Charles Paton Lavelle
From the Nottinghamshire Roll of honour https://rollofhonour.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Person/Details?id=5182
“Charles Patton Lavelle was born in 1893 at Lythe, Yorkshire and was the son of Patrick Rowan Lavelle a game keeper and Eliza Jane Lavelle née Patton, of 27,Bramcote Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. His father Patrick was born in 1867 in Gallway, Ireland, his mother Eliza Jane Patton was born in 1864 in Monaghan, Ireland, they were married in 1890 in Rathdrum, Ireland. They went on to have the following children, Elizabeth b1891 Lythe, Charles Patton b1893 Lythe, Kathleen b1895 Lythe, Nora Ellen b1897 Lythe and Greata Ann b1899 Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census the family are living at Moor Lane, Bramcote and are shown as Patrick Lavelle 44 yrs a game keeper, he is living with his wife Eliza Jane 47 yrs and their children, Charles Patton 18 yrs a game keeper and Greata Annie 12 yrs of age.
Military history
Private Charles Patton Lavelle, enlisted in Nottingham, he initially served with service number 24703 in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment, he later transferred into the 103rd Company Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on 1st July 1916 the first day of the Battle of the Somme . He is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle.”
Sue Wright writes: It is possible to demonstrate that this is almost certainly the Charles Lavelle on the Marsh Baldon War Memorial. In 1912 Charles Lavelle, gamekeeper of Marsh Baldon was fined for riding his was bicycle without lights.
“BICYCLE WITHOUT A LIGHT.-Charles Lavelle, a gamekeeper, of Marsh Baldon, was summoned for riding a bicycle without a light at Toot Baldon, at 6.30 p.m. on November 23rd.—Defendant did not appear.—P.C. Croton proved the case, and a fine of l6., with 26. 6d. costs, was imposed.” Oxford Review 1912
For more information about Charles Lavelle please see here.
R W Hawken
“Lance-Corpl. R. W. Hawken, Yeomanry, aged 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hawken, of Little Baldon, was wounded recently by a trench mortar bomb,sustaining wounds in both legs, while the man next him was killed outright.
Lance Corpl. Hawken has since had the misfortune to have his left foot amputated. Educated at Culham College, he became a farmer, and joined up at the commencement of the war. The day previous to receiving his wounds, his superior officer having fallen, he took command of a raiding party on the German trenches, which gained their objective and succeeded in bringing back all the wounded, for which he was awarded the Military Medal.” Oxford Journal 01/08/1917
Lance Corporal R.W. Hawken
Further additional information about many of the men, all those who served within the villages of Marsh, Toot and Little Baldon and Nuneham Courtenay can also be found on the Imperial War Museum “Lives of the First World War.”
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/5979
Many thanks to Sue Wright for this additional information about Baldons men who served in World War One.
Harry Stone
1892 - Born in Toot Baldon, fifth of the eight children of David Stone (labourer) and Hannah (nee Carter)[i]
29/5/1892 - Baptized in Toot Baldon[ii]
1901 census – Aged 8, living at Pebble Hill, Toot Baldon with parents David (aged 42, cattleman on farm) and Hannah (aged 41) and five siblings: William (aged 16, cattleman on farm), Arthur (aged 14, carter), Alice (aged 12) David (aged 4) and Grace F (aged 2)[iii]
1911 census – Aged 18 and working as a horseman on farm, living at Pebble Hill, Toot Baldon with parents David (aged 52, cowman on farm) and Hannah (aged 51) and younger sister Grace Florence (aged 12, at school)[iv]
Between 8/8/1914 & 26/9/1914 – Enlisted into the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry as 14908 Private Harry Stone.
Between 26/9/1914 & 24/4/1917 – Transferred to the 7th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) as 14496 Private Harry Stone.
November 1915 - 7th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) leave France for Salonika.
24/4/1917 – Missing in action and death presumed on the Salonika Front[v]
Commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece
Thanks to Rae Taylor for this information about Harry Stone
[i] Church of England marriages, 4 February 1882, Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, p30.
1891 census, RD: Abingdon, Sub RD: Nuneham Courtenay, ED: 3, Piece: 980, Folio: 23.
1901 census, RD: Abingdon, Sub RD: Nuneham Courtenay, ED: 3, Piece: 1133, Folio: 25, p7, HSN: 40.
1911 census, RD: 117, Sub RD: Sutton Courtenay, ED: 08, Piece: 6476.
[ii] Baptism record, Toot Baldon, Oxford, 1892&3, p85.
[iii] Op cit 1901 census.
[iv] Op cit 1911 census.
[v] Register of soldiers effects, 14496 Private Harry Stone, Record no: 726143.
UK soldiers who died, 14496 Private Harry Stone.
Oxford Times, 3 August 1918.