Chalgrove Men Who Served in World War One Remembered
This is an ongoing project. Military service details of 73 men who were born and/or lived in Chalgrove before the First World War have been identified. Much has been learned and continues to be discovered about where they served, in which capacity they served, and their Chalgrove connections. The educational and interest value of the project is not solely dependent upon archival research but has been greatly enhanced by family memories, stories, photographs, documents and other memorabilia.
Beginning in 2014 the research team presented a series of annual exhibitions in the village each of which displayed some of the information and material which had been gathered and continued to be gathered. These culminated with an exhibition in the village hall on Rememberance Sunday 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
The team who put the information for the exhibitions together are now working on collating the information for future publishing.
| Contacts for this project is: | ||
| John Steel-Clark | 01865 890308 | |
Chalgrove War Memorial
On the war memorial there are incised the names of 12 men who made the ultimate sacrifice in WW1. These are listed below and by clicking on individual names you may be connected to the relevant pages on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
| Name | Date Died | Where Buried or Remembered |
| Joe Atkins | 23 March 1918 | Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Ernest Belson | 1 July 1916 | Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Somme, France |
| Jesse Belson | 13 October 1915 | Loos Memorial, Loos-en-Gohelle, France |
| Francis Brown | 19 June 1915 | Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium |
| Joseph Clements | 22 July 1916 | Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetry, St Omer, Pas de Calais, France |
| James Franklin | 5 December 1916 | Etaples Military Cemetery, Étaples, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Ernest Hicks | 6 August 1916 | Loos Memorial, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Stanley Hicks | 14 April 1918 | Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium |
| Thomas Hicks | 15 June 1916 | Cabaret Rouge British Cemetry, Souchez, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
| George Hurst | 26 October 1917 | Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium |
| Albert King | 25 September 1915 | Loos Memorial, Loos-en-Gohelle, France |
| Horace Lacey | 17 March 1916 | Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium |
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