Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget
British Legion
The Royal British Legion

MEN OF THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE OF THE
GENERAL POST OFFICE WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 - Detailed information
Compiled and Copyright © Michael Atkinson - 2017

The memorial is to be found as a wall mounted tablet on the found floor, next to the lifts, within the Royal Mail, Finsbury Dials, Finsbury, Islington, London and was originally housed at the Post Office Headquarters, St Martins Le Grand, City Of London. It takes the form of a rectangular, stone, tablet in a wood frame with a triangular pediment with a incised inscriptionas well as two laurel branches with a laurel wreath in the centre that are carved in relief on the pediment. There are 56 names listed for World War 1 in the form of initials and surname.
Photograph from Imperial War Museum National Inventory of War Memorials

TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE OF
THE GENERAL POST OFFICE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 18

ADLER A W
No further information currently available
ALEXANDER G H
No further information currently available
ALEXANDER Henry Talbot
Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action 1 July 1916. In the 1911 census he ws the son of Alfred Alexander (a widower), aged 22, born Paddington, London, a Registry Assistant with the G.P.O., resident 90 Fernhead Road Paddington W, Paddington, London & Middlesex. Buried in REDAN RIDGE CEMETERY NO.2, BEAUMONT-HAMEL, Somme, France. Row C. Grave 8.
ALLUM G
No further information currently available
BAILEY W D
No further information currently available
BLACKMORE J
No further information currently available
BREMER George Gerald
Rifleman 371903, 1st/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment. Killed in action 21 May 1916. Resident Rotherhithe, enlisted London. Son of Mr. G. R. Bremer, of 8, Tissington St., Rotherhithe, London. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 10.
BROWN P A
No further information currently available
CHECKETTS John
Sapper 27783, Postal Section, Royal Engineers. Died 6 November 1914. Aged 42. Husband of Ellen Checketts, of 23, Algiers Rd., Ladywell, London. IN the 1911 census he was aged 37, born Buchbury, Wolverhaton, married to Ellen, he was a Registry assistant 2nd class G.P.O., resident 60 Montem Road Forest Hill S E, Lewisham, London & Kent. Buried in STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE, Seine-Maritime, France. Division 14. Row D. Grave 2.
COKE Langton Sacheverell
Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, and Reserve of Officers. Killed in action 31 October 1914, Aged 36. Son of the late Col. W. L. Coke, J.P., D.L., of Brookhill Hall, Derbyshire; husband of Dorothy Sacheverell Coke, of Brookhill Hall, Derbyshire. Listed as Langton Sachwell Coke in the 1911 census he was married to married to Diorothy Maye Coke, aged 33, born Cape Colony, South Africa, Secretary to committee on analization on customs and excise, resident 19, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington Gore, London S.W., St Margaret and St John, London & Middlesex. Listed in the Civil Service Commission Appointments, Promotions and Transfers 18 April 1912, he was appointed to the Board of Trade as Assistant Divisional Officer in the labour exchange and unemployment insurance branch of the Labour Department [The London Gazette 3 May 1912, issue 28604, page 3195]. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium. Panel 11.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 2, page 74:

COKE, LANGTON SACHEVERELL, Lieut., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, eldest s. of the late Col. Coke, of Brookhill Hall. Alfreton, co. Derby, J.P., D.L., 4th Light Dragoons ; served for a time with the Royal Warwickshire Regt., joining the Irish Guards in 1901: subsequently served for two years with the Egyptian Army ; retired in 1908, when he joined the Special Reserve ; rejoined his old regiment on the outbreak of the European War ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 11 Sept. 1914. and was killed in action at Zillebeke. near Ypres, 31 Oct. following. He m. in Nov. 1908, Dorothy Huntingford, R.N.. and had two children: Roger Sacheverell, b. Oct. 1912, and Elizabeth Joan, b. Aug. 1909.

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916, Volume 1, page 82-83:

LIEUTENANT LANGTON SACHEVERELL COKE, J.P., 1st BATTN. IRISH GUARDS, RESERVE OF OFFICERS, owner of Brookhill Hall, Alfreton, Derbyshire. was the eldest son of the late Colonel Coke, J.P., D.L., 4th Light Dragoons, of that place, whom he succeeded in 1913. This property has been in the family direct from father to son for twenty - three generations ; one of Lieutenant Coke's ancestors was Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to Charles the First. Lieutenant. Coke was born on the 25th January, 1878, and was educated in Germany and France.

He joined the Irish Guards in 1901, after serving for a short time with the Warwickshire Regiment. He was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army for two years, and in 1908 he left his Regiment, joining the Special Reserve. Intending to take up a political career, he obtained the appointment of Private Secretary to Mr. Hobhouse, Postmaster-General in 1913. On the outbreak of the Great War he rejoined his old regiment, and went to France on the 11th September.

He was killed at Klein Zillebeke, near Ypres, on the 31st October, 1914, a critical day on which the Germans nearly broke through our lines.

Lieutenant Coke, who was a member of the Travellers' and Guards' Clubs, was a good big game shot, fisherman, and motorist.

He married in November. 1908, Dorothy Maye, daughter of Captain George Huntingford, R.N., and left a daughter, Elizabeth Joan, born August, 1909, and a son, Roger Sacheverell, born October, 1912, who succeeds to the Brookhill estate.
COOK G F
No further information currently available
COPESTAKE P H
No further information currently available
CROSS Charles George Oxborough
Sergeant 530814, 2nd/15th Battalion (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. Died in United Kingdom 1 March 1919. Aged 24. Son of George and Millicent Edith Cross (nee Oxborough), of 5, President St., Goswell Rd., London. Awarded Barbatie si Creduita, 2nd Class (Roumania). Listed in Civil Service Commission Appointments, Promotions and Transfers on 8 December 1911 as new position was Assistant Clerk (Abstractors), Post Office [The London Gazette, 2 January 1912, issue 28568, page 37]. Buried in BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey. Plot VI. Row D. Grave 12.
DAVIS M O A
No further information currently available
DOCKER G
No further information currently available
DOVEY F A
No further information currently available
ELLIS W M
No further information currently available
FLETCHER H J
No further information currently available
FRANCIS W J
No further information currently available
GEORGE L A
No further information currently available
GLENNON Francis Henry
Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion attached 8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action 16 November 1916. Aged 35. Son of Christopher Glennon and his wife Isabel Margaret Blake. Volunteered at outbreak of war. In the 1911 censsu he was aged 29, born Torquay, Devonshire, a Clerk, boarding at 79 Claremont Road Highgate N, Hornsey, Middlesex.In the Londn gazeete 2 October 1903, issue 27602, page 6034, he was appointed secretarys office London of the Post Office. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme. France. Pier and Face 6 C.
GREEN P L
No further information currently available
GURNEY H
No further information currently available
HARRIES T J
No further information currently available
HEWITT L V
No further information currently available
HOWLETT F G
No further information currently available
HUNT R A
No further information currently available
INGRAM S O
No further information currently available
JAMES P E
No further information currently available
JARVIS J H
No further information currently available
JAYS W C E
No further information currently available
KEMP A H
No further information currently available
KENCHINGTON George William Ambrose
Private 3223, 1st/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles). Killed in action 17 September 1916. Aged 23. Resident Islington, enlisted London. Son of George Ambrose Kenchington and Catherine Constance Kenchington, of 54, Prebend St., Islington, London. Assistant Clerk in the Secretary's Office, G.P.O. Appointed Event date 19 February 1913 as Assistant clerk abstractor, Post Office, in the The London Gazette, 4 March 1913, page 650. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme. France. Pier and Face 13 C.
LE MESSURIER C C
No further information currently available
LOWE E A
No further information currently available
MACLAGAN T D O
No further information currently available
MAJOR O J
No further information currently available
MARTIN J G
No further information currently available
MAYNARD W H
No further information currently available
McCULLAGH Valentine Joseph
[Listed as McCullach on SDGW] Private 1594, 1st/15th (County fo London) Battalion (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. Killed in action 15 September 1916. Aged 22. Born Canning Town, West Ham, resident East Ham, enlisted Somerset House. Son of Alfred Joseph and Margaret McCullagh, of 76, Abbey Rd., West Ham Lane, Stratford, London. Appointed Assistant Clerk Abstractor in the Post Office 3 July 1912, listed in The London Gazette, 2 August 1912, issue 28632. page 5733. In the 1911 census he was aged 17, born Canning Gown, Essex, son of Alfred and Margaret McCullagh, a Boy Clerk in the Civil Service, resident 17 Boleyn Road, East Ham, London & Essex. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme. France. Pier and Face 13 C.
NATRISS H A
No further information currently available
ODELL C
No further information currently available
ODELL H A
No further information currently available
OSBORNE F G V
No further information currently available
PARKER A W
No further information currently available
PLUMB C P
No further information currently available
PULLING E L
No further information currently available
QUARTERMAN E H
No further information currently available
RALPH H F
No further information currently available
REACH M
No further information currently available
SHEARS E H
No further information currently available
STEADMAN S E B
No further information currently available
STUART A D
No further information currently available
TURNER H S
No further information currently available
WILSON F H
No further information currently available
WOMBELL James Horace
Private 3746, "A" Company, 15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. Killed in action 7 October 1916. Aged 21. Resident Cubitt Town, enlisted Somerset House. Son of James and Amelia Wombell, of 105, Manchester Rd., Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs, London. In the 1911 censsu he was the son of James and Amelia Wombell, aged 16, born Poplar, Middlesex, a Boy Clerk i the Civil Service, resident 105 Manchester Road, Poplar Borough, London & Middlesex. Listed in The London Gazette 3 January 1911, page 21, as a Temporary Boy Clerk. Listed in the Edinburgh Gazette, 8 July 1913, page 735, as at Post Office: Registry Assistant in the Secretary's Office, London. Buried in WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot V. Row D. Grave 32.

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY BY THEIR COLLEAGUES

Last updated 6 November, 2024

Friends of the War Memorials
War Memorials Trust
Main page
Commonweath War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Copyright © Roll-of-Honour.com 2002- | GDPR Cookies
Email: webmaster@roll-of-honour.com