Biographies

Biographies of Bushey and Oxhey Servicemen who died in The Great War

Over one hundred years have passed since the start of The Great War and information about some servicemen who gave their lives for their country is sadly brief. These biographies were compiled by the Bushey First World War Commemoration Project specifically to form part of the social history of Bushey and Oxhey and to act as a starting point for further individual family research. The Project has gone to great lengths to ensure accuracy but inevitably there may be errors and omissions. If you would like to make any corrections or additions please contact info@busheyworldwarone.org.uk

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Research sources include:

Commonwealth War Grave Commission website: www.cwgc.org

Family History websites: www.ancestry.com & www.findmypast.com

The National Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

The Times Digital Archive: www.uk-family-history.com/The Times

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: www.oxforddnb.com

National Roll of The Great War volume V

Hertfordshire Monumental Inscriptions: Bushey, the Parish of St James

Kelly’s Directories, 1914 – 20

Peacock’s Watford Directory, 1915

West Herts and Watford Observer, 1914 -19
Watford Illustrated, 1914 – 16

Absentee Voters’ List for Bushey and Oxhey, 1918

Bushey Parish Magazines, 1914 – 1919

Oxhey Parish Magazines, 1912 – 16

ABBOTT John Henry

AIRY Arthur Langton

ALEXANDER Charles John

ALLEN James Berry

ALLEN William Thomas

ANDREWS John Edward

ANDREWS Percival Lionel

ANDREWS Walter Ernest

ANTHONY Henry Godfrey W

APPLEBY Stanley Ralph

ASHBY Frederick J

ASHBY Percy James

ASHFORTH Walter Robert

ATKINS Bernard Owen

AYLING Edward Stephen

BARE Arnold Edwin

BARNARD Alfred H B

BATCHELOR Henry Joseph

BATCHELOR Henry William

BATCHELOR Joseph

BATES Victor William

BEAL Arthur Reginald

BEAUMONT George

BEESLEY William Arthur

BEEVOR Thomas E

BENNETT William

BETHELL Frank Harry

BILLINGER Hector Fussell

BINYON Harry Hickman

BIRCH Harold Frederick

BIRD William Millar

BIRKINSHAW, Ronald

BLACKWELL Charles

BLACKWELL William Gordon

BLIGHT Horace Vincent

BLOOM Frederick

BOOTH John Lionel Calvert

BOOTH William Leslie

BORRETT Herbert George

BRANDON William James

BROMFIELD Kenneth

BROWN Frederic Holifield

BROWN Reginald Rodbard

BUNNAGE William Wilberforce

BURCH William Henry

BUTLIN Sidney Frank

BYRNE Frank Arthur

CAREY John Herbert

CARPENTER, Walter

CARTER Leslie G W

CHANCE Eustace George St Clair

CHATFIELD Reginald Frank

CHEDGEY Herbert

CHEESEMAN Gerald

CHILD Charles A

CLARK William Alfred

COLLINS Frederick

CONQUEST Louis Joseph

COUZENS William

COX Harold Henry

CROUCHER George

CROUCHER William Robert

CRUICKSHANK Andrew John Tuke

CRUICKSHANK Donald Edward

CULLING Harold William

CUTHBERTSON Edward Hedley

CUTHBERTSON Hugh

DAWES Sidney Francis

DEAN William James

DEAYTON George Thomas

DE BEGER George Montague

DEMMERY Joseph Samuel

DENMAN Frank Christopher

DOCKER Alfred Edgar

DRAKE Henry Charles

DUDLEY Noel Montagu Charles

EPGRAVE Reginald

EVANS Alfred William

EVANS Charles Albert

EVANS William T G

EYDEN Lawrence Robert

FARMER Archibald Onslow

FASSNIDGE James

FEAVIOUR William Clacy

FELCE Hubert Stanley Jose

FELMINGHAM Ernest Edward

FIELD William Edward

FITCH Alfred Joseph

FOUNTAIN Frederick

FROST Alfred Herbert

FROST Frederick William

FROST James George

GADSDEN Frederick James

GAIR Henry Burgh

GARE John Henry

GARWOOD Wilfred James

GATES Arthur James

GIBBS Alfred Arthur

GIBBS David Angus

GLENNERSTER Reginald Loft

GOADBY John Clifton

GRAHAM Fenton Weiss

GROVE Lionel Smart

HALLIMOND William John

HAMMILL Edwin James

HANSFORD Francis Edwin

HARRIS Frederick

HAWKINS Thomas Frederick

HEADY Horace William

HEMLEY Arthur Reginald

HEMMING Francis William

HEYS William George

HICKS Basil Perrin

HIGGINBOTHAM Charles Ernest

HILL Reginald James

HILLS Frank Stanley

HOBBS William George

HOLT Albert Edgar

HOLT Laurence Guy

HOOPER Ronald Morley

HOOPER Samuel William

HORTON William Harry

HORWOOD Herbert Henry

HUGHES, Arthur Harold

HUGHES, William James

HUMPHREYS William Alfred

IBBOTT Arthur David

IBBOTT Bertram Charles

INGRAM William James

JACKMAN William Henry

JOBLING Jabez Dunbar

JONES Ralph Frederick

KAYE Gustav Adolph (Koenigsfeld)

KEITH-JOHNSTON David

KEITH-JOHNSTON Macfie

LAILEY Eric Lillywhite

LAKE John Stephen Raymond

LAKE Reginald St George

LANE Donald Andrew

LANGSTON Charley

LAWSON Frank Albert

LEADER Benjamin Eastlake

LECKIE James Harvey

LEEDS John Stanley

LE MESURIER Frederick Neil

LE ROSSIGNOL Leonard

LEY James Wickham

LOFTS Alfred Frederick

LOUD George Edward

LOVEDAY Frank George

LUMM James Kilby

MACMILLAN George Stephen

MANN Percy Charles

MARSHALL John William Oliver

MARTIN Frank Tingey

MCGREGOR William

MEAD William Frederick

MOBBS Edward Thomas

MOFFET John Leeson

MOLONY Charles Albert

MONTAGUE Harold Charles

MORGAN Herbert Henry

NARROWAY Arthur

NEALE George Edward

NEVILLE Frederick Charles

NEWMAN Walter James

NORTH Sidney Edward

NORTH William Victor

NORWOOD George William

NYE Jack Archibald

OSBORN Harry Cecil

PALMER Bryan Barrington

PALMER John Aldred

PAMMENT John Dyer

PANKHURST Wilfred James Arnold

PARKER Charles Rowley

PARKER George William

PARKER Wilfred Horsley

PATTERSON Nolan Tweeddale

PEARSON James Alan

PERRIN Maurice Nasmith

POLLARD William Richard

POPE John Frederick

POVEY William Robert

PREWETT Bertram revised Jan 2016

PRITCHARD Edward

PUGHE Cecil Reay

PULLIN Bernard John

PURSSELL Alexander James

RAWLINSON Christopher Claude Hedley

RIGGS Frederick Ernest

ROBERTS Vernon Bavai

ROE Leonard Lewis Walter

ROGERS Charles Edward

ROGERS John Cresswell

ROSSON William Harold

ROUND Auriol Francis Hay

ROUND Harold Cecil

ROUND James Murray

RUMBOLD Albert William

RUTHERFORD David Alfred

SAMUELS Henry James

SANDERS Frederick James

SEABROOK Walter James

SELWAY Sidney James

SHEPHERD Arthur

SHERVINTON Thomas Robert Munro

SHERVINTON William Hugh Byam

SHIPTON James Richard

SILVERSTER George Frederick

SIMS Alec William

SIXT Charles Joseph

SLAUGHTER George

SLEAT George Stanley

SLEAT Harold David

SMITH Albert Richard

SMITH Arthur Obadiah

SMITH Enos John

SMITH George Boreham

SMITH John Richard Gutteridge

SMITH Reginald Frederick

SNARE Thomas Daniel Josiah

SPINK John Howard

SPRUELS Alfred John

STAVERT Robert Eliot

STAVERT George James

STEBBEDS Bernard

STEWARD Frank Steward

STOCKMAN Harry John

TARVER Percival Edward

THOMPSON Henry Cedric St John

THRESHER Oswald

TILLYARD William

TIMSON Bertram Charles

TINWORTH Arthur C

TROTT Charles James

TROTT Herbert Ernest

TRUSLOVE Albert Harry

TYERS Richard John

VALE Cyril Sidney Merralls

VERESMITH Daniel James Christopher

VERESMITH Evelyn H

WAKEMAN Frank Trevor

WALDRON Alfred William

WALLER Henry Archibald

WARD Joseph James

WARNEFORD Reginald Alexander John VC

WATSON Clement Spencer

WATSON Frederick Essie Gordon

WATSON Thomas Tosh

WATSON William Neville

WELLS Albert Thomas

WESTERBERG George Herbert

WILD Frederick Bromley

WILDING Anthony

WILKINSON Maurice Hewson

WILKS Percy Walter

WILLIAMS Arthur Edward

WILLIAMS Frank Albert

WILSON Charles Nottingham

WINFIELD Frederick Alfred

WOODSTOCK Henry Charles

WOOLMAN John Gray

WRIGHT Harry James

YOUNG Albert Henry