Line Dancing Every Monday 2.0pm – 3.0pm
Line Dancing in the village hall every Monday 2.0pm – 3.0pm. Everyone is welcome including beginners. So come along and join us.
Line Dancing in the village hall every Monday 2.0pm – 3.0pm. Everyone is welcome including beginners. So come along and join us.
“At the Going Down of the Sun…….We Will Remember Them” One Hundred Years since the Armistice was implemented at the 11th hour on the 11th day in November 1918. One hundred years since Aynho felt the community loss of the fourteen Aynho men who were killed action and are named on the World War One…
Wallace James WILLIAMS Service no. 52864 Private, 1st Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers (“The Fighting Fifth”) Wallace was killed in action on 6th June 1918 during the Kaiser’s last Battle. He was 19. Family Background Wallace James Williams was the son of James Williams of Aynho and Elizabeth born in Kings Sutton. James was firstly a…
Reginald Victor WRIGHTON Service no. 17537 Private, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards Reginald was killed in action during the fighting at Poelcappelle on 9 October 1917. He was 29 years old. Family Background Reginald was the son of George and Hannah Wrighton of Aynho. George, an estate worker for the Cartwrights, died aged 72 in 1909…
Nigel Walter Henry CARTWRIGHT Second Lieutenant, 20th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry Nigel was killed in action on 21 September 1917 during the attack south of the Menin Road Ridge, east of Bodmin Copse during the Third battle of Ypres which we now call Passchendaele. Family Background Nigel was born on 25 August 1897 in what…
Edward John SECCULL Service no. 27240 Sergeant, 115th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Edward was killed in action on 24 August 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele. Family Background Edward was the son of Eli and Rhoda Ann Seccull of Aynho; he had three siblings. They lived in part of what is now 15 The…
Clement WRIGHTON Service no. 15241 Private, 7th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment Clement was killed in action in the Battle for Delville Wood during the Somme Campaign on 19 August 1916. He was just 22 when he died. Family Background Clement was the youngest son, one of 10 children, born to Frederick and Mary Ann Wrighton…
Alfred WRIGHTON Service no. 17146 Private, 7th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment Alfred was killed in action in the Battle for Delville Wood during the Somme Campaign on 17 August 1916; he was 35 years old. Family Background Alfred was one of ten children born to Frederick and Mary Ann Wrighton of Aynho between 1870 and…
Joseph Edward WILLIAMS Service no. 740269 Private, 26th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment). 5th Brigade, 2nd Division. Joseph was killed in action on 15 August 1917 near Lens, fighting in the Canadian Army against the Germans. He was 20 years old. Family Background Joseph was the son of Frederick Williams of Aynho and the…
Edward Charles SAVINGS Service no. 31017 Private, 6th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment Edward was killed in action on 3 May 1917 during the 3rd Battle for the Scarpe. He was 38. Family Background Edward was the son of Richard and Caroline Webb Savings, of Brackley Road, Aynho in 1879. He had a younger sister (Caroline)…