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Monday 4 August 2014

Stanford Rivers: First World War Fallen

The High Country History Group is preparing a book to commemorate the beginning of the First World War with a comprehensive record of those who died and are remembered from the four parishes of Greensted, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount.

Martyn Lockwood, its author, would be interested to hear from relatives, especially if photographs survive, of those listed below.

The War Memorial tablet for Stanford Rivers is in St Margaret’s Church and was dedicated in December 1922.

It includes the following names:
-         George Aldridge
-         William Aldridge
-         William Attridge
-         James Brown
-         John Cable
-         Mark Cable
-         Richard J Crow(e)
-         Ernest S Doe
-         William Downham
-         Frank J Gardiner
-         George Green
-         William King M.M.
-         Arthur Knight
-         William E Millbank
-         Arthur Newman
-         Cecil A Oakley
-         Ernest Staines
-         Frank Staines
-         Thomas Staines
-         Francis A Thorogood

In addition the following are the names of men born in Stanford Rivers who were killed in WWI and who are not mentioned on the war memorial.

 Comyns Owers
 William Ernest East
 Percy Fincham
 Robert George Turner
 Charles Saville
 Charles John Penson
 John Reed
 Frederick Charles Talbot
 Frederick Butcher
 Alfred Douglas Clements
 Edwin Staines
Wilfred John Tarling

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