Second World War in Headington and Marston

Links on the war dead listed below are to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
Where this provides the age of the person who died, it is given in brackets afterwards.

St Andrew’s Church, Old Headington

Five men died: two were in the army, two in the air force, and one in the navy. They are commemorated on an addition to the First World War Memorial on a wall inside the church

St Andrew’s War Memorial

 

George William Coggins (21)

Frank Armistice Goodchild (22)

Alfred Cyril Hudson (19)

Reginald Morris (28)

Gordon Robert Sugar (22)

See the list at the foot of this page of people living on the outskirts of St Andrew’s parish who also died in the Second World War

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry

Thirty-one men died: eighteen were in the army, nine in the air force, and four in the navy. Unlike the dead of the First World War, their names are not engraved anywhere at the church, but a stained-glass window by Sir Ninian Comper, installed in 1951, honours their collective memory. The names below are taken from the Quarry Roll of Honour, a large board which probably stood in the church during the war; but this list does not appear to have been complete.

War Memorial, Quarry
“1939–1945” was added to the First World War Memorial in Quarry churchyard

East window
Above: Second World War window, with figure of risen Christ, with the
text below reading: “Dedicated in memory of the men of this parish
who gave their lives for their country 1939–1945”.

 

Norman Oswald Allen (age 19)

Dennis Herbert Bagnall (age 21)
See his grave in Headington Cemetery

Tom Beament (age 30)
See Lime Walk Methodist Church below

Thomas Henry Boyce (age 24)

Phillip Gordon Burrell (age 22)

Walter John Cox (age 24)
See his grave in Headington Cemetery

Glyndwr Vincent Fisher (age 22)

Norman Simms Flowers (age 31)

Colin Raymond Glover (age 27)

Patrick Leonard Goddard (age 20)
Osney Cemetery

Aubrey Griffin (age 19)
See Lime Walk Methodist Church below

Arthur Fairlie Hamilton (age 23)

Charles Bertram James Hay (age 23)

Edward John Higgs (age 36)

Frederick Harry Hooper (age 25)

Bernard Noel Jones (age 29)

Alan Anthony Kimber (age 25)

Charles Arthur Kyme (age 27)

Peter Lauriston Charles Melville Lee (age 21)

Reginald Morris (age 28)
See St Andrew’s Church above

Norman Patterson

Cyril George Pead (age 24)

Frank Pike (age 22)

Donald Reid [??]
[A Mrs M. J. Reid lived at Rock Edge]

Robert Chaffer Richards (age 22)
and his brother
Walter Hughes Richards (“Peter”) (age 18)

Hubert Horace Richardson (age 22)

William Arthur Stannard (age 30)

Dudley Ralph Wicks (age 20)

Albert John Wharton (age 30):
see grave below

Lionel James Winstone (age 36)

 

 

See the list at the foot of this page of people who appear to have lived in Quarry and died in the Second World War but who are not listed on the Holy Trinity Roll of Honour

Grave of Wharton
Above: Grave in the Coriano Ridge War Cemetery (XVII, L, 4) of Albert John Wharton
of Headington Quarry, taken by Pat Bowler, whose mother was his cousin

All Saints’ Church, Highfield

All Saints’ Church has no list of its war dead of the Second World War. Please email if you can confirm the name of anyone in the parish who died.

All Saints war memorial
“1939-1945” has been added to the stone base of the All Saints’ Church
First World War Memorial, which has no names of the dead

Bullock window

 

The following men definitely lived in All Saints’ parish according to Kelly’s Directory; but please see the list at the foot of this page for many more men whose addresses in Headington cannot be established, as most of these are likely to have lived in Highfield parish.

 

Michael Harry Bullock (age 21)
See his memorial, bottom left

Robert Emil Geoffrey Dawson (age 29)

Hubert James Edmunds (age 38)

Ronald Gould
See his grave in Headington Cemetery

George A. Frederick Hewlett (age 34)

Ernest Leslie Lee (age 23)
See his grave in Headington Cemetery

Theodore Narishkin (age 20)
See his grave in Headington Cemetery

Eric Stanley Raymond Norgrove (age 22)

Donald Frederick Phipps (age 22)

Louis Arthur Trinder (age 19)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left: This stained-glass window in All Saints’ Church reads:

”In loving memory of Michael Harry Bullock, Lieut. RTR, killed in action crossing the River Aller, Germany, 13 April 1945, aged 21 years”

 

Cowley St James (St Francis of Assisi): Bulan Road area

Kelly’s Directory shows that ten of the Headington men who died lived in the Bulan Road area of Headington. This was in the parish of Cowley St James, which had a chapel of ease at St Francis of Assisi Church in Hollow Way. Five were in the army, three in the air force, and two in the navy:

Lime Walk Methodist Church

Two men died (and both are also listed on the Quarry memorial roll). They were in the air force, and each has his own plaque on the wall of the church.

Beament and Griffin

 

 

 

 

Thomas Hubert (“Tom”) Beament (age 30)

 

[Ernest] Aubrey Griffin (age 19)

St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston

Three men died: one was in the army, one in the navy, and one in the marines. Their names were added on an extension to the lower end of the First World War memorial inside the church

Old Marston war memorial

 

Frederick Gordon Matthews (age 19)

Henry Bylett Simms (age 31)
[misspelt “Bylette” on memorial]

Dennis William Ward (age 18)
[This could be the same man as Dennis Ward listed on New Marston War Memorial below]

New Marston War Memorial, Marston Road

Twelve men died (of whom two appear also to be on Old Marston war memorial): six were in the army, four in the air force, one in the navy, and one in the marines. Their names were inscribed on the left-hand side of the First World War memorial.

New Marston Memorial

Names of Second World War dead of New Marston are added to
the left-hand of the First World War Memorial

Arthur Kerry appears to have been omitted initially, as his name
has been added to the horizontal part of the step below

 

Tom Bailey  [??]  

Philip James Crank (age 22)
Marston Cemetery

Walter Edward Giles 
Rose Hill Cemetery

Gordon Hern (age 19)

Arthur Thomas Kerry (age 38)

Ernest Mackenzie [??]  
[A Richard James Mackenzie lived at 59 Ferry Road]

Frederick Gordon Matthews (age 19)
See Old Marston memorial above

George Arthur Thomas (age 33)

Norman Wakeley (age 20)

Dennis Ward [??]
[but see Old Marston memorial above]

[Sydney] George Wiggins (age 30)

Kenneth Eric Young (age 24)

Other Headington Second World War dead not listed above

St Andrew’s parish

The following people who died appear to have lived on the outskirts of St Andrew’s parish, outside Old Headington village (addresses obtained from Kelly’s Directory for 1945 and 1947)

Holy Trinity (Quarry) Parish

The following people are not listed on the Holy Trinity Roll of Honour but appear to have lived within its parish. Most of them appear to have lived outside the old village itself (addresses obtained from Kelly’s Directory for 1945 and 1947)

All Saints (Highfield) Parish

The address of the following men from Headington who died in the Second World war cannot be established, but the majority of them are likely to have lived in All Saints’ parish:

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