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Victor Nicholson visit: Mike Read Interview
Click to hear the latest interview with Mike Read of BBC Radio Berkshire (or click on picture):
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Local exhibition for India’s warriors of the Great War
An exhibition organised by the Wokingham and Reading Sikh community will recount India’s support for the British Empire during World… 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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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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Incredible website to incredible maps!
Arborfield historian Steve Bacon, sent a link to an incredible website which overlays old maps onto new ones ! The… Read more…
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BBC’s ‘Birdsong’ and the story of the miners in The Great War
Birdsong has completed its two episodes on the BBC. Author, Sebastian Faulkes tells us of a story about a soldier… Read more…
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Visit to Dachau – Summer 2013.
Here are some notes from a family visit to Dachau in the summer of 2013. It was part of a… Read more…
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Another casualty of the Great War: Wokingham's Mayor.
Our focus on the government of the Great War tends to be at national level, but Jim Bell’s extensive research… Read more…
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We continue the conversation between Ken Goatley and his old friend Cecil Culver. Ken: "You were talking about the milkman… Read more…
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1914 – The 9th Lancers and Europe’s last charge.
Frederick Allfrey at the age of 22 was a Lieutenent in the 9th Lancers and killed in the minutes following… 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
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Gladys
Edith
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Steve
On behalf of Redhill Centre for Local & Family History