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Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [5]

Beaconsfield, Bucks [4]

Monks Risborough [4]

Amersham, Buckinghamshire [3]

Birmingham [3]

Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire [3]

Aston Clinton [2]

Birmingham, Warwickshire [2]

Cheltenham [2]

Chipping Norton [2]

Coventry [2]

High Wycombe [2]

High Wycombe, Bucks [2]

Marsh Baldon [2]

Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [2]

Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [2]

Abingdon, Berkshire [1]

Adderbury, Oxfordshire [1]

Appleton Berkshire [1]

Appleton, Berks [1]

Aston, Warwicks [1]

Aylesbury [1]

Bagley Wood, Berkshire [1]

Bampton Oxfordshire [1]

Bampton, Oxfordshire [1]

Banbury, Oxon [1]

Beaconsfield [1]

Beccles,Suffolk. [1]

Berkswell, Warwickshire [1]

Berkswell, Warwickshire, [1]

Bicester Oxfordshire [1]

Bidford on Avon, Warwickshire [1]

Blandford, Dorset [1]

Bombay [1]

Botley, Oxfordshire [1]

Brackley, Northants [1]

Bridgenorth, Shropshire [1]

Brighton [1]

Brixworth, Moulton, Northamptonshire [1]

Broughton, Oxfordshire [1]

Buckinghamshire [1]

Buckland Common, Bucks [1]

Buckland Common,Tring [1]

Buckland, Bucks [1]

Burford, Oxfordshire [1]

Burton on Trent, Staffordshire [1]

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire [1]

Cannock, Staffs [1]

Cardiff, Glamorgan [1]

Chard, Somerset [1]

Rank

Private [1472]

Lance Corporal [102]

Serjeant [89]

Corporal [67]

Lance Serjeant [11]

Acting Serjeant [10]

Second Lieutenant [7]

Corporal 2nd [5]

Lieutenant [5]

Acting Corporal [4]

Company Serjeant Major [4]

Bugler [3]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [3]

Transport Corporal [2]

Transport Serjeant [2]

Acting Colour Serjeant [1]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Captain [1]

Colour Serjeant [1]

Colour Serjeant Major [1]

Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1]

Corporal Acting Serjeant [1]

First Class Air Mechanic [1]

Lance Corporal Acting Corporal [1]

Lance Corporal Acting Serjeant [1]

Lance-Corporal [1]

Major [1]

OTC Sergeant [1]

Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant [1]

Sergeant [1]

Serjeant Acting Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1]

Serjeant Bugler [1]

Staff Serjeant [1]

Temporary Serjeant [1]

l/cpl [1]

promoted Lance Corporal in 1917 [1]

Unit

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1614]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1577]

Buckinghamshire Battalion [43]

1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [22]

Devonshire Regiment [19]

Hampshire Regiment [17]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [17]

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [15]

Royal Berkshire Regiment [14]

Somerset Light Infantry [11]

Labour Corps [8]

Royal Fusiliers [8]

Army Cyclist Corps [7]

Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion [7]

Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry [7]

Oxfordshire Yeomanry [6]

Gloucestershire Regiment [5]

Machine Gun Corps [4]

Wiltshire Regiment [4]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [3]

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [3]

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [3]

Army Service Corps [2]

Divisional Cyclist Corps [2]

King's Royal Rifle Corps [2]

Rifle Brigade [2]

Royal Defence Corps [2]

1/1st Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1]

1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [1]

2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [1]

2/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [1]

26th Buckinghamshire Battalion [1]

2nd Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light infantry, attached Royal Air Force [1]

2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1]

3rd Warnfield Regiment [1]

6th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1]

Border Regiment [1]

Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [1]

Cheshire Regiment [1]

East Kent Regiment [1]

Honourable Artillery Company [1]

Hussars [1]

Indian Ordnance Department formerly Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1]

Kings Royal Rifle Corps [1]

Labour Corps. [1]

Late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1]

Liverpool Regiment [1]

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [1]

Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1]

Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1]

Service

British Army [1626]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [1]

Royal Navy [1]

Last name first letter

B [178]

W [167]

H [162]

S [147]

C [122]

P [107]

M [93]

T [91]

G [83]

R [70]

L [65]

D [63]

A [57]

J [46]

F [42]

E [35]

K [32]

N [31]

I [9]

V [9]

Y [8]

O [3]

U [3]

Q [2]

Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1598]

Country

United Kingdom [115]

India [5]

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Place of birth

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [5] Beaconsfield, Bucks [4] Monks Risborough [4] Amersham, Buckinghamshire [3] Birmingham [3] Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire [3] Aston Clinton [2] Birmingham, Warwickshire [2] Cheltenham [2] Chipping Norton [2] Coventry [2] High Wycombe [2] High Wycombe, Bucks [2] Marsh Baldon [2] Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [2] Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [2] Abingdon, Berkshire [1] Adderbury, Oxfordshire [1] Appleton Berkshire [1] Appleton, Berks [1] Aston, Warwicks [1] Aylesbury [1] Bagley Wood, Berkshire [1] Bampton Oxfordshire [1] Bampton, Oxfordshire [1] Banbury, Oxon [1] Beaconsfield [1] Beccles,Suffolk. [1] Berkswell, Warwickshire [1] Berkswell, Warwickshire, [1] Bicester Oxfordshire [1] Bidford on Avon, Warwickshire [1] Blandford, Dorset [1] Bombay [1] Botley, Oxfordshire [1] Brackley, Northants [1] Bridgenorth, Shropshire [1] Brighton [1] Brixworth, Moulton, Northamptonshire [1] Broughton, Oxfordshire [1] Buckinghamshire [1] Buckland Common, Bucks [1] Buckland Common,Tring [1] Buckland, Bucks [1] Burford, Oxfordshire [1] Burton on Trent, Staffordshire [1] Cambridge, Cambridgeshire [1] Cannock, Staffs [1] Cardiff, Glamorgan [1] Chard, Somerset [1]

Rank

Private [1472] Lance Corporal [102] Serjeant [89] Corporal [67] Lance Serjeant [11] Acting Serjeant [10] Second Lieutenant [7] Corporal 2nd [5] Lieutenant [5] Acting Corporal [4] Company Serjeant Major [4] Bugler [3] Warrant Officer Class 2 [3] Transport Corporal [2] Transport Serjeant [2] Acting Colour Serjeant [1] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1] Captain [1] Colour Serjeant [1] Colour Serjeant Major [1] Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1] Corporal Acting Serjeant [1] First Class Air Mechanic [1] Lance Corporal Acting Corporal [1] Lance Corporal Acting Serjeant [1] Lance-Corporal [1] Major [1] OTC Sergeant [1] Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant [1] Sergeant [1] Serjeant Acting Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1] Serjeant Bugler [1] Staff Serjeant [1] Temporary Serjeant [1] l/cpl [1] promoted Lance Corporal in 1917 [1]

Unit

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1614] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1577] Buckinghamshire Battalion [43] 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [22] Devonshire Regiment [19] Hampshire Regiment [17] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [17] Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [15] Royal Berkshire Regiment [14] Somerset Light Infantry [11] Labour Corps [8] Royal Fusiliers [8] Army Cyclist Corps [7] Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion [7] Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry [7] Oxfordshire Yeomanry [6] Gloucestershire Regiment [5] Machine Gun Corps [4] Wiltshire Regiment [4] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [3] Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [3] The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [3] Army Service Corps [2] Divisional Cyclist Corps [2] King's Royal Rifle Corps [2] Rifle Brigade [2] Royal Defence Corps [2] 1/1st Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1] 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [1] 2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion [1] 2/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [1] 26th Buckinghamshire Battalion [1] 2nd Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light infantry, attached Royal Air Force [1] 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1] 3rd Warnfield Regiment [1] 6th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1] Border Regiment [1] Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [1] Cheshire Regiment [1] East Kent Regiment [1] Honourable Artillery Company [1] Hussars [1] Indian Ordnance Department formerly Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [1] Kings Royal Rifle Corps [1] Labour Corps. [1] Late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1] Liverpool Regiment [1] Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [1] Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1] Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1]

Service

British Army [1626] Canadian Expeditionary Force [1] Royal Navy [1]

Last name first letter

B [178] W [167] H [162] S [147] C [122] P [107] M [93] T [91] G [83] R [70] L [65] D [63] A [57] J [46] F [42] E [35] K [32] N [31] I [9] V [9] Y [8] O [3] U [3] Q [2] Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1598]

Country

United Kingdom [115] India [5]

Frank Beesley

Born 1895

Died 1916

British Army 9853 Acting Corporal Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 9853 Corporal Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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George Willey

Born 1878

Died 1917

British Army 26203 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 26203 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 5th Battalion

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Ernest Barton

Born 1886

Died 1915

British Army 7362 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2nd Battalion

British Army 7362 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Thomas Sidney Waters

Born 1891

Died 1916

British Army 20897 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 20897 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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George John Symonds

Born 1880

Died 1916

British Army 4340 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 4340 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Frederick Selby Tott

Born 1892

Died 1916

British Army 9579 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 9579 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Tom Trace

Born 1897

Died 1916

British Army 19509 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2nd Battalion

British Army 19509 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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George Rixon

Born 1876

Died 1917

British Army 19182 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 19182 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Ambrose Ashfield Pitson

Born 1896

Died 1914

British Army 9896 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 9896 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Arnold John Tyrrell

Born 1875

Died 1915

British Army 4654 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 4654 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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W H A Watkins

Died 1915

British Army 10290 Lance Corporal Acting Serjeant Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 10290 Corporal Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 2nd Battalion

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Stanley Houghton

Born 1896

Died 1917

British Army 18838 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 18838 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 5th Battalion

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Harry Prentice

Born 1898

Died 1916

British Army 2910 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 2910 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Sidney Guess

Born 1894

Died 1916

British Army 12527 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 6th oxfordshire and Battalion

British Army 12527 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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Alfred John Collins

Born 1894

Died 1915

British Army 15281 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 15281 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

British Army 203973 Corporal 24th

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Francis Joseph Rowland

Born 1876

Died 1915

British Army 9796 Private Royal Berkshire Regiment

British Army Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

British Army 9796 Lance Corporal Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Batt

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Kenneth Cyril Clinkard

Born 1896

Died 1918

British Army 7609 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 203358 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 203358 l/cpl Oxford. and Bucks Light Infantry 1st/4th Bn.,

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William Henry Short

Died 1917

British Army 23800 Private Wiltshire Regiment

British Army 28254 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 3rd Garrison Battalion

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George William Bartlett

Born 1886

Died 1917

British Army 4061 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 285014 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2nd/1st Battalion

British Army 285014 Private Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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John James Newman

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 10233 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 10233 Serjeant Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 10233 Serjeant Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

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