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