This page links to details of the majority of the fallen that are recorded for perpetuity in the church. Click on a name to go to the relevant page in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) database*. Those names shown in italics will firstly take you to either a photograph of the grave/memorial OR additional notes and the CWGC page can also be accessed from these pages. Return to this window to return to the index of names.
*The CWGC website is copyright © Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Norton Adams
Harry Adlam
John Allen
George Beard
Fred Beard
Louis Boult
Leonard Bowden
Archibald Brailey
William Brailey
George Brain
Henry Brown
Ralph Buckley (Forename as Richard on CWGC)
Thomas Burt
Albert Butcher
Henry Cavill (Forename as Harry on CWGC)
Robert Chalmers
Sidney Chubb (Forename as Sydney on CWGC)
Percy Clothier
CRO Cook
Francis Cook
Thomas Coslett
William Cox
Henry Crease
William Crew
William Cunningham
Arthur Davis
James Dawe
Francis Deakin
Sidney Derrick
John Ellicott
Benjamin Ellis
Albert Elmes
William Elmes
Arthur Eves
Leonard Fisher
William Franklin
Sidney Franklin
James Friend
Ernest Garland
William German
Arthur Giddings
Walter Giddings
Charles Gill
George Gorman
Reginald Hall
Frederick Hall
Clifford Hawkins (Surname as Hawkings on CWGC)
Albert Hazell
Joseph Heathcote
Ernest Hemmens
William Hendy
Albert Hexter
Percy Hill
Ernest Hole
Herbert Hole
John Holmes
William Honeywill
Walter Howell
William Hughes
John Ings (Forename as William on CWGC)
William James (Initials as A E on CWGC)
Frederick Jeanes
Richard Jones
Clifford Keel
Wilfred Lees
William Leslie
Alfred Lewis
Percy Loud
Roderick Lush
Thomas Manning
Reginald Matthews
William May
George Monks
Thomas Monks
Albert Nash
Charles Nash
Wallace Nash
George Nethercote (Surname Nethercott on CWGC)
Ernest Norman
William Parsons
Albert Pembury
Albert Reeves
Walter Rendall (Forename as Charles on CWGC)
Percival Richards
Percy Ritchings (Surname as Richings on CWGC)
Victor Ritchings (Surname as Richings on CWGC)
Henry Roe
Walter Rue
Walter Seaborne (Surname as Seabourne on CWGC)
William Sheppard
Oliver Shorney
Ernest Smale
John Snelgrove
William Snook
George Stafford
Richard Stevens (Surname as Stephens on CWGC)
Alfred Suller
Walter Sutton
Tom Taber
Herbert Taylor
Fred Teucher (Forename as Francis on CWGC)
Albert Thick
Evan Thomas
Francis Thomas
Albert Thompson
Walter Tolley
Charles Vanstone
Bertram Vanstone
Henry Watkins
Walter Weaver
Albert Webber
Edgar White
Sidney White (Forename as Sydney on CWGC)
Sidney Wilkins
Albert Wilkins
William Willcox
Douglas Wyatt
George Yandell
Samuel Young
A small number of the fallen are at present unidentified as listed.
Arthur Andrews
William Andrews
Walter Burkitt
Harold Cook
William Crocker
Reginald Grant
William Herbert
Albert King
Alec Knight
William Lock
William Orchard
Thomas Page
Victor Pearce
William Stanley
Charles Still
Philip Willcox
Any information on these or the identified will be appreciated. Contact Norman Date
The church is fortunate to have both a Roll of Honour listing the names of the fallen from the parish, together with a Stained Glass Memorial Window, the original of which was dedicated in the year 1921. On Remembrance Sunday 2002, a book of remembrance recording further details of the majority of the fallen was dedicated.
The Roll of Honour records that the earliest casualty was George Nethercote, of the South Wales Borderers, killed on the 28th October 1914. The last casualty was George Beard, who died on the 6th January 1920. The youngest age recorded is 18 years and the oldest 52 years.
There is one member of the Merchant Navy recorded, Henry Brown, who with 130 of his shipmates was drowned when his ship SS Royal Edward was sunk by a submarine in 1915. The Naval Battle of Coronel on the 1st November 1914 claimed the lives of both William Crew and Albert Hexter. These men are included in the 675 who lost their lives when the German Battleship Nurnberg sank HMS Monmouth.
Many of the fallen are buried or commemorated in Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, having succumbed to their wounds in one of the many war hospitals in the Bristol area. The largest of these was the Beaufort War Hospital at Fishponds. This hospital is now known as Glenside and could accommodate 1,460 patients rising to some 1,640 in an emergency. The mansion at Ashton Court Estate was also used as a hospital for officers. By the end of the war over 100,000 patients had been cared for in the Bristol area.
Sadly there are four sets of relatives residing at the same address recorded on the Roll of Honour, these are Albert and William Elmes, Sidney and William Franklin, Percy and Victor Ritchings and Charles and Bertram Vanstone.
During the First World War many so called ‘Pals’ battalions were formed with the promise that ‘those who joined together would serve together’. The tragic result of this was that should there be large losses in these battalions, the resultant impact on the cities and towns and even down to individual professions would be catastrophic.
In Bristol such a battalion was formed when on September 3rd 1914, Bristol was granted permission to begin forming a 12th service Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Almost immediately it became known as ‘Bristol's Own’. It was originally planned to be 1,100 strong, but that figure was increased to 1,350 to cope with the demand. At first the boys of ‘Bristol's Own’ were allowed to live at home and many continued to work.
Eventually the temporary buildings constructed for Bristol International Exhibition at Bower Ashton were used as a headquarters for the battalion. Ashton Court Estate and Ashton Park were used for outdoor training.
The Battle of the Somme began on the 1st July 1916 and the Battalion was moved back there on July 20th. By the end of the month they were in the line facing Delville Wood or ‘Devil's Wood’ as it had already become known. ‘Bristol's Own’ received their first blooding in trench warfare, when on the 3rd September 1916 they attacked the German positions in an area known as Wedge Wood. This attack required the Battalion to advance in daylight over a distance of one and a half miles, in full view of the enemy and as a target for the murderous machine-gun and artillery fire. The attack was successful in the terms of the First World War but the cost to the ‘Bristol's’ was horrendous for in this brief action one officer and 44 men were killed and another 48 were missing. Six officers and 225 other ranks were wounded. From a total of 913 men, 324 had been killed or injured in their first full action, such was the Battle of the Somme.
The Roll of Honour records the following soldiers who served in ‘Bristol’s Own’, Albert Elmes, James Friend, Arthur Giddings, Reginald Matthews and Albert Thompson.
The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Belgium was fought between the period August – October 1917 and led to many local men becoming casualties. This battle was an attempt to secure the high ground of the Passchendaele Ridge and is remembered today for the appalling conditions in which it was fought leading to many men being lost forever in the bottomless mud. This is the reason why many fallen have no known grave and are commemorated at the Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Cemetery. It is worth recording that although the distance to be covered was only 8,000 yards, the battle resulted in over 300,000 British and Commonwealth casualties.
For The Fallen
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.