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First World War in Headington & Marston

St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston

Please follow the pointer above if you would like to see a biography of all the men on the memorial

War memorial, Old Marston Church

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF
THE MEN OF MARSTON
WHO DIED GLORIOUSLY
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914–1918

Major REGINALD D’ARCY ANDERSON, R.G.A.

PTE ERNEST VICTOR BIOVOIS, Gloucs.

PTE ALBERT JOHN DREWITT, O.B.L.I.*

PTE ARTHUR DREWITT, O.B.L.I.*

LCE CPL GEORGE HERBERT CUMMINGS, O.B.L.I.**

PTE JOHN EADLE, O.B.L.I.

LCE CPL ALBERT EDWARD HAYNES, R.Berks.*

PTE HERBERT GEORGE HAYNES, R.F.*

DVR RICHARD CHARLES KNIBBS, R.H.A.

CPL ERNEST ALFRED WARD, O.B.L.I.*

PTE HENRY GEORGE WARD, O.B.L.I.*

BOMR CHARLES HENRY WEBB, R.G.A.

Their name liveth for evermore.

* Three pairs of brothers

** Out of alphabetical order on the memorial

Second World War

The extension underneath the memorial lists the three Old Marston men who died in the Second World War. There is more about them here

Outside the church, the war memorial cross shown below simply gives the dates of the First World War.

Old Marston war memorial

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