During 2015 - 2018 Churchill Methodist Church commemorated veterans of World War 1 who died during the war and came from the Churchill area. This happened in the Sunday Service as close as possible to the centenary of their death. The 100th Anniversary of the Armistice passed in 2018 but we are keeping details of the fallen of Churchill on our website - Their Name Liveth For Evermore - we will remember them!
Sunday 15th February 2015
Sapper Colin Henry Roynoon
of the Royal Engineers 1st (South Midland) Filed Company was killed in action on 15/2/1915 aged 25. He is buried at Wytschaete Military Cemetary, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Sunday 17th May 2015
Private Frederick James Miller
of the North Somerset Yeomanry was killed in action on 13/5/1915, aged 30. He is commemorated on panel 5 of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
Private Francis George Davey
of the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry was killed in action on 17/5/1915. He is commemorated on panel 21 of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
Private Lewis Frederick Cox
of the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment was killed in action on 25/5/1915. He is commemorated on panel 37 of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
Sunday 23rd August 2015
Private James Hugh Horne
of B Squadron Dorset yeomanry (Queens Own) was killed in action in Gallipoli on 21/8/1915 aged 22. he is commemorated on panels 17 7 18 of the Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Sunday 24th April 2016
Private Edward J. Atkins
who was a Private in the Somerset Light Infantry before transferring to the 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on 21st April 2016 in Mesopotamia and his name is on the Basra Memorial.
Sunday 3rd July 2016
Lance Corporal John Stembridge Burge
Killed in action 1/7/1916 aged 21 whlist serving as a Lance Corporal with the 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (15990) attached to the Royal Engineers. His name is recored on the Thiepval Memeporial (Pier face 2A). The men whose names are commemorated on this section of the memorial all died before 20th March 1918 in the Somme battle sector and have no known grave.
Sunday 13th August 2017
Second Lieutenant William Deacon Hayman
was a serving in the 1st/11th Battallion of the Hampshire Regiment when he was killed in action on 13/8/1917 aged 20. He is buried at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetary, near West Vlaanderen in Belgium.
Sunday 27th August 2017
Private Harold Wookey Clark
was serving in the 2nd/4th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment when he was killed in action on 27/8/1917 aged 32. He is commemorated on panels 72 - 75 of the Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Sunday 1st October 2017
Private Frederick Thomas Baker
was born in South Wales but enlisted in Weston Super Mare. He was serving in the 12th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment when he was killed in action on the 4th October 2017. He is buried at the Hooge Crater Cemetary in Belgium.
Sunday 31st December 2017
Private Percy Arthur Clark
of the Army Service Corps 29th Ammunition Sub. Park. He died of his wounds, aged 33, on 2/1/1918 and is one of only two Commonwealth servicemen buried at Fauquembergues Communal Cemetary in France
Sunday 25th March 2018
Private William Dare
of the Royal Fusiliers was killed in action in the Somme region on 27/3/1918 aged 20. He is commemorated on panel 19- 21 of the Pozieres Memorial in France
Sunday 15th April 2018
Private Alfred Manning
of the 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was killed in action 13/4/1918. He is commemorated on panel 6 of the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainhault, Belgium
Sunday 9th September 2018
Private James Joseph Roper
of the 14th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) died of his wounds on 11/9/1918, aged 25. He is buried at the Bronfay Farm Military Cemetary, Bray sur Somme, France.