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Hills Nicholson family: Four sons lost in two World Wars
The Nicholson family have no Wokingham street or building named after them and have sunk below the consciousness of today's… Read more…
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Jim Bell's new book: Memories of Wokingham Town Hall 1947-2005
For the most part, the histories presented in this Wokingham Remembers page are of events steeped in a past which… Read more…
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WW2 Garth: Wokingham's Destroyer
Jim Bell provides us with a fascinating insight into Wokingham's contribution to World War Two. Here we learn of how… Read more…
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Great Britain: Changing into the 20th Century (Part One)
The Great War was not just about loss and victory; we understand it to be Britain's watershed of change during… Read more…
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What was in the Wokingham news during the Great War ?
These articles are all taken from one of the area’s principal newspapers, “The Reading Mercury (also including Oxford Gazette, Newbury… Read more…
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Names on St Paul's Church Memorial: St Paul's Church was built by John Walter, entirely at his own expense, during… Read more…
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Cecil Culver's Wokingham. Three: Fun, Friendship, Fraternity.
Jim Bell's final instalment of the life of Cecil Culver tells us about how the Wokingham community organised its leisure and the… Read more…
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Journey to the centre of the dark Forest
In last week’s article we discovered the origins of the Royal Windsor Forest and its influence on the early communities… Read more…
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The Great War: “I just think of all the poor mothers”
Mother's Day: Thinking of Mothers Past. Although we have posted over 200 biographies of the men of Wokingham on this… Read more…
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Great Uncle William Churcher killed during the Bombing of West Hartlepool
In 1989, I began my own journey of tracing the Churcher family tree. I was eventually to be introduced to… Read more…
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Names C
The following WW1 names appear on the memorial inside Wokingham Town Hall. Click on a name to discover their biography:
Gerald Raymond Carey : Ernest Challis : William Challis : Charles Chamberlain : Frederick Chambers : Albert Chandler : JR Chandler: Leslie Joseph Chaston : Harry Chivers : Albert A Clarke : Walter Clayton : Charles H Clements : William A Cockrell : John Ernest Collins : Charles Dan Collyer : Henry Collyer: William Collyer : Henry Cooper : Norman W Cooper: Samuel Henry Cooper : Hector Corbyn : Philip Victor Cornish : John Edward Cotterell : John Croome :
SURVIVED: Henry George Caiger – 1892 to 1962
Lance Corporal Sydney Coles B.1883 Wokingham of 6th Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment – Son of John and Alice Mary Coles of Nine Mile Ride (1911 census)
Found on your Ancestry Tree page
Please note that Sydney is also on the Roll of Honour at Holy Trinity Church, Redhill, Surrey near to where he lived at Monson Road, Redhill in 1911 census
Siblings
Caroline
Ada
Gladys
Edith
Regards
Steve
On behalf of Redhill Centre for Local & Family History