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Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [2]

Nuneham Courtenay [2]

Oxford [2]

Adderbury, Oxfordshire [1]

Aldershot [1]

Apperley, Gloucestershire [1]

Arlington [1]

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire [1]

Bampton Oxfordshire [1]

Banbury, Oxfordshire [1]

Bicester, Oxfordshire [1]

Bletchington, Oxon [1]

Bodicote, Banbury [1]

Burlescombe, Devon [1]

Chipping Norton [1]

Chiselhampton [1]

East Hagbourne, Berks [1]

Eydon, Northamptonshire [1]

Guildford, Surrey [1]

Habergham Eaves, Lancashire [1]

Hastings [1]

Hethe [1]

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [1]

Kilnhurst, Yorkshire [1]

Lambeth [1]

London [1]

Marsh Baldon [1]

Marston St Lawrence, Oxfordshire [1]

Middleton Cheney, Banbury, Oxon [1]

Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland [1]

North Newington, Banbury Oxon [1]

Ormskirk, Lancashire [1]

Reading England [1]

Sandford, Oxfordshire [1]

Shifford [1]

South Newington,Oxfordshire [1]

Staffordshire [1]

Thame RD, Oxfordshire [1]

Toot Baldon [1]

Warkworth, Banbury [1]

Waterloo [1]

Wentworth, Yorkshire. [1]

Woodstock [1]

Rank

Private [660]

Serjeant [83]

Second Lieutenant [72]

Corporal [62]

Lieutenant [46]

Lance Corporal [38]

Captain [22]

Shoeing Smith [11]

Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [9]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [9]

Major [8]

Staff Serjeant Major [6]

Trooper [6]

Sapper [5]

Shoeing Smith Corporal [5]

Lance Serjeant [4]

Staff Serjeant [4]

Acting Captain [3]

Acting Corporal [3]

Acting Serjeant [3]

Saddler [3]

Corporal 2nd [2]

Farrier Serjeant [2]

Lieutenant Colonel [2]

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Regimental Serjeant Major [2]

Sergeant [2]

Temporary Captain [2]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

Acting Lieutenant Colonel [1]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Adjutant [1]

Captain Temporary Major [1]

Colonel [1]

Colour Serjeant [1]

Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Gunner [1]

Interpreter [1]

Lance-Corporal [1]

Lieutenant Acting Captain and Adjutant [1]

Lieutenant Quarter Master [1]

Major Lieutenant Colonel [1]

Private Acting Corporal [1]

Quarter Master and Captain [1]

Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars [1]

Second Lieutenant Lieutenant [1]

Serjeant Trooper [1]

Signalling Corporal [1]

Squadron Serjeant Major [1]

Staff Quartermaster Serjeant [1]

Unit

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [798]

Corps of Hussars [439]

Oxfordshire Yeomanry [261]

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry [35]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [33]

Machine Gun Corps [29]

Oxfordshire Hussars [27]

Labour Corps [21]

Royal Air Force [14]

Royal Engineers [13]

Army Service Corps [11]

Royal Field Artillery [10]

Royal Flying Corps [10]

Royal Berkshire Regiment [8]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [6]

Royal Garrison Artillery [6]

Tank Corps [6]

Royal Army Service Corps [5]

Worcestershire Regiment [5]

1/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [4]

Dorset Yeomanry [4]

Highland Light Infantry [4]

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [4]

Reserve Cavalry Regiment [4]

Royal Naval Division [3]

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

2nd Reserve Cavalry Regiment [2]

3rd Hussars [2]

Army Veterinary Corps [2]

Corps Of Hussars [2]

Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) [2]

Gloucestershire Regiment [2]

Hussars [2]

Labour Corps ex Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [2]

Lancers [2]

North Somerset Yeomanry [2]

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [2]

Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry [2]

Royal Marines [2]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [2]

South Nottinghamshire Hussars [2]

Suffolk Yeomanry [2]

Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry [2]

Yorkshire Regiment [2]

19th (Queen Alexander's Own) Hussars [1]

19th (Queen Alexandra's Own) Hussars [1]

1st Surrey Yeomanry [1]

2/1st Berkshire Yeomanry [1]

2/1st North Somerset Yeomanry [1]

2nd Oxford Hussars [1]

Service

British Army [840]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Last name first letter

H [113]

B [106]

C [79]

S [75]

W [63]

P [56]

M [44]

F [37]

G [36]

T [35]

A [31]

L [29]

R [29]

J [23]

D [21]

N [17]

K [14]

E [11]

O [8]

Q [5]

I [3]

Y [3]

V [2]

Contribution

Military Service [835]

Country

United Kingdom [32]

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Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire [2] Nuneham Courtenay [2] Oxford [2] Adderbury, Oxfordshire [1] Aldershot [1] Apperley, Gloucestershire [1] Arlington [1] Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire [1] Bampton Oxfordshire [1] Banbury, Oxfordshire [1] Bicester, Oxfordshire [1] Bletchington, Oxon [1] Bodicote, Banbury [1] Burlescombe, Devon [1] Chipping Norton [1] Chiselhampton [1] East Hagbourne, Berks [1] Eydon, Northamptonshire [1] Guildford, Surrey [1] Habergham Eaves, Lancashire [1] Hastings [1] Hethe [1] High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [1] Kilnhurst, Yorkshire [1] Lambeth [1] London [1] Marsh Baldon [1] Marston St Lawrence, Oxfordshire [1] Middleton Cheney, Banbury, Oxon [1] Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland [1] North Newington, Banbury Oxon [1] Ormskirk, Lancashire [1] Reading England [1] Sandford, Oxfordshire [1] Shifford [1] South Newington,Oxfordshire [1] Staffordshire [1] Thame RD, Oxfordshire [1] Toot Baldon [1] Warkworth, Banbury [1] Waterloo [1] Wentworth, Yorkshire. [1] Woodstock [1]

Rank

Private [660] Serjeant [83] Second Lieutenant [72] Corporal [62] Lieutenant [46] Lance Corporal [38] Captain [22] Shoeing Smith [11] Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [9] Warrant Officer Class 2 [9] Major [8] Staff Serjeant Major [6] Trooper [6] Sapper [5] Shoeing Smith Corporal [5] Lance Serjeant [4] Staff Serjeant [4] Acting Captain [3] Acting Corporal [3] Acting Serjeant [3] Saddler [3] Corporal 2nd [2] Farrier Serjeant [2] Lieutenant Colonel [2] Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Regimental Serjeant Major [2] Sergeant [2] Temporary Captain [2] 2nd Lieutenant [1] Acting Lieutenant Colonel [1] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1] Adjutant [1] Captain Temporary Major [1] Colonel [1] Colour Serjeant [1] Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Gunner [1] Interpreter [1] Lance-Corporal [1] Lieutenant Acting Captain and Adjutant [1] Lieutenant Quarter Master [1] Major Lieutenant Colonel [1] Private Acting Corporal [1] Quarter Master and Captain [1] Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars [1] Second Lieutenant Lieutenant [1] Serjeant Trooper [1] Signalling Corporal [1] Squadron Serjeant Major [1] Staff Quartermaster Serjeant [1]

Unit

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [798] Corps of Hussars [439] Oxfordshire Yeomanry [261] Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry [35] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [33] Machine Gun Corps [29] Oxfordshire Hussars [27] Labour Corps [21] Royal Air Force [14] Royal Engineers [13] Army Service Corps [11] Royal Field Artillery [10] Royal Flying Corps [10] Royal Berkshire Regiment [8] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [6] Royal Garrison Artillery [6] Tank Corps [6] Royal Army Service Corps [5] Worcestershire Regiment [5] 1/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [4] Dorset Yeomanry [4] Highland Light Infantry [4] Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [4] Reserve Cavalry Regiment [4] Royal Naval Division [3] 2/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [2] 2nd Reserve Cavalry Regiment [2] 3rd Hussars [2] Army Veterinary Corps [2] Corps Of Hussars [2] Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) [2] Gloucestershire Regiment [2] Hussars [2] Labour Corps ex Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [2] Lancers [2] North Somerset Yeomanry [2] Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [2] Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry [2] Royal Marines [2] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [2] South Nottinghamshire Hussars [2] Suffolk Yeomanry [2] Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry [2] Yorkshire Regiment [2] 19th (Queen Alexander's Own) Hussars [1] 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own) Hussars [1] 1st Surrey Yeomanry [1] 2/1st Berkshire Yeomanry [1] 2/1st North Somerset Yeomanry [1] 2nd Oxford Hussars [1]

Service

British Army [840] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Last name first letter

H [113] B [106] C [79] S [75] W [63] P [56] M [44] F [37] G [36] T [35] A [31] L [29] R [29] J [23] D [21] N [17] K [14] E [11] O [8] Q [5] I [3] Y [3] V [2]

Contribution

Military Service [835]

Country

United Kingdom [32]

William Henry Huckerby

Born 1890

Died 1972

British Army 2271 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 285435 Private Corps of Hussars

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William Henry Jarvis

Born 1891

British Army 1685 Lance Corporal Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1685 Lance Corporal Corps of Hussars

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Arthur Collier

Born 1872

Died 1917

British Army 3513 Staff Serjeant Major Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 3513 Regimental Serjeant Major Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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John Arthur Perrot Whinney

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army Second Lieutenant Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army Second Lieutenant Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Leslie William Saunders

Born 1896

Died 1918

British Army 1734 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 285074 Lance Corporal Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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F W J Macey

Died 1917

British Army 285934 Private Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army 285934 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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J Johnston

Died 1918

British Army 285422 Serjeant Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army 285422 Serjeant Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Frank Bennett Dallow

Born 1893

Died 1914

British Army 1718 Private Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1718 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Geoffrey Rupert Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes

Born 1885

Died 1949

British Army Captain Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Walter Charles Prothero

Born 1898

Died 1974

British Army 286457 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Arthur Pearce

Born 1870

Died 1942

British Army 3228 Warrant Officer Class 2 Lancers

British Army 530710 Warrant Officer Class 2 Labour Corps

British Army 3228 Staff Sergeant Major Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars 1/1st Battalion

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Charles Henry Thompson

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 2111 Private Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 285319 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 285319 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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Ralph Lines

Born 1888

Died 1918

British Army 1947 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1947 Corporal Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 285209 Corporal Corps of Hussars

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Frederick J Wilson

Born 1897

Died 1915

British Army 2375 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 2375 Private Oxfordshire Yeomanry

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William E Roberts

Born 1885

Died 1915

British Army 1498 Serjeant Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1498 Serjeant Oxfordshire Yeomanry

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Harold Francis Archer

Born 1894

Died 1914

British Army 1700 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1700 Private Corps of Hussars

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William Frank Hickman

Born 1877

British Army 2316 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 2316 Private Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 285465 Private Corps of Hussars

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William Alexander Smith Bayliss

Born 1886

Died 1917

British Army 1812 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 1812 Serjeant Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 28512 Serjeant Corps of Hussars

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Frederick William Quartly

Born 1896

Died 1956

British Army 2140 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 2140 Corporal Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 285341 Corporal Corps of Hussars

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Herbert G Hicks

Died 1918

British Army 2025 Private Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 2025 Private Oxfordshire Hussars

British Army 285265 Private Corps of Hussars

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