Where is this memorial originally from?

[liverpool annie]

I'd say Reading too ! the ones I looked up were Reading .... and I was going to say that maybe they didn't all die .... they may have served .... ( I found that on my Honour Roll !! )

And they're not all Army ..... Satchell is buried at Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery !

[meles]

since the majority of the fallen come from the Reading/Berks area, and the majority appear to have served in the Royal Berks Regt, I will contact either the Reading museum or the Royal Berks Regimental museum to see if they would like it.

Oh dear - sorry Thudders. "If all else fails, read the instructions..!" 

But at least - eventually - I think I might have narrowed it down a bit. 

meles

[liverpool annie]

Theres got to be more churches than this .... but heres some old ones !! 

Reading
  
Broad Street Meeting Independent         
Kings Road Meeting Baptist   
Primitive Methodist         
Saint Giles   
Saint James RC
Saint Mary   
Church Street Wesleyan   

[Thudnut]

Sorry, I should have put up those that I have found.  All information has been identified from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.  I haven't had time to go through the 1901 census yet.

Harry E Aust ( Lt.  1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regt )

Charles Bostwick ( LCpl.  2nd Bn Essex Regt )

Francis S Brain ( Capt. 1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regt )

Stanley Challen ( LSgt. 'A' Coy. 6th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regt )

Wilfred Colebrook ( Pte.  Berkshire Yeomanry )

W Marsden Cooper ( 2nd Lt.  2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment )

Wilfred W Drake ( Lt. 2nd Bn.  Devonshire Regiment )

J Bernard Eighteen ( Dvr. 'D' Bty. 75th Bde. Royal Field Artillery  )

H Thomas Eighteen ( Pte. 1st/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment )

Arthur E Freeman ( Pte. 2nd/14th Bn. London Regiment - London Scottish )

Horace Harding - Can't positively identify (yet).

Walford V Knowles ( 2nd Lt. 3rd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment )

Stanley H May ( Spr. 237th Field Coy. Royal Engineers )

Charles William Moss ( 2nd Lt. Royal Berkshire Regiment )

Horace L Pinker ( Pte. 4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment )

John Satchell ( Cpl.  Submarine mining block 'C'. Royal Marine Light Infantry )

Phillip G Steer ( Cpl. 'A' Coy. 17th Bn. Royal Fusiliers )

Mark Watts ( Cpl. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment )

Frank G Weight ( LCpl. 32nd Div. Signal Coy. Royal Engineers )

Percy White - Can't positively identify (yet).

Thanks, all.
Thudders

[Little Nell]

It might also be worth asking the Record office which church it might have come from.

Private Pinker's parents were John and Jane, living in Reading.

J Bernard Eighteen's parents are listed as Mr & Mrs F S Eighteen of Reading Berkshire.  He was Royal Field Artillery

And Harry E Aust's parents were Thomas and Mary Ann Aust of "Carn Brea," Northcourt Avenue, Reading.

Can we find them in 1901?

Nell

[scrimnet]

I think if that they can be found on the 1901 census, we will probably find them all within a few streets....

Then we can play find the church!

A trip to Reading Museum looks on the cards for one of us (step forward Thudders!)

Seriously,  I live not a million miles from Reading and might be able to assist on a day off....

[Thudnut]

Just another thought, as Meles says, 'Eighteen' is quite an unusual name.  I wonder if there's any Eighteens still living in the Reading area?  Anyone got access to the Voters' Register for Reading.

Scrimnet, if you get a day off and can go to Reading, give me as much notice as possible and I'll meet you there!

Thanks everyone.  I've got a good feeling about this.

Thudders

[liverpool annie]

Satchell lived in the parish of St Lawrence in 1901 !!

Check this out ..... maybe this is why !!

http://www.stlreading.org |Link updated sadly the original page no longer exists 2015

[Little Nell]

Northcourt Avenue is Redlands area.  Some university professors lived there in 1914.

Which church might have been demolished near there?

Nell