Graves in St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Oxford with inscriptions to people who died in the First World War
There are no Commonwealth War Graves in St Sepulchre’s Cemetery; but there are a number of inscriptions in remembrance of family members who died in the First World War and were buried overseas or whose bodies were never found.
Each name in the left-hand column below is linked directly to the section on their family biography page where details of their war service are given.
Right: The only woman remembered in St Sepulchre’s
Cemetery who died while serving in the First World War
Private in the OBLI |
Stepson of William BARNES and son of Mrs Emily BARNES, formerly Mrs ADAMS, née Farley St Bernard’s Road Row 29, Grave L61 |
Sister in the Territorial Army Nursing Service |
Daughter of John BLENCOWE, the baker at 20 Kingston Road, and Mrs Emma BLENCOWE, née Young Bainton Road Row 33, Grave K44 |
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Gunner in Canadian Field Artillery |
Son of Alfred BROOKE, Chief Clerk to the Oxford Gas Company and Mrs Agnes BROOKE, née Castle Warnborough Road Row 22, Grave F25 |
Private in the OBLI |
Remembered on the grave of Henry HESTER Observatory Street Row 2, Grave A22½ |
Captain in the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry |
Son of Alfred DAVENPORT, a solicitor, Lived at 62 St Giles’s Street |
Serjeant in the London Regiment |
Son of George DREW, a bricklayer, Nelson Street Row 43, Grave N60 |
Private in the OBLI |
Sons of Thomas HOWKINS, an ink-maker, and Mrs Harriet Margaret HOWKINS, née Hearn, a tailoress Kingston Road Row 29, Grave H22½ |
Private in the OBLI |
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Company Sergeant Major, London Regiment |
Son of Henry JOHNSON, who was superintendent of St Sepulchre’s Cemetery for 25 years, and Mrs Elizabeth Johnson, née Jones Cemetery Lodge, Walton Street Row 2, Grave B39 |
Private in the Border Regiment |
Son of Augustine Margetts KEARSEY, a furniture dealer and Mrs Eliza KEARSEY, née Russell Albert Street Row 8, Grave B24 |
Private in the Worcestershire Regiment
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Sons of John Samuel LOWE, a commercial traveller wrongly presumed dead, and Mrs Florence Alice Louisa LOWE, née Sheppard St John Street Row 34, Grave L56½ |
Private in the OBLI |
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Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2nd (London) Sanitary Company, attached 85th Sanitary Section |
Son of Ernest RAWLINS-INNS, a builder, and Mrs Martha Emily RAWLINS-INNS, née Walton 36 Juxon Street, Jericho Row 34, Grave L47½ |
Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry |
Son of Thomas Alexander SYMMONS and 5 St Barnabas Street Row 22, Grave G48½ |
Private in the London Regiment |
Son of Frank Alfred THOMAS and St Michael’s Street Row 47, Grave N48
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Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery |
Son of Jesse James & Annie WARD 14 Canal Street Row 52, Grave F20 |
Also remembering
An “enemy alien” who lived in Jericho
John Ubinger, who was a Bavarian musician, settled in Oxford in 1898 after marrying the Jericho girl Sarah Ann Hounslow. He did not get naturalized, so when the war broke out he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man. After contracting tuberculosis there, he was returned to Germany, where he died on 25 April 1917. His wife remembers him on their son’s grave
A man who died in 1923, but as a result of the war
Frederick George Montague Bellamy, who had emigrated to Canada, fought for the Canadian forces in the First World War. He was injured near the end of the war and was returned to Canada in 1919 and spent five years in hospitals there before he died. He is buried at Edmonton, Alberta, but is remembered on his parent’s grave in St Sepulchre’s Cemetery
