Oak Bay Remembers: Hampshire Road Methodist Church Honor Roll
For the story of how this document came to Oak Bay Archives and was conserved, please see this article from the Oak Bay News, May 2019.
A brief history of Hampshire Road Methodist (later United) Church can be viewed here (Gary Wilcox, Oak Bay Encyclopedia)
The WW1 Honor Roll includes 24 names, transcribed below, with rank and regimental abbreviations, which we hope will help to distinguish them from others with the same or similar names during identification. The term "Roll of Honour" is usually used when listing those who died on active service. This document is what's more often referred to as a Roll of Service, as it includes all who served, including those who returned.
For each name, we hope to be able to add their full names and life dates, further biographical detail, their Oak Bay address (bearing in mind church attendance is not aligned to municipal boundaries!), WW1 service record, and Find a Grave entry. For those who survived the war, more information may be available. For those who did not, we will try to link to their entries on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial and Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites.
We hope to discover the reason for the order of the list, since it is neither alphabetical nor by rank.
Honor Roll
Abbreviations and ditto marks are expanded below to aid in online searches.
[col. 1]
Private A. Franklin, 50 Battalion.
- full name
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private W.R. Stobart, 11 Battalion.
- William Ritson Stobart (1896-1974)
- Service record (NB misspelling of middle name "Riston" in file title)
- marriage certificate - Oak Bay, 1927
- death certificate - Cloverdale BC, 1974
Private C.H. Mumford, 67 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private A. McKissick, 1st Pioneers.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private F.S. Sandiford, 6th Engineers.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private H. Johnston, 11 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private R. Nelson, 103 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private J. Nelson, 103 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private H. Nelson, 143 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private T.G. White, 103 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private B. Francis, 242 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Sergeant J.A. Hibberson, 68 Battery, 14 Brigade.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
[col. 2]
Sergeant G.E.Deakin, 62 CFA (Canadian Field Artillery)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private C. Oliver, 1st Pioneers
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Gunner C.B. Henderson, 5 CFA (Canadian Field Artillery)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
L/C (Lance Corporal) D. Willis, 48 Battalion
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private F. B. Farquharson, AMC (Army Medical Corps)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private W. White, 48 Battalion
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Sergeant H. German [section not noted]
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private J. Herdman, 13 FA (Field Artillery)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private J.E. White, 103 Battalion.
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private A.J. Francis, 242 Battalion
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private G. Williams, AMC (Army Medical Corps)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
Private E.C. Curry, AMC (Army Medical Corps)
- full name & life dates
- Oak Bay address
- service record
- CVWM
- CWGC
- Find a Grave
= end of list =
