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This page is based on the book published in 2015 by the Chiltern U3A Family History Groups.

Because only a small number of copies of the book have been printed, Amersham Museum has agreed to publish it here as well so as to make this valuable research available to as wide an audience as possible.

If you want to read any part of the book, just click on the relevant heading below to download a pdf. (You will need to have a pdf reader – click here to download a free copy.)  Some of the pdfs are quite large, so please be patient.

This page and the pdf attachments are the copyright of Chiltern U3A However, short extracts may be taken but it is requested that the source is always quoted, namely: Amersham Remembers: the Men Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War, published by Chiltern U3A.

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[The pages marked below with # were updated in March 2016 and ** for those updated in October 2017]

Contents   

Foreword

Dedication 

Acknowledgements  

The Project  

The War Memorial 

Amersham in 1914

Recruitment to the Army 

Military Structures  

The Army in Amersham

The Royal Flying Corps & The Royal Air Force

The Historical Context of the First World War – part 1  

The Historical Context of the First World War – part 2  

The Men Who Gave Their Lives – some statistics

Biographies of the Fallen – see the list below

Memorials to the Missing

Amersham – The Post War Experience

“Amersham in Flanders”

The Researchers

Sources & References

Index  

 

Biographies of the Fallen

Mervyn Richard William ALLEN
Charles William ATKINS
William James BARNES  
John BATES
Harry BEESON
John BENTLEY
Frank BIRCH
S BIRCH
Bertram Alfred BIZZELL  
Edward BOLTON, Francis BOLTON and Henry Thomas (Harry) BOLTON  
Raymond BOWLER
John BRILL
W BRYAN
William John BRYANT
John Frederick BUNCE MC
George Joseph CASTLE
Frank Percy CAUDERY
Frederick CAUDERY
Edgar Richard CHANDLER
Frederick CLARK
Leonard CLARK
Albert Victor CLARKE
Geoffrey CLARKE
George COOPER
Thomas Edward COOPER
Stanley Robert COX
William George COX
Arthur Thomas (Dick) Crawford CREE  
Norman Eustace Sassoon CROAGER  
Edward James CROOK 
Arthur DARVELL MM
Albert John DOVER
Fred DOVER
William Charles DUMBARTON
Charles DYER
Edward Douglas Percy FEATHERSTONE
Reginald John Heybourne FORTNAM
Leonard GIBBS
Guy Godfrey GLYN
Edward George GRACE DCM
Henry GRACE
Cecil George GREEN
Thomas Edward GREENLEY
Ronald GRIST
George Thomas HANCE
Mark HARRIS
Bert HAZELL
G T R HAZELL
Roland HAZELL
Frederick Joseph HEARN
William George HOARE
Charles John HOLMES
James Anthony HORNE
Thomas George IRONS
E JAMES
Thomas Henry LACEY
William Thomas LAKE  
Albert George LANE
Charles William LANE
George Percy LANE
William LAWRENCE
Alfred James LEE
Thomas William LEE
Bert LINE  
Bernard George LOFTS
Wilfred Richard LOFTS
Charles William MARSHALL
George Thomas MATTHEWS
James Emmens MEAD
Harry MITCHELL
Sidney Howard MOTION  
William Henry NORTH
Ernest William OLNEY
Frederick George PARSLOW
Percy Walter PEACH 
George Stephenson PODBURY
Albert John REDDING MM
John REDDING
Frank ROGERS
Frederick Victor ROGERS
Walter Charles SCOTT
Charles SCUTCHINGS
William John SLADE
William STRONNELL
Henry William (Harry) SWEETLAND
Robert William TOOP
Herbert William (Jack) TYRWHITT-DRAKE
Robert WALL
Frederick Hubert WARREN
James WELLINGS
Henry Frank WEST
Harold John Robert WHIKE
Sidney WILKINS
James WILLIAMS
George Henry WILLIS
Ernest WINGROVE and Frank WINGROVE

 

Plan Your Visit

Opening hours:

Wednesday to Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays, 12noon to 4:30pm

49 High Street
Old Amersham
Buckinghamshire
HP7 0DP

01494 723700
[email protected]

 

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