We will remember them

"When you go home tell them of us and say -
For your tomorrow we gave our today"

Today at St John's Church a new plaque was dedicated by Canon Gaunt Hunter to 9 fallen soldiers who were missed off of the original memorial. It was very moving as the British Legion had managed to contact some of the families and some of them were their today to lay a wreath of poppies to remember their relative.

Black L G
Day A
Norman W
Skelton B D
Skelton H
Aylott LA
Borradaile AG
Felton GW
Hall SG
Wilson HR

Some of these men have graves in the churchyard.

Leslie Gordon Black, Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy Vol. Reserves, "Hawke" Bn. R.N. Div.
Died 13 December 1916 aged 32 of wounds received in the advance on the Ancre. The son of Charlotte Black and the late George Ralph Black. Lesley was born in Buckhurst Hill and lived at Munton Villa, Buckhurst Hill with his parents and brothers and sisters. Leslie re-enlisted in 1914 and became Platoon Commander ‘A’ Company on 7th Feb 1916. The 1914 Star was issued to his mother in 1919.

Alfred Day, Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, 11th Bn, 62338. Died 27th November 1918 aged 49. Son of Robert and Emily Day, of Buckhurst Hill.

Commr William Norman RNR Torpedoed in Irish Sea 18th October 1918.

Leonard Alfred Aylott, Sergeant W. Op, RAF Volunteer Reserves, 233 Sqdn, 747979. Died 15th April 1941 aged 32, Leonard Alfred Aylott was born 1908, his dad Harry Herbert Aylott was a Railway goods guard, his mum Ellen Aylott (nee Tarling) was from Buckhurst Hill. Leonard was killed, along with his crewmen Douglas Green, Pilot, Fredrick Lown, Co-Pilot and Wilfred Rooks, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, when their plane crashed on Ben Lui in Central Scotland during the evening of 15th April 1941 in poor weather conditions. http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/scotland/scotlandt9432.htm

Stanley George Hall, Flying Officer Navigator, Royal Canadian Air Force, 427 Sqdn, J/39298. Died 25 November 1944 aged 22. The son of Norman Ambrose Hall and Eleanor Kathleen Hall, of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada, remembered with war grave at St John’s, Buckhurst Hill.

Colonel Harold Rene Wilson DSO TD DL, Home Guard, 54th Essex Bn Born 8th February 1890, Died 28th January 1941 aged 50 Son of Arthur Needham Wilson, A.R.I.B.A. and Augustine Amante Lodoiska Wilson; husband of Alice Isabella Wilson (nee Duff), of Buckhurst Hill. Mentioned in dispatches whilst serving as Capt. in the Royal Artillery in the 1914-18 War. D.L. (Essex)

We will remember them

For a full list of those listed on the memorials in Buckhust Hill visit http://buckhurst-hill-history.btck.co.uk/War%20Memorial