Roll of Honour - Oxfordshire - Shipton on Cherwell

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SHIPTON ON CHERWELL AND THRUPP WAR MEMORIALS

World War 1 & 2 & India - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Gill Cannell & Andrew Dishman 2026

The Shipton on Cherwell and Thrupp war memorial is to be found on the south wall of the nave in Holy Cross Church, Canal-Side, off Church Lane, Shipton on Cherwell, Cherwell, Oxfordshire. It takes the form of a wall mounted portrait orientated treble-curve headed wooden frame housing an inscription and names panel with black lettering with an ornate cross at top of frame and decorative gold coloured inlays around frame. There are four names for World War 1 and four names for World War 2. Additionally there is a plaque to a man who served in India in the 19th century

Photographs Copyright © Gill Cannell & Andrew Dishman 2026

REMEMBER
THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE TWO GREAT WARS

1914-1918

COOPER

Walter

No further information currently

HINTON

Alfred [Willie]

In the 1901 census he was the son of Albert and Sarah J Hinton, aged 9, born Wiltshire, resident Shipton on Cherwell, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In the 1911 census he was the son of Albert and Sarah Jane Hinton, aged 19, born Charlton, Wiltshire, an Elementary school teacher, resident Shipton on Cherwell Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

PARROTT

Allan [B]

[Spelt Alan, Allen, Allan] probably Private 5110, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 23 July 1916. Resident Kidlington, Oxon, enlisted Oxford. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10 A and 10 D.

In the 1901 census he was the son of Benjamin and Charlotte C Parrott, aged 3, born Shipton on Cherwell, Oxfordshire, resident Shipton House, Shipton on Cherwell, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

PARROTT

Denys [Hele]

Lieutenant, 2nd/17th (County of London) Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), London Regiment. Killed in action 30 April 1918. Aged 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Parrott, of Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxon. Buried in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza). Section N. Grave 64.

1939-1945

BULFORD

Patrick Gordon

Lieutenant 184575, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died 26 August 1944. Aged 24. Son of Gordon J. E. Bulford and Phyllis Bulford, of Thrup, Oxfordshire. Buried in BEUZEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Eure, France. Grave 2.

COLES

Joseph

Lance Corporal 5389440, 2nd/7th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). Died 3 March 1945. Aged 29. Son of Joseph H. and Harriett Marie Coles; husband of Alice Coles, of Thrup, Oxfordshire. Buried in FORLI WAR CEMETERY, Italy. Plot V. Row B. Grave 23.

DUNCAN

Christoper [James]

Midshipman (S), H.M.S. Orion, Royal Navy. Died at sea due to enemy action when his ship was bombed and badly damaged while transporting 1900 evacuated troops, 29 May 1941. In the 1921 cnsus he was the son of George and Edith Marhorie Duncan, aged 1, born Oxfordshire, resident The Rectory, Shipton on Cherwell, Kidlington, Shipton on Cherwell, Oxfordshire. No known grave. Commemorated on PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Devon. Panel 45, Column 1.

FREARSON

[Frederick] John

Flying Officer 156827, 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 2 November 1944. Aged 22. Son of Frederick Henry and Rebecca Alice Frearson, of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Buried in ERP ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Grave 4.

Brass Plaque

To the glory of God
In memory of Horace Cowley Brown
A captain in Her Majesty’s Royal Regiment of Artillery
Who died of injuries received in the discharge of his duty.
This window is here set.
Anno Domini MDCCCLXXIII
Aetatis XXXIV.

BROWN

Horace Cowley

Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery. Died of injuries 14 March 1873, aged 34. Appointed to the Bombay Artillery 12 June 1857. Admitted 5 October 1857 to British India Office Army & Navy Pensions in Bombay. Promed Lieutenant in 1865.

Extract from Dundee Courier 23 April 1873, page 4:

BROWN. —At Sooe, on the Sinde frontier, on the 14th inst., from injuries received from an explosion while firing a mine, Horace Cowley Brown, Captain Royal Artillery, third son of the late G. F. Brown, Esq., Bengal Civil Service.

Last updated 24 July, 2026

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