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Barkham Remembers Barkham Parish Council is recognising the sacrifices of local men and centenary of the outbreak of WWI by… Read more…
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Today Sunday 14th September. Meet us at the Town Hall from 11am
Today is Wokingham's Heritage Day and this year we examine the research put together by many of Wokingham's local history… Read more…
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For me, this is possibly the most fascinating and the saddest part of the research. Once we discovered the stories… Read more…
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Film of the Wokingham men we lost in 1914
What was the impact of World War One on Wokingham in 1914? Here is a short film which shows the… Read more…
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Wokingham Families: The Purseys, Brants, Rances and Alexanders
Wokingham Families and the Great War. Recalling the 1914-18 war often involves descriptions of military strategy and the bewildering numbers… Read more…
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The importance of newspapers as source material
Newspapers provide invaluable sources of information for historians seeking to present the Great War from varying positions. They also help… 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 local historians who pointed to Wokingham's Future
Edna Goatley passed away on Wednesday the 3rd April 2013 at the age 86 years. Her funeral takes place at… 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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The Great War: 1915 – Wokingham’s Volunteers go into battle.
Today’s article focuses on the names listed on the Town Hall War Memorial and their part in a war which… Read more…
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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
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On behalf of Redhill Centre for Local & Family History