BERKSHIRE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT FORUM

 

Berkshire War Memorials Project

 

WEST BERKSHIRE - THATCHAM

 

 

Thatcham Monument (at corner of Bath Road and Brownfield Road)

WW1 - 116 names on marble cross (WM5072)

WW2 -  34 names on marble cross

 

Names recorded by Alan Hutchins June 1997

 

St Mary's Church

WW1 - 103 names on framed parchment

WW2 - 34 names on framed parchment

WW1 Turner - d1/10/1915

 

Names recorded by Alan Hutchins Aug 1999

 

BWM 4052 - 26/5/2011

 

All memorials in Thatcham

Place

Location

Description

ID

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Allen)

WB273

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Cook)

WB274

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

Grave, CWGC (Davies)

WB275

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Dodd)

WB276

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Fry)

WB277

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Haines)

WB278

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Hawkins)

WB279

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

CWGC Marker (Ralph)

WB280

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

Grave, CWGC (Rutter)

WB281

Thatcham

London Rd Cemetery

Grave (Rutter)

WB282

Thatcham

Memorial Hall car park

Stone cross

WB035

Thatcham

St Mary's Church

Marble plaque

WB271

Thatcham

St Mary's Church

Framed roll of honour

WB272



 

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB273

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Allen)


Text:
Stoker 1st Class RN K/29689 / HMS “Kildorrey” / 6th December 1918 Age 21 // Lest we forget

 

Thatcham

 

Memorial alt=Memorial v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">

ID:

WB274

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Cook)


Text:
135913 1st Private / A F Cook / Royal Air Force / 20th July 1918 Age 23 // “Jesus said / I am the resurrection / and the life” / St John 11:25

Thatcham

 

Memorial alt=Memorial v:shapes="_x0000_i1027">

ID:

WB275

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

Grave, CWGC (Davies)


Text:
Treasured memory / of Cpl George Ian / Frederick Davies / RAF / (Gidge) / accidently killed / Oct 26th 1941 / aged 26 years // There is no parting / beyond the grave / we shall see him / smiling when we . meet again / Mum and Dad

 

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB276

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Dodd)


Text:
8/10086 Private / A G Dodd / 35th Training Reserve Bn / 10th May 1917

Thatcham

 

Memorial alt=Memorial v:shapes="_x0000_i1029">

ID:

WB277

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Fry)


Text:
5141 Private / A A Fry / Worcestershire Regiment / 27th November 1916

Thatcham

 

Memorial alt=Memorial v:shapes="_x0000_i1030">

ID:

WB278

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Haines)


Text:
22330 Private / A J Haines / Royal Berkshire Regiment / 29th October 1918

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB279

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Hawkins)


Text:
4288 Private / G Hawkins / Royal Berkshire Regiment / 6th June 1915

Thatcham

 

Memorial alt=Memorial v:shapes="_x0000_i1032">

ID:

WB280

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

CWGC Marker (Ralph)


Text:
CWGC Stone
1829139 Private / L W Ralph / Army Catering Corps / 21st August 1947
Stone vase
Remembered / always / Les

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB281

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

Grave, CWGC (Rutter)


Text:
In affectionate memory of / Sergt Percy Rutter / died of wounds Oct 14th 1915 aged 32 years / Also of / Lce Corpl Cecil Rutter / killed in France Feb 17th 1917 / aged 23 years

 

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB282

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

London Rd Cemetery

OS Map Ref:

SU525675

Description:

Grave (Rutter)


Text:
In loving memory of / Vera Rutter / Died Jan 18th 1918 Aged 20 years / Also of / Corpl Gordon Rutter / killed in France Aug 22nd 1917 / Aged 21 years

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB035

UKNIWM:

7810

Location:

Memorial Hall car park

OS Map Ref:

SU510670

Description:

Stone cross


Text:
Panel
To the / Glory of God / and in / Proud Memory / of the Men / who gave / their Lives / for their King / and Country / in the / Great War of / 1914-1918

Panel
They shall not grow old as we who are / left grow old. Age shall not weary /
them nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in / the morning we shall remember them.

Panel
Erected 1919 / Restored 1950 & 1990

Panel
Royal Navy
H A W Back
O Jennings
G A Southey
W H Stevens
Army
A Amor
H B Allwood
A Bew
F Bew
L Bew
F Bosley
H Bosley
H Bradbury
H Breach
T G Breach
A Browning
W Q Butler
A Campon
A E Chandler
A Cook

Panel
E Cook
T Cook
W Cook
T W Couzens
W E Couzens
G Denness
H Denness
R Diggins
A Dodd
J Durbridge
D Dyer
E Eldred
H Farley
A G Fisher
E Franklin
F Franklin
H French
A Fry
E Fry
F Fyfield
A Gale
H Glastonbury

Panel
G Gibbs
W Gibbs
G Goodchild
J Green
L Green
G Haines
J Haines
E Hall
G Hawkins
B A Headlong
F H Headlong
W Headlong
M Holloway
W J Howells
A House
F J Hunt
L J Hunt
V J Hutchins
W Hyde
H V Jenkins
J J Jenkins
R F Jenkins
F Lawrence

Panel
G Lawrence
W Long
F Marchant
H Mace
J Mace
A Millsom
H Nailor
H G Nailor
J Nightingale
T J Nightingale
J Pearce
W Pearce
W J Pike
F J Prouting
A Pinnock
E Pope
C Powell
J Preston
W Preston
A T Quelch
C J Quelch
C Radbourne
C Rutter
Panel
G Rutter
P H Rutter
G Rogers
F Rolfe
J Rolfe
F Rose
H Rosier
W Savage
S M Simpson
E G Stevens MM
W Street
A B Turner VC
J Thorn
D Tidbury
G Tull
C Wallington
F Westall
A Wheeler
H Wigmore
H Witts

Panel
1939-1945
Royal Navy
J F S Deness
J G Foster
H F Hunt
A E Jackson
A T Newson
F G Newson

Royal Air Force
K F Bartholomew VR
P R Bosley VR
B F Brooks VR
G I F Davies
F R Harmsworth-Smith
W G Hartland VR
B G Radbourne VR

Panel
1939-1945
Army
S J Aldridge
W E Beasley
K C Bolton
R A Claridge
A G Collins
H J Collins
H W Collins
P R T Daniel
A W French
W T Heaver
H C Hill
W G Holmes
R P Looker
A W J Lovelock
E I Maggs
J E T Munn
M Parker
J V Pearce
C D Radbourne
H W Ralph
E H P Silvester

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB271

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

St Mary's Church

OS Map Ref:

SU516672

Description:

Marble plaque


Text:
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of / Alexander Buller Turner VC / 2nd Lieut Royal Berkshire Regt born 22nd May 1893 / wounded in action at Vermelles whe he was / awarded the Victoria Cross. Died 1st Oct 1915 aged 22 / buried in the military cemetery Chocques France / Love - Joy - Peace - Longsuffering - Gentleness - Goodness - Faith

Thatcham

 

Memorial

ID:

WB272

UKNIWM:

 

Location:

St Mary's Church

OS Map Ref:

SU516672

Description:

Framed roll of honour


Text:
To the Glory of God and in proud / memory of the men of this parish / who gave their lives for King and / Country in the Great War 1914-1918 / The reredos in this church has been / erected by their friends & neighbours.
Royal Navy
Chaplain
Rev H A W Back
AB
J H Allen
O Jennings
G Southey
W H Stevens
Army
Second-Lieutenants
A B Turner VC
H M Glastonbury
Sergeants
A Amor
P H Rutter
Corporals
F Marchant
G T Rutter
Lance-Corporals
F J Prouting
C Rutter
Privates
F Allen
H B Allwood
A Bew
F Bosley
H J Bosley
H Bradbury
T G Breach
A Browning
W Q Butler
A Capon
A E Chandler
A F Cook
H T Cook
W A Cook
T W Cousens
W E Cousens
G E Denness
H Denness
R Diggins
A Dodd
J Durbridge
D Dyer
E Eldred
H Farley
A G Fisher
E Franklin
F Franklin
H French
A A Fry
E J Fry
F A G Fyfield
A Gale
C Gibbs
W Gibbs
C Goodchild
J Green
L Green
G Haines
A J Haines
Gnr E Hall
G Hawkins
B A Headlong
F H Headlong
G W Headlong
M L Holloway
W J Howells
A Howse
F J Hunt
L J Hunt
V J Hutchins
H V Jenkins
R J Jenkins
F J Jenkins
F C G Lawrence
W Long
H C Mace
J Mace
A Millsom
H Nailor
H G Nailor
J Nightingale
T J Nightingale
A J Pearce
W J Pearce
W J Pike
A Pinnock
E Pope
C Powell
J Preston
W T Preston
A T Quelch
C J Quelch
C Radbourne
G Rogers
F Rolfe
J Rolfe
F Rose
H Rosier
W Savager
Gnr S M Simpson
E j Stevens
W Street
J Thorne
D Tidbury
C W Wallington
F Westall
A Wheeler
W J Wigmore
H Witts

The screen of St Anne’s Chapel was erected / in memory of those who gave their lives / in the World War 1939-1945
S J Aldridge
K F Bartholomew
W E Beasley
K C Bolton
P R J Bosley
B F Brooks
R A Claridge
A G Collins
H W Collins
P R T Daniel
G I F Davies
J F S Deness
J G Foster
A W French
F R Harmsworth-Smith
W G Hartland
W T Heaver
H C Hill
W G Holmes
H F Hunt
E A Jackson
E HP Silvester
R P Looker
A W J Lovelock
E I Maggs
J E T Munn
A T Newson
F G Newson
M Parker
J V Pearce
B G Radbourne
C D Radbourne
H W Ralph
“To you from falling hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high”