Remember the Men, Not Just Their Names
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4 Milton Keynes Citizen, Thursday, November 11, 2010 www.miltonkeynes.co.uk REMEMBRANCE DAY SPECIAL FEATURE SillySilly Remember the men, SillySillySaleSeen apiece of jewellery not just their names in ourwindow display... INSCRIPTIONS on a war memorial board (right) featuring some of the represent much more than simply stories he has uncovered. If theprice If theprice If theprice names and dates. The board will be displayed in hasa1 hasa2 hasa3 That is the message the the church, which will be holding in it,you get in it,you get in it,you get Reverend Dave Bell from St Mary’s two Remembrance services in Shenley Church End wants to get on Sunday. A Remembrance across this Remembrance Day. Communion will be held at 9.30am The vicar is keen for people and a 10.45am service will start at to understand the very human the War Memorial on Shenley Road, 10% 20% 30% sacrifices made by some of those followed by a service in the church. named on the war memorial at St Mr Bell said: “Their sacrifice Mary’s. is deeply connected to our Along with congregation member community, and as a community Colin Best, Mr Bell has carried out we will remember this.” OFF OFF OFF research into those war heroes Two of the stories he uncovered e.g. £110=10% discount e.g. £215=20% discount e.g. £135=30% discount and created a special display are detailed below: CAPTAIN JAMES DOUGLAS WADDELL – 12TH BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS JAMIE is ‘the man from the wrote “never have machine guns big house’ – Shenley House, had such straightforward work owned by his father. He was a to do”. professional soldier who knew Senior officers were worried his trade. about how the men would cope Kitchener had called – would they run? Refuse to for volunteers and was leave the trenches? So they were overwhelmed by those who ordered to walk, not run, as it was wanted to do their bit.The thought that running might cause 12th battalion were K3 – part panic. of the third wave of 100,000 The Fusiliers had nothing but volunteers only weeks after the their courage as they walked AndrewCharles Jeweller across no-man’s land, and held war started. 46 HighStreetNewport PagnellMK16 8AQ 01908 613534 Whether Jamie had left the on all night fighting hand-to-hand army and re-joined in 1914 as a at times, until they ran out of This offer is for avery limited period &cannot be combined with any other offer.Applies to items with acost of £100 or over.Terms &Conditions apply “dug out”, or whether he was a grenades and ammunition, and serving officer drafted in to try then those of them that were left to knock the civilian volunteers walked back. of Kitchener’s army into shape The casualties for the army as we do not know – many Army a whole were huge – 43,000. If records were destroyed in the it were not for the battle of the blitz. They arrived in France in Somme the next year, Loos would September 1915, and spent 10 be a familiar name to all of us. days travelling to where they Nothing was gained. The front would start their first battle: moved not a single foot. Loos, the “Big Push” that would The fusiliers lost their break through and end the war. lieutenant colonel and four They spent most of officers. Of the men themselves September 24 marching up the front line trenches on the 84 were killed, 142 missing, and 27 to the front through chaotic morning of Sunday, September wounded. crowds and traffic, and 25, wet, exhausted. And, Jamie was lost in the mud, occasional explosions.They presumably, frightened. The along with most of those 142 spent all night marching machine guns were deadly across ‘missing’. He is listed at Dud through a horrendous the appallingly open fields.The Corner cemetery, and on his thunderstorm, and arrived in German 26th Infantry regiment mother’s grave at St Mary’s. LEADING STOKER GEORGE COX GEORGE Cox was born in 1877 son on. Four months before he died of James and Martha in Deddington, he is transferred to hospital with two miles south west of Banbury, what eventually turns out to be Oxfordshire. By 1891 the family were TB. He is discharged as medically living in Loughton, George’s father was unfit for service and a month an agricultural labourer and George at after returning home he died. the age of 12 was a farm boy. The article describes his In 1897, George joined the Royal funeral, a wet July afternoon. Navy. He went to his first ship, HMS His elm coffin, covered in the Diadem, as a Stoker 2nd Class, before Union flflagag with his cap on top, serving on a further 13 ships over the was drawn to St Mary’s church next 18 years. by eight men from the Signal During the First World War, George Section, Royal Engineers based serves on HMS Southampton, where at Fenny. in May 1915 the ship was in the The coffin was met by Rev Dardenelles supporting the allied JR Vincent and rested in the landings in Gallipoli. He then transferred entrance to the chancel during to HMS Canada, just missing the Battle the service. In the evening the of Jutland. He served on this ship for Shenley ringers rang a half seven months, and on April 1 returned peal, with mufflmuffleded bells and the to the UK. On his service record he is church flag flew at half mast. invalided from the Navy and returns His grave is marked with a home and died on July 12, 1916. large iron cross. The Bucks Standard dated July 15, It is interesting that George’s 1916 states about two years previous grave is not marked by an George had suffered a nervous offificialcial war grave, the reasoning breakdown, but courageously carried behind this is not known. ROLL OF HONOUR: Shenley War Memorial bears the names of Shenley’s First World War heroes www.miltonkeynes.co.uk Milton Keynes Citizen, Thursday, November 11, 2010 11 MOVES to adopt Single/Double summertime would involve Britain effectively taking on Central European time to allow brighter Feedback evenings. 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