The Parish Church War Memorial
This picture shows the War Memorial in the Parish Church Churchyard just after it was refurbished in 2012.
The following are those named on the Memorial:
Wantage Roll of Honour
World War I
Allen J |
Australian Field Artillery |
12th August 1917 |
Andrews J D |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
29th October 1917 |
Axton H B |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
7th November 1914 |
Baker C R |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
16th August 1917 |
Barlow E H |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
2nd January 1918 |
Barton C P |
East Surrey Regiment |
27th August 1916 |
Beechey J W H |
Royal Navy |
5th June 1916 |
Belcher S D |
Royal Garrison Artillery |
7th August 1917 |
Betchley C F |
Royal Fusiliers |
11th April 1917 |
Blake W J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
30th August 1916 |
Brooks F G |
Royal Army Service Corps |
9th October 1919 |
Burn A S |
Australian Light Horse |
29th August 1915 |
Camden E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
25th September 1915 |
Carvey E C |
Berkshire Yeomanry |
11th December 1915 |
Chapman H |
Royal Engineers |
19th June 1917 |
Chittenden H |
Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
16th April 1917 |
Cowley H W |
26th Training Reserve Battalion |
14th September 1917 |
Cross F H |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
28th April 1917 |
Deacon H |
Coldstream Guards |
31st July 1917 |
Dennis G |
Royal Navy |
31st May 1916 |
Dicker C |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
2nd December 1917 |
Dowse A G |
Worcestershire Regiment |
1st November 1918 |
Dowse W H |
Worcestershire Regiment |
1st June 1916 |
Eltham E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
25th September 1915 |
Farmer A G |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
9th December 1916 |
Farmer W H |
Hampshire Regiment |
10th January 1916 |
Fleetwood A |
Royal Engineers |
1st July 1916 |
Gibbs G W |
Royal Army Service Corps |
26th June 1918 |
Giddings C |
Coldstream Guards |
13th April 1918 |
Giddings F MM |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
2nd December 1917 |
Giddings F W |
Leicestershire Regiment |
3rd April 1918 |
Gilbert L J |
East Kent Regiment |
7th February 1916 |
Goddard O G |
Berkshire Yeomanry |
21st August 1915 |
Goddard R A |
Ox & Bucks Light Infantry |
7th October 1916 |
Green A H |
Worcestershire Regiment |
27th March 1918 |
Greenaway S G |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
25th September 1915 |
Hankins F J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
October 1916 |
Harris R R |
Berkshire Yeomanry |
21st August 1915 |
Hatt F W |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
15th June 1916 |
Haynes A E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
17th June 1917 |
Hermon W A |
Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment |
18th November 1916 |
Holloway F |
Hampshire Regiment |
22nd April 1918 |
Hurst J R |
London Rifle Brigade |
24th November 1916 |
Jarvis A J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
25th September 1915 |
Jeffries H |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
29th September 1918 |
Johnson A E |
Royal Scots Fusiliers |
2nd November 1914 |
Johnson W |
Sherwood Foresters |
9th August 1915 |
Jones H H |
Berks Yeomanry |
24th August 1917 |
Josey F J |
Berks Yeomanry |
11th December 1915 |
Keep P W MM |
Grenadier Guards |
29th March 1918 |
Lanfear S |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
3rd August 1916 |
Leicester T J |
Berks Yeomanry |
31st March 1918 |
Lovegrove R N |
Berks Yeomanry |
21st August 1915 |
Lovegrove W J |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
12th October 1917 |
Matthews F J |
Coldstream Guards |
22nd December 1914 |
McMullen E |
Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment |
22nd May 1918 |
Morley W J |
Royal Engineers |
17th January 1921 |
Muddle R E |
East Surrey Regiment |
9th April 1918 |
Mulford F |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
19th July 1916 |
Mulford R C A |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
23rd July 1916 |
Nichols R W |
Canadian Infantry |
23rd October 1916 |
Parker G |
Unit Unknown |
Date Unknown |
Pegler C R |
Royal Naval Air Service |
12th July 1917 |
Phillips W D |
Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
29th September 1918 |
Pierpoint G E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
18th August 1917 |
Pillow S T R |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
2nd September 1916 |
Pinn H E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
11th December 1914 |
Ponsonby G M |
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
31st August 1914 |
Quicke W J |
Royal Engineers |
26th September 1915 |
Randall C E |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
27th May 1918 |
Richings T O |
Royal Field Artillery |
2nd May 1918 |
Rolls W |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
16th October 1916 |
Rose E |
Unit Unknown |
Date Unknown |
Serman A A W |
Ox & Bucks Light Infantry |
16th August 1917 |
Sheppard S G DSO |
Hertfordshire Yeomanry |
21st August 1915 |
Sims E J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
1st November 1916 |
Sims F |
Manchester Regiment |
7th April 1917 |
Swanson G W |
Royal Air Force / Hampshire Regiment |
10th October 1918 |
Tombs H |
Royal Berkshire Regiment / Labour Corps |
11th September 1917 |
Turk F S |
Rifle Brigade |
21st October 1915 |
Warman C |
Machine Gun Corps |
1st August 1917 |
Warner W |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
15th March 1915 |
Welch M W |
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry |
4th October1917 |
Wheeler D M |
London Regiment |
7th December 1917 |
Wheeler G G |
Royal Air Force |
11th July 1918 |
Wheeler G M |
Seaforth Highlanders |
9th May 1915 |
Williams W |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Willis A |
Royal Marines Light Infantry |
31st May 1916 |
Woolford A E |
East Yorkshire Regiment |
27th May 1918 |
Wantage Roll of Honour
World War II
Akers C W |
Royal Air Force |
14th September 1945 |
Alder A J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
1st June 1940 |
Anns A H |
Royal Air Force |
1st October 1940 |
Arnold C W |
Royal Air Force |
20th January 1942 |
Beechey R |
Royal Navy |
6th October 1942 |
Bishop H W |
Royal Artillery |
7th January 1943 |
Bourton J J |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
28th May 1940 |
Champ W G |
South Wales Borderers |
15th January 1945 |
Clegg D H |
Merchant Navy |
11th December 1940 |
Cooper N A |
Royal Air Force |
4th July 1941 |
Davies G D |
Royal Air Force |
17th July 1941 |
Dowse A J |
Royal Air Force |
14th February 1942 |
Dowse L V |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
29th May 1940 |
Frank J |
1st Armoured Division US Army |
25th May 1944 |
Gitsham W L H DSM |
Royal Navy |
8th May 1943 |
Green G G |
Royal Air Force |
13th October 1944 |
Hale C A |
Sherwood Foresters |
23rd September 1944 |
Hale G L |
Pioneer Corps |
16th December 1944 |
Hall G T |
Royal Air Force |
27th April 1941 |
Harris A G |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
10th May 1940 |
Harris T C |
Royal Artillery |
11 th September 1943 |
Hooper A |
Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment |
3rd March 1945 |
Hughes R F |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
25th May 1940 |
Hughes W G |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
24th May 1940 |
Humphries S P |
Royal Navy |
30th December 1943 |
Hunt W |
Scots Guards |
29th April 1943 |
Kelly W G |
Royal Artillery |
6th November 1941 |
Kennedy L |
King's Liverpool Regiment |
18th April 1944 |
Kinchin L T |
Royal Air Force |
8th October 1940 |
Lovegrove A L |
Royal Marines |
13th November 1940 |
Meade J A |
Northamptonshire Regiment |
28th April 1944 |
Owen W R |
Royal Air Force |
29th January 1944 |
Passey A R |
Royal Navy |
24th May 1941 |
Pierpoint V L J |
Royal Marines |
17th October 1939 |
Poulter R J |
Royal Air Force |
29th December 1943 |
Pounds E H J |
Royal Air Force |
13th February 1943 |
Read R G |
Border Regiment |
6th July 1944 |
Rose F A |
REME |
31st December 1944 |
Rowland P E |
Merchant Navy |
27th February 1941 |
Symonds G J |
Royal Air Force |
8th April 1945 |
Tennyson d'Eyncourt R E L |
Coldstream Guards |
20th February 1945 |
Wells E F (P) |
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
31st May 1940 |
White C A |
Royal Air Force |
25th August 1944 |
Wiggins E E J |
Royal Air Force |
7th June 1944 |
Wood K R |
Royal Air Force |
10th July 1941 |
Woodward H W |
Ox & Bucks Light Infantry |
10th May 1945 |
Wyatt S E |
RAMC |
2nd November 1944 |
Yeomans G H |
Merchant Navy |
10th March 1943 |
World War II Civilians
Embling W J |
Engineer RAF (Harwell) |
26th August 1940 |
Gibbs R F |
Engineer RAF (Harwell) |
26th August 1940 |
Shuff S |
Berkshire Constabulary |
30th November 1940 |
Malaya
Kent W |
Royal Air Force |
15th February 1951 |
Iraq
Stead D |
Royal Air Force |
30th January 2005 |
Qatar
Holms S |
Royal Logistics Corps |
14th October 2007 |