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COTTISFORD WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Michael Peck 2021

The memorial can be found in St. Mary the Virgin Church, Village Main Street, Cottisford. It takes the form of two, wall mounted brass plaques with engraved inscriptions and names infilled in black enamel paint, the World War 1 plaque sits above the World War 2 plaque, both having borders but the World War 1 plaque has an ornate order. There are ten names listed for World War 1 and one for World War 2.

Cottisford Parish - WW1 and WW2
© (WMR-31375)

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN
GIVEN IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND IN THE CAUSE OF RIGHT
AND JUSTICE IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918, A.D.

BLABY	John	Private 26607, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry, formerly 20401 Royal Berkshire Regiment. Killed in action 23rd April 1917. Son of Joseph and Alice Blaby (nee Blake). Born 1886 Cottisford, enlisted Warwick and resident Coventry Warwickshire. Commemorated La Chaudiere Military Cemetery. Plot VI. Row D. Grave 10.
BLABY	William	Rifleman 40665, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, formerly 11504 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action 1st April 1917. Son of Joseph and Alice Blaby (nee Blake). Born 1889 Cottisford and enlisted Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Commemorated Fins New British Cemetery. Plot VI. Row F. Grave 16.
BLENCOWE	Ernest Alfred Victor	Private 143575, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 5840 Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 15th April 1918. Son of John and Harriet Blencowe (nee Moss, now wife of Eli Massey). Born 1884 Cottisford and enlisted Brackley Northamptonshire. Commemorated Le Grand Beaumart British Cemetery. Plot III. Row G. Grave 1.
CROSS	Allan Dennis	Private G/23014, 10th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, formerly 262095 Army Service Corps. Killed in action 20th September 1917. Son of John Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Cross (nee Cripps). Born 1895 Cottisford, enlisted Oxford and resident Cottisford. Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial. Panel 14 to 17.
CROSS	Leeman John	Private 70751. Berkshire Yeomanry. Killed in action Palestine 27th November 1917. Son of John Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Cross (nee Cripps). Born 3rd September 1897 Cottisford, enlisted Reading, Berkshire, and resident Brackley, Northamptonshire. Commemorated Jerusalem Memorial. Panel 4.
FARRER	[Patrick Stephen] Henry	Driver 61478, 94th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died pneumonia 26th November 1918. Son of Robert Luke and Julia Ann Farrer (nee Crawley). Husband of Kate Elizabeth Farrer (described as spinster, nee Sawyers on army record but appears to be Elizabeth (nee Sawyer) widow of Samuel Pipe Pettit). Born 1881 Chelsea, London, and enlisted 12th February 1915, resident Cottisford Kennels (as 1911). Commemorated St Sever Cemetery. Section S. Plot III. Row B. Grave 2.
GASKIN	Sidney	Lance Corporal 8468, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Mesopotamia 27th September 1916. Son of Joseph and Mary Lucy Gaskin (nee Durrands). Stepson of Emma Gaskin (nee Williams, widow of Thomas Henry A Bowen). Born 1888 Juniper Hill, enlisted Oxford (pre war regular soldier 1911) and resident Juniper Hill. Commemorated Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery. Plot XXI. Row W. Grave 28.
HARRIS	Hubert	Sapper 34583, 26th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 25th April 1916. Son of Aloysius and Susannah Harris (former name unknown, marriage not proven). Born 1893 Cottisford, enlisted St Pancras, London, and resident Hardwick. Commemorated St Patricks Cemetery. Plot III. Row B. Grave 23.
PEVERELL	Ernest	Gunner 62381, 96th Battery, 19th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died 50th General Hospital Salonika 27th October 1918. Son of Ernest Thomas Peverell (husband of Alice as baptism, or Annie or A F as census and only corresponding marriage is Alice Frizby Reeve but that in 1932). Born 1896 Bletchington, enlisted Oxford and resident Cottisford. Commemorated Mikra British Cemetery. Grave 682.
PEVERELL	William [Ernest]	Private 230170. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. Died 23rd February 1919 (Soldiers Effects has while on ‘demobilisation leave’). Son of Ernest Thomas Peverell (husband of Alice as baptism, or Annie or A F as census and only corresponding marriage is Alice Frizby Reeve but that in 1932). Husband of Mary Jane Peverell (nee Wright). Born 28th October 1889 Woolwich. No trace SDGW or CWGC and commemoration unknown.
TIMMS	Edwin	[Edward Timms as Canadian attestation record]. Private 81889. 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Died 26th April 1916. Son of Albert and Emma Timms (nee Dipper). Born 12th September 1879 Cottisford and enlisted 12th December 1914 Canada (noted as ’12 years previous service with West Yorkshire Regiment’). Commemorated Woods Cemetery. II.F.3.
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." ECCLESIASTICUS. XLIV.14. 1939-1945
WATTS	Ronald John	Guardsman 2626522. 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died between 7th and 9th February 1944. Son of George James and Ellen Watts (nee Taylor). Husband of Edna R Watts (nee Mitchell) of Southwick WIL. Born 1919 (born and enlisted Northamptonshire as Army Roll of Honour, birth actually recorded Oxfordshire). Commemorated Cassino Memorial. Panel 3. Note: not found in area, verified by father born Juniper Hill.

Last updated 11 September, 2022

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