Chesham

Photograph of Chesham  war memorial
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Data source : UK War Memorials Register compiled by the Imperial War Museum (re-used under a non-commercial license)

Memorial location

Location: Chesham
County/region: Buckinghamshire
Country: England

Names commemorated

There are 185 First World War casualty names recorded on the UK War Memorial Register record for this memorial.

There are 177 casualty records on A Street Near You linked to this memorial, or in some way connected to the area or subject it commemorates
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ImageNameRegimentDate of death
Second Lieutenant Arthur George Bourchier Royal Berkshire Regiment09/05/1915
Lance Corporal Herbert George Wilkinson 36400Leicestershire Regiment03/05/1917 (aged 35)
Private Albert Henry Brandon 18504Royal Warwickshire Regiment11/08/1916
Corporal Charles William Spear 496002Royal Engineers07/05/1919 (aged 42)
Private Harold Edward Franklin 43277Royal Warwickshire Regiment26/10/1917 (aged 19)
Private Sydney Lacey 977Australian Infantry, A.I.F.19/07/1916 (aged 24)
Private Simmons 10695Bedfordshire Regiment28/04/1917
Second Lieutenant William Thomas Stoneman London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)26/07/1917 (aged 31)
Private Leonard David Dunning 35856Royal Warwickshire Regiment23/08/1918 (aged 18)
Private Joseph Climpson 8761Royal Irish Regiment19/10/1914
Private Stanley George Nash 18529Royal Warwickshire Regiment14/11/1916 (aged 22)
Private Reuben Frank Griffin 88170Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)14/06/1917 (aged 19)
Private William Birch 59169Devonshire Regiment15/04/1917
Driver Adams 1700Royal Engineers28/06/1915
Driver Beaumont L/36674Royal Field Artillery04/11/1918
Lance Corporal Arthur Wingrove 10159Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry25/09/1915
Private Joseph Dwight 60676Royal Fusiliers03/05/1917
Private Fred Plested 9412East Surrey Regiment13/06/1917 (aged 23)
Private Walter William Lambert 30147Royal Warwickshire Regiment14/05/1917 (aged 23)
Lance Corporal Sydney George Keen 29386Grenadier Guards04/04/1918 (aged 19)
Rifleman Frederick Thomas Robertson A/203043King's Royal Rifle Corps16/08/1917 (aged 22)
Private Thomas Harry Saunders 128506Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)13/10/1918 (aged 20)
Private Howe 266584Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry23/07/1916
Private Arthur Gifford Wicks 9077Honourable Artillery Company02/04/1917 (aged 19)
Lance Corporal James Harrowell R/24249King's Royal Rifle Corps22/10/1917 (aged 32)
Private Frank Edmonds 17395Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/07/1915 (aged 19)
Private William Fredrick Henry Sear 143224th (Queen's Own) Hussars07/02/1916 (aged 19)
Private John Edwin Gray TF/3509Middlesex Regiment01/07/1916 (aged 22)
Private James Batchelor 18076Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/10/1915 (aged 38)
Private Ernest Darlington 205296Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars28/11/1917 (aged 23)
Private Herbert Hazeldine 22984Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry10/12/1917
Private William Fells 10042Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)08/11/1914
Lance Corporal Henry David Sargent 22434Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry11/09/1918
Private Lee 9909Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry01/08/1917
Private Charles Spicer 266583Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry27/08/1917 (aged 24)
Private Hinks 25981Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry23/08/1918
Private Edward Charles Day 17252Hampshire Regiment06/08/1915 (aged 28)
Lance Corporal Edward Darvell 15680Gloucestershire Regiment25/09/1915 (aged 21)
Private Frank Lacey 55995Northumberland Fusiliers22/10/1917 (aged 38)
Private Charles William Larkins 203896Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/08/1917 (aged 35)
Rifleman James Barnes C/631King's Royal Rifle Corps15/07/1916 (aged 27)
Private Charles Philbey 7788Bedfordshire Regiment07/11/1914 (aged 31)
Rifleman Wingrove 305881London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)11/10/1918 (aged 18)
Private Wilfred John Glasgow S/17487Cameron Highlanders20/09/1917 (aged 23)
Private Frederick Amos Clarke 8873Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/05/1915
Rifleman Harry Pearce C/634King's Royal Rifle Corps15/07/1916 (aged 23)
Private William Thomas Climpson 5751Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry05/11/1916 (aged 26)
Private Harry Puddephatt 41588Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers08/07/1918 (aged 27)
Lance Corporal Percy Edward Hunnibell 14416Wiltshire Regiment24/04/1917 (aged 25)
Private Lewis Arthur How 41675Suffolk Regiment24/11/1917
Private George Henry Baldwin 9929Devonshire Regiment01/07/1916
Private Charles Henry King 9091Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry22/04/1918 (aged 39)
Private William White 74577Royal Army Medical Corps18/04/1918 (aged 26)
Lance Serjeant Ralph Reed 22499Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry23/03/1918 (aged 24)
Rifleman Arthur Batchelor R/13458King's Royal Rifle Corps24/08/1916
Lance Corporal John Adnitt 265129Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry22/08/1917 (aged 31)
Private George Lewis Humphrey Mills 39480Royal Berkshire Regiment23/03/1918
Lance Corporal David Smith 202357Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry19/04/1917
Private George Harding 8896Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry03/11/1914 (aged 27)
Private Arthur Ronald Clarke 1330Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)08/05/1915 (aged 23)
Lance Corporal Reginald Roberts Meadows 17285Bedfordshire Regiment31/08/1917 (aged 25)
Private Rance 23231Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry25/04/1917
Private Frank Humphrey 7332Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry21/10/1914
Driver Bertie Augustus Prior 47308Royal Field Artillery23/10/1915 (aged 26)
Shipwright 2nd Class Frank Rhodes M/2451Royal Navy, HMS Glatton16/09/1918 (aged 25)
Private John Dell Lacey 20091Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry22/12/1915 (aged 54)
Second Lieutenant Clapp Border Regiment02/10/1917 (aged 22)
Second Lieutenant George William Darvell Royal Warwickshire Regiment08/05/1918 (aged 24)
Serjeant Frank Gomm C/636King's Royal Rifle Corps15/07/1916
Second Lieutenant William Pryor Humphrey London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)27/05/1918 (aged 29)
Able Seaman Frederick Ben Bates 235015Royal Navy, HMS Penn01/10/1918
Private Beckett 7370Coldstream Guards25/09/1916 (aged 26)
Private Frank Child 201472Welsh Regiment27/03/1917 (aged 21)
Private Arthur William Garner 7923Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/05/1915
Private Jack Cecil Herbert Simmons 20813Bedfordshire Regiment28/08/1916
Serjeant George Morris C/1366King's Royal Rifle Corps10/07/1917 (aged 26)
Corporal William Arthur Pearce C/627King's Royal Rifle Corps25/08/1916 (aged 19)
Private Charles Wright 17117Hampshire Regiment12/10/1916
Petty Officer James Smith 216737Royal Navy, HMS Negro21/12/1916 (aged 32)
Corporal Frank Saunders 17930Coldstream Guards31/03/1918
Private Brandon 738049London Regiment22/08/1918
Lance Corporal Thomas William Pratt 18022Royal Fusiliers24/04/1917 (aged 21)
Private Stone 20954Gloucestershire Regiment04/05/1916
Private William Comper G/68017Royal Fusiliers05/04/1918 (aged 35)
Private Archibald Cox 42102Essex Regiment05/04/1918 (aged 19)
Corporal Barnes R/12379King's Royal Rifle Corps20/10/1917 (aged 24)
Corporal Henry George King 265099Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry16/08/1916 (aged 22)
Serjeant Reginald Henry Puddefoot 51600Lincolnshire Regiment16/04/1918 (aged 23)
Private Frederick Mcdermott 16/560West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)01/07/1916
Private Lawrence 8340Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry01/03/1918
Private Marshall 23440Royal Fusiliers22/05/1918
Private Alfred George Payne 28925Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry27/09/1917 (aged 33)
Private Walter Lewis 15636Gloucestershire Regiment09/09/1916
Gunner Arthur James Baker 60755Royal Garrison Artillery29/04/1918 (aged 26)
Private Joseph Frank Arnold 37943Gloucestershire Regiment28/07/1917 (aged 19)
Private Arnold 9411East Surrey Regiment04/05/1917 (aged 19)
Private John Redding 203517Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry25/02/1917
Gunner Mayger L/35829Royal Field Artillery24/10/1918
Private Arthur Summerlin 41542Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers22/03/1918 (aged 25)
Private William Herbert Turner 28717Hampshire Regiment12/09/1918
Private Bernard William Wardley 5/87546King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry23/11/1918 (aged 24)
Private Charles Henry Holt 34949East Surrey Regiment16/03/1918 (aged 31)
Private Payne L/15082Royal Fusiliers25/04/1915 (aged 22)
Private Frank Sabatini 203955Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry21/03/1918
Private Walter Dwight 39350Royal Berkshire Regiment30/11/1917
Corporal Baker 010585Royal Army Ordnance Corps17/02/1919 (aged 27)
Private George Wilson Lacey 23829Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)12/10/1916
Private Frederick John Brown 34698Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry08/05/1917
Gunner Frederick Shirley 58833Royal Field Artillery16/05/1916 (aged 21)
Gunner Tree 153962Royal Garrison Artillery26/10/1917 (aged 23)
Lance Corporal William Cogdell 23653Grenadier Guards05/04/1918 (aged 24)
Private John Thomas (Jock) Sweetland 203487East Surrey Regiment24/03/1918 (aged 19)
Private Leonard H. Rowden 29832Royal Warwickshire Regiment11/04/1918 (aged 19)
Lance Corporal Charles William Grover 8702Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry22/11/1915
Private William Rowe 463827Canadian Infantry10/02/1917
Sapper Franklin 98028Royal Engineers25/05/1916 (aged 19)
Lance Corporal John Staple 235033Royal Warwickshire Regiment06/09/1917 (aged 30)
Private Barnes 2946Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry07/09/1916
Private Pearson 7055Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry28/08/1915 (aged 32)
Private Albert Rackley 266198Hertfordshire Regiment13/11/1916
Corporal William Bryant G/4146Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)12/01/1916 (aged 32)
Private William Smith 463827ALIAS10/02/1917
Private Samuel Summerlin 18809Hertfordshire Regiment25/08/1918 (aged 20)
Lance Corporal Ernest John Birch 9414East Surrey Regiment06/11/1918 (aged 22)
Private Coughtrey 20838Gloucestershire Regiment01/03/1916
Private Donkin 2169London Regiment (London Scottish)24/03/1915
Private Darvell 8310Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry31/08/1916
Private Alfred Harding 285001Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry23/03/1918 (aged 22)
Private Laurence John Edward George 27555Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars21/11/1917 (aged 22)
Lance Corporal Albert Edward Humphrey 231315Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)21/11/1917 (aged 26)
Private Edward Bass 17113Hampshire Regiment06/08/1915 (aged 37)
Lance Corporal George Reading 8029Northamptonshire Regiment16/03/1915 (aged 30)
Private Frank Reynolds 90047Royal Fusiliers10/09/1918 (aged 19)
Rifleman Frank Randal Hayes C/262King's Royal Rifle Corps15/07/1916 (aged 21)
Serjeant Thomas Adams 10158Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry25/09/1915
Private Walter Wilkinson 8991Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry22/11/1915 (aged 25)
Lance Corporal James Edward Butler 43071Manchester Regiment30/07/1917 (aged 22)
Rifleman John William Gomm S/6092Rifle Brigade12/03/1916 (aged 32)
Private Birch 201322Canadian Infantry08/12/1916
Private Stanley Charles New 73269Canadian Infantry01/11/1916 (aged 26)
Private Henry Batchelor 203188Worcestershire Regiment17/04/1918 (aged 22)
Gunner Leonard William Preen 209367Royal Field Artillery24/04/1918 (aged 25)
Serjeant Thomas William Sibley C/258King's Royal Rifle Corps18/06/1918 (aged 29)
Rifleman Richard William Hudson C/1099King's Royal Rifle Corps03/01/1917 (aged 28)
Private Wright 18540Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry02/04/1917 (aged 19)
Rifleman William Thorne R/12378King's Royal Rifle Corps08/08/1916 (aged 22)
Private Ernest John Edwards M2/202009Army Service Corps24/02/1918 (aged 27)
Private Edward Joseph Wright 43394Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)28/07/1916 (aged 18)
Lance Corporal Eric George Webb 2870London Regiment06/08/1916 (aged 22)
Private Batchelor 33756Yorkshire Regiment22/12/1917 (aged 22)
Serjeant Frederick Thomas Hyatt C/633King's Royal Rifle Corps28/01/1916
Private Hawkes 242857Royal Warwickshire Regiment27/10/1918
Lance Corporal William George Butt 2022City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)22/08/1915 (aged 23)
Private Wynn S4/215699Army Service Corps16/02/1917 (aged 19)
Gunner Hearn 60527Royal Garrison Artillery14/06/1916 (aged 23)
Gunner Mayger 114832Royal Field Artillery29/08/1918 (aged 24)
Serjeant Alick Maurice Mayo 217992Royal Engineers12/06/1917 (aged 30)
Private William George Reynolds 669Australian Infantry, A.I.F.03/05/1915
Private Leonard Puddephatt 13535Machine Gun Corps06/05/1918 (aged 29)
Serjeant James Denham 15677Gloucestershire Regiment26/09/1916 (aged 23)
Private Louis E. Newth 27975Royal Warwickshire Regiment31/03/1918 (aged 21)
Private Sam Butler 23642Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry10/08/1918 (aged 32)
Private Algernon Pearce 64115King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry19/09/1918 (aged 20)
Sapper Pearson 101617Royal Engineers28/11/1916
Air Mechanic 3rd Class George Edward Lambert 192554Royal Air Force02/07/1918 (aged 17)
Corporal George Dudley Walter Chimes 33034Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry07/10/1916 (aged 34)
Corporal Cyril Montague Hodgkison 38084Royal Berkshire Regiment01/06/1918 (aged 22)
Lance Corporal Charles Henry Pullinger 24912Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry21/03/1918
Corporal Tom Bunker C/1096King's Royal Rifle Corps16/07/1916 (aged 27)
Gunner Edwin Birch 33163Royal Field Artillery10/02/1915 (aged 34)
Lance Corporal Ralph Hill 22915Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry12/09/1916 (aged 19)
Private Edward Charles Allen 13886Royal Fusiliers01/07/1916 (aged 29)
Lance Corporal Gomm 906Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars26/02/1916 (aged 23)
Pioneer Mayo 230632Royal Engineers26/04/1918 (aged 34)
Private Henry George Wingrove 30751Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry14/04/1918
Lance Corporal Moulder 203795Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry08/05/1918
Private George Payne 42760Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers15/10/1918 (aged 23)