THE names of 82 men on a town’s war memorial will be read out before a church service to mark the First World War’s centenary.

People have been invited to the war memorial outside Wallingford’s Town Hall, in Market Place, before the recital from the roll of honour at 6pm tomorrow.

The congregation will then gather in St Mary-le-More Church, between St Mary’s Street and St Martin’s Street, where Wallingford Parish Choir will perform.

Church team rector Rev David Rice said it was important to mark 100 years since the war’s outbreak.

He said: “We want to remember the great courage that was shown by these people.’’ Sue Ledger will lead the choir with Gaby Clements as an accompanist.

They will sing excerpts from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, which the Royal Armouries commissioned in 2000 for victims of the war in Kosovo.

Wallingford town councillor Ros Lester said the service would commemorate rather than celebrate the war.

She said: “There were far too many lives lost in the most awful circumstance — it was terrible.

“They were wasted for what when there was another world war afterwards.

“People need to realise what that war was about and the devastation of it.”

NAMES OF THE FALLEN

1914 – 1918: 
Pte F. J. Allen
Pte J. Andrews
Pte F. G. Barnicott
Pte A. Bartlett
Pte S. A. Bartlett
Pte B. J. E. Belcher
Pte H. W. Binyon
Pte A. G. Birdseye
Pte F. S. Blackwood
Spr C. R. G. Blissett
Rfm W. T. Blissett
L Cpl C. W. D. Brasher
Pte T. W. Broadway
Gnr G. S. Cheney
Pte R. Church
Pte F. F. Craxton
Pte H. Curtis
Lt G. W. Daman
Pte G. W. Dell
Pte A. Dodd
Pte G. Dowler
Pte W. G. Ely
L Cpl A. Emmett
Pte C. W. Emmett
Pte G. H. Freeman
Pte J. S. Freeman
Pte J. Freeman
Cpl L. F. Gale
Gnr F. H. Giles
Pte G. W. Giles
Sgt E. J. Grant
Cpl G. W. Green
Pte A. J. Griffin
Pte W. S. Griffin
Gnr W. S. Griffin
Pte W. J. Hall
Ab Sman N. L. Hartwell
Pte T. Hartwell 
Pte G. Hatto
Lt C. C. Hedges M.C.
Sgt S. W. Hedges
Sgt F. W. Hedges
Rfm H. A. Holme
Pte A. Hurst
Cpl E. D. Jenkins
Pte T. H. Jones
Pte C. A. G. Langsbury
Mjr E. H. Latter M.C.
Sgt E. Lisemore
Pte E. Lott
Pte F. Marshall
Lc Cpl W. Marshall
Pte E. T. Newman
Pte J. Nicholls
Pte W. Jones
Pte W. J. Norris
Cpl E. W. Patey
Lt O. G. Payne
L Cpl H. Pocock
Pte C. S. Polley
Spr W. C. Read
Pte T. Sadler
Pte W. P. Sadler
Rmn W. Sandall
Cpl R. J. Sim
Gnr J. H. Snow
Pte G. Stevens M.M.
PO F. M. Stickley
Pte C. E. Stopp
Lt T. G. Tucker
Stf Sgt W. V. Tombs
Tpter H. A. Turner
Pte W. S. Ward
Lt M. W. Wells
Pte C. W. Wilson
Ab Sman A. C. Whitehorn
Cpl H. J. Whitehorn
Pte F. W. Whittick
Gnr A. Wilkins
Pte T. E. Witherell
Cpl J. W. Wood
Pte H. G. Woodward

1939 – 1945:
Cdt R. J. Ayres
RSM E. J. Belcher B.E.M.
Sgt H. Bennett
Ab Sman C. Blake
Mjr R. Bohlen
Plt Off N. G. Bowen
Dvr W. F. Evans
Pt Officer C. C. Goff    
Mrn B. E. Gunning
Flt Lt A. J. Hancock D.F.C. and Bar Flg Officer N. A. Hattersley
Ab Sman A. G. Hissey
Lt D. G. E. Holme
2nd Lt M. H. Holme
LAC R. Hoskins
Afm K. W. Howse
Sgt H. James
Flt Sgt W. J. King
Pte W. G. Lane
Lt A. J. Lester
Gnr L. G. Large
CSM F. T. Lovegrove
Flt Sgt E. W. Moody
Sgt E. J. Myers
Tpr R. Norris
Stkr C. A. Peedle
Flt Sgt C. D. Perry D.F.M.
Tpr R. Rush
Stff Sgt A. G. Shepherd
Pte F. B. Shaw
Cpl W. H. Simpson
Lt G. D. R. Slade
Cpt E. S. Walmesley
Mjr A. F. Wells
L Cpl E. Woodgate
Lg Seaman T. C. Wright
L Cpl Paul Mundy 
(N.I 1974)
Fly Off Wilding R.C.A.F.
Flt Sgt Andrew R.C.A.F.

 

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