8499 Pte Charlie Stallwood, 1st Bn, Ox and Bucks LI

8499 Private Charlie Stallwood of the 1st Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry was killed in action on the 22nd November 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial in Iraq.

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Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission8499 Pte Charlie Smallwood, 1st Bn, Ox and Bucks LI

Lt Keith People, 2nd Bn, Ox and Bucks LI

Lieutenant Keith People of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 9th November 1916.

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

8546 Pte Maurice E Hirons, 2nd Bn, Ox and Bucks LI

8546 Private Maurice Edward Hirons of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, died of wounds on the 7th November 1914. He was one of 722 British Army officers and men to die on this date.

Maurice was born in Bicester and he enlisted in Oxford in late September or early October 1907. He was therefore possibly coming to the end of his seven years service with the colours when Britain went to war in August 1914. His medal index card indicates that he arrived in France on the 14th September 1914 whilst the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he has no known grave and is recorded on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11881 L/Cpl Edwin W Kittle, 6th Bn, Ox & Bucks LI

11881 Lance-Corporal Edwin William Kittle of the 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 9th October 1916. He was born in Pontlatlyn, Glamorganshire and was still living there when he enlisted at Rugby in late August or early September 1914.

At the time of his death he was 27 years old, the son of William and Eva Kittle of Osborne Villas, South End, Pontlatlyn, Cardiff. He is buried in the Guards' Cemetery at Lesboeufs.

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Maj Bertram C Parr, Ox and Bucks

Major Bertram Chambre Parr of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, died on the 3rd September 1918. At the time of his death he was attached to the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. He is buried in Vaulx Hill Cemetery.

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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14048 Pte John F Spilsbury, 1st Bn, Wilts Regt

14048 Private John Frederick Spilsburyof the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, died on the 4th July 1916.

John was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, and was living in Birmingham at the outbreak of the war. He enlisted there in September 1914, originally joining the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, but tranferring to the Wiltshire Regiment probably in December 1914 or January 1915. He arrived overseas in France on the 21st September 1915 but died in England on the 4th July the following year. Soldiers Died in The Great War simply states that he "died" which almost certainly means that he died as a result of sickness. He is buried in Birmingham's Yardley Cemetery.

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Soldiers Died in The Great War
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6865 Pte Walter Thomas Kell, 2nd Bn, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

790 British soldiers died on the 21st October 1914 and Walter Kell was one of these men. He was 6865 Pte Walter Thomas Kell of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry.

Walter certainly had been a regular soldier who had originally joined the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry in 1901. Unless he had extended his period of service with the army he would have completed his seven years with the Colours and five on the Reserve by the time Britain went to war. Nevertheless, he must have been in khaki again pretty soon after 4th August 1914 because ten days later he was in France.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 31 years old and the brother of Mrs. Rose Woollett of 14 Norcutt Road, Twickenham in Middlesex.

Walter Kell has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11211 Pte Frank Dence, 2nd Bn, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry

11211 Pte Frank Dence of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was killed in action on this day, 27th August, in 1915; one of 175 British soldiers to die on this day.

Frank was born in Wadhurst, Sussex and gave Wadhurst as his place of residence when he enlisted in late August or early September 1914. He enlisted at Chesham in Buckinghamshire. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 25 years old and the son of Edmund and Ellen Dence of Moseham Hill, Wadhurst in Sussex.

Frank Dence's medal index card indicates that he arrives overseas in France on 27th April 1915 and he is buried in the Guards Gemetery at Windy Corner, Cuinchy; grave reference II.C.6.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission