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Alderbury & Whaddon

Local History Research Group

A history of the Alderbury dead who are

recorded on the village war memorials

Did you know that an Alderbury man went down with Lord Kitchener on HMS Hampshire in 1916; that one was lost at sea escaping from a torpedoed Japanese prison ship, that another worked on the notorious Burma-Siam railway of death?

See the page on war heroes for a glimpse of the courage shown by those who died. This page is updated to feature new people, so return to it at a later date to see more. Old articles are stored in the archive section. A list of those commemorated is given below.

There are three war memorials in Alderbury, one on The Green and two in St Mary's parish church. Between them, they commemorate the fallen of Alderbury, Whaddon and Clarendon in WWI and WWII. Alderbury War Memorials: In Freedom’s Cause, tells the stories of those commemorated on the village war memorials in two world wars, and what they or their regiments were doing when they died. Photographs of the soldiers, maps and drawings illustrate their stories. There are also some others recorded who do not appear on the war memorials. The book describes some of the battles they and their regiments were engaged in and sets these in the overall context of the campaigns they fought;