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Barkham Remembers Barkham Parish Council is recognising the sacrifices of local men and centenary of the outbreak of WWI by joining with Wokingham Town Council in their Wokingham Remembers activities including the borough-wide Heritage Memorial Trail which includes research on … Continue reading →

In 1989, I began my own journey of tracing the Churcher family tree. I was eventually to be introduced to Minnie Maryan who was approaching her 100th birthday. Minnie’s life had been overwhelmed by two world wars. She lost her … Continue reading →

In this second interview, Sarah Huxford and Mike Churcher talks to BBC’s Mike Read about the emergence of the symbols of Remembrance and visiting the war graves on the Western Front. Also discussed is the recent publication of Richard Van … Continue reading →

This year’s Remembrance Day will have a special significance as it is the centenary year of the start of the Great War. Wokingham Remembers will be discussing the changing attitudes to remembrance on BBC Radio Berkshire, on the 3rd November … Continue reading →

‘Bracknell’s Great War’ By Andrew Radgick Andrew Radgick, History Officer of The Bracknell Forest Society, has spent four years researching the local men listed on the War Memorials across Bracknell Forest Borough. He is giving a series of talks to … Continue reading →

Andrew Radgick is Chairman of Bracknell Forest Society and a great friend to the Wokingham Remembers project. I thought it would be interesting to hear at first hand the Centenary Commemoration from a German perspective. Andrew provides a very amusing … Continue reading →

On the 13th September 2014, Wokingham Remembers was invited to discuss its findings since its launch in 2011. The stories of three men were told with the perspective of ‘what happened next’; i.e. how their descendants or existing Battalions were … Continue reading →

Frederick Allfrey at the age of 22 was a Lieutenent in the 9th Lancers and killed in the minutes following Europe’s final ‘lance of lance charge’ on the 7th September 1914. The charge has become a famous moment in the … Continue reading →

What was the impact of World War One on Wokingham in 1914? Here is a short film which shows the losses from August to December 1914. There were far more from around the Borough, but these are taken from Wokingham’s … Continue reading →