In common with many
parishes across the country, Branksome lost many of its young men
during the two World Wars and indeed during more recent
conflicts. In remembrance of the sacrifice they made, St
Aldhelm`s Church has a fine wooden wall plaque which has been hand painted with
these men's names. These names are shown below with the kind permission of the
Church.
"Remember
before God's throne these men of Branksome who died for you
and for their country 1914 - 1918"
Walter Frederick Adams
Alexander George Jermyn Alderson
Fred Allen
Henry John Anthony
Ernest Reginald Aston
Alfred N Ayley
Frederick Henry Beckwith
Edgar Hamilton Beech
Albert Thomas Benneton
Claude Trelease Bickel
William Bogart
John Burnham
Sydney Walter Burrell
Albert Calder
Wilfred Chamberlain
Charles William Clark M.M
Harold Stephen Colborne
Charles Cooling
Leonard Augustus Court
Edward William Cuff
Clement John Barnard Cullum
Edwin Cutter
John Henry Dean
Victor Evans
Terence Doyne Finch
Erleigh Footner
Robert Gale
Albert Garland
Alfred Ambrose Gray
Alfred James Green
Theodore Grimshaw
John Henry Hammett
James Henry Harding
William Alfred Herbert
Charles Hope
Albert James Houston
Joseph Hughes
Robert Hutchinson
Fredereick Charles Kellaway
Frederick George Keniston
Robert King
Henry Buchanan Kirk
Bernard David Knight
Francis Courtnay Lambert
Frederick Walter Legg
John Lovegrove
William Forsyth Macandrew
Frank Marler
Hylton Hayward May
Harry Miller
Oliver Miller
Reginald Charles Morgan
Bernard Joseph Morrell
William Antony Morrell
William George Moyle
Charles Otto Newman
William Norton
William Osman
Frederick Charles Pennistone
Charles Henry John Penney
Sydney Herbert Pick
Leonard Rossiter Pool
Herbert Allen Price M.C.
Percy Walter Rendell
George Sedwell M.M.
Reginald Sharp
Fred James Langtry Smith
Frederick Stock
William Walter Carter Strange
Joseph James Sturmey
Bertie John Tapping
Percy Jesse Tapping
Frederick Herman Tate
William Louis Tate
Trevor Tatham
Duncan Collinson Willey Thomas
Henry Stanley Toppin L d'H
Sydney Miles Toppin M.C.
John William Tregillis
Edmund Ernest Trent
George Trickett
Francis Watson
Humphry Wilmot Watson
John Wayman
George Bolton Willis
Kenneth H Woodroffe
Leslie Woodroffe M.C
Sydney C Woodroffe V.C.
Harry Young
"Also for the men who gave their lives in the 1939-1945 War"
Norman Richard Banks
Cyril Batchford
Maurice E Charles Bird
James K Stewart Carlile
Lionel Cooper
Charles Cornish
Terence Davey
Hugh Evans
Edward Everett
Harry Ernest Goom
Peter Hinves
Willam James
George Underhill Jay
Victor Leak
Donald Loader
Ernest Loader
Claude Marvin
Phillip John Melhuish
John Pershouse O'Brien
Howard Paskins
Thomas Pollard
William Savage
Albert Percy Wellstead
and Brian John Short, killed at Suez, 6th November 1956
Instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria, was to be the most democratic honour in
military and naval history. It was ruled that "neither rank, nor long
service, nor wounds, nor any other circumstance whatsoever, save the merit of
conspicuous bravery" should establish a sufficient claim to the honour.
All those eligible were to be considered "on a perfectly equal footing".
The Gas Plaques
Installed within the Church are two bronze plaques which commemorate the dead
within the two world wars killed whilst working for the local gas works. There
names are remembered every year during the remembrance day service and are:-