HOME GUARD MEMORIES AND INFORMATION - OXFORDSHIRE, WITNEY
3rd OXFORDSHIRE
(CHIPPING NORTON) Bttn. - WITNEY Coy.
4th
OXFORDSHIRE (BULLINGDON) Battalion
VARIOUS
GROUP IMAGESS
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Description: A group comprising (probably) the entire Witney Company of the 3rd Oxfordshire Battalion, Home Guard
Location: St. Mary's Church, Witney
Date: probably War Weapons Week, 14th September 1941; possibly on one of the anniversaries of the foundation of the Home Guard, celebrated in mid-May of each year from 1941 to 1944
Identifications: just one to date.
Ivor Rackley is seated in the front row, 7th from the left.
(Grateful acknowledgement to SR of Witney, the
great-granddaughter of Ivor Rackley).
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Description: A
section within the Witney Company of the 3rd Oxfordshire Battalion, Home Guard
Location: St. Mary's Church, Witney
Date:
unknown
Identifications: none to date.
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Description: The Witney Platoon of the 3rd Oxfordshire Battalion, Home Guard, or a section of that Platoon (but not the De Havilland Company Works Platoon).
Location: St. Mary's Church, Witney
Date: probably War Weapons Week, 14th September 1941; possibly on one of the anniversaries of the foundation of the Home Guard, celebrated in mid-May of each year from 1941 to 1944
Identifications:
Back row, second from
left -
Frank Ernest Bishop
(1906-2002 and a Witney man all his life).
(Grateful
acknowledgement to Deborah Bishop of Witney).
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Description:
A unit of the
4th Oxfordshire (Bullingdon) Battalion, Home
Guard.
Location:
unknown.
Date:
unknown, but obviously winter (perhaps
stand-down, December 1944?)
Identifications:
Second row back, third from left:
Harry Luckett
(b.1894);
next to him, fourth from left, his son,
Harry
Leslie Luckett
(b.
1916).
(Grateful
acknowledgement to Marvin Coghlan).
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Description:
Members of the Cuddesdon unit of the
4th Oxfordshire (Bullingdon) Battalion, Home
Guard.
Location:
on the bank opposite the Bat and Ball pub in
High Street with the houses of School View
behind the group.
Date:
unknown
Identifications:
(from left to right)
Back row:
Albert Spokes -
Harry Wilkinson - Nash - Malcolm Rowe -
Brane (or Brain) - Taylor - Peddar - Brown -
Norman Ried (or Reid) - Billy Ried (or Reid)
Middle row:
Victor Lockey - Ron
Shirley - Stan Lockey - Bill Cooper - Harry
Luckett - Jimmy Dean - John Shorter - Jack
Reeves
Front row:
Burgess - Arthur
Godfrey - Lambert Dexter - Archy Bestley -
Tom Bolton - Bob Sawyer - Joe Foster
N.B.
Victor Lockey was previously identified as
Fred Belcher.
Victor was the younger brother of Stan
Lockey and has been positively identified by
a family member. Later in the war he joined
the Royal Navy.
(Grateful
acknowledgement to Marvin Coghlan for image and
most identifications; and to Steve Jones for
further information).
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first two images above originate from the
Witney and District Museum, Witney, Oxfordshire via the good offices of SJ (of Oxfordshire) and AB (Warkworth, N.Z.), to all of whom grateful acknowledgement is made;
and similar acknowledgement to Deborah Bishop of Witney,
Frank Ernest Bishops's grand-daughter, for
identifications and for providing the third image; and
to Marvin Coghlan for providing the 4th
Oxfordshire images and identifications and to
Steve Jones for further information.
Third image © Deborah
Bishop 2019
Fourth and fifth image © Marvin Coghlan 2019 |
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