The picture perfect St James’ Church of Barkham in Berkshire
Barkham Remembers Barkham Parish Council is recognising the sacrifices of local men and centenary of the outbreak of WWI by joining with Wokingham Town Council in their Wokingham Remembers activities including the borough-wide Heritage Memorial Trail which includes research on two residents from Barkham, who were killed in service of their country. These are Edward Sturges and Frederick Lailey. Since then other discoveries have been made of those buried or mentioned on gravestones in the churchyard of St James who fought in the Great War, This includes Reginald Arthur Smith who was also killed in WW1 and Frederick Ernest Hutt who died after the War had ended as a result of its effects on him, there are also details of his three brothers who also served. Also John Francis Coston who died in 1922 and Alfred Thomas Key a sailor in the Royal Navy who is buried on the Greek island of Lemnos.
Janet Firth is the brains behind this endeavour and the biographies (with great detail) can be found here
The Wokingham Remembers trail can be found here