WOODSTOCK REMEMBERS
SERVICE RECORD
Names
Surname
REMNANT
REMNANT
Forname(s)
Richard Allen
Richard Allen
Birthplace
Richmond, Surrey. Registered Autumn 1896
Family
Parents
Richard and Catherine (nee Sangster) of the Post Office, 63A High Street, Post Office, Plumstead, Kent (1911 Census)
The Post Office, Ashford, Middx. (CWGC 1915)
Richard and Catherine (nee Sangster) of the Post Office, 63A High Street, Post Office, Plumstead, Kent (1911 Census)
The Post Office, Ashford, Middx. (CWGC 1915)
Siblings
One of four children. Two died.
Richard had a younger brother William Harold.
One of four children. Two died.
Richard had a younger brother William Harold.
Address(es)
Richard was a resident of Woodstock
Occupation
Post Office Clerk Woodstock (CWGC)
Service
Rank: Private
Number: 18422
Regiment: 2nd Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Death
Ricard attested in Oxford and went to France on 30th September 1916.
He was killed in action in the trenches at Cuinchy, near Bethune on the 13th December, 1915, aged 19 Parish Magazine February 1916.
Burial
Commonwealth War Grave/Memorial
Woburn Abbey Cemetery, Cuinchy Ref: I.C.17
Total identified casualties 317
Inscription reads SAFE IN THE NAME OF JESUS
Related Imagery
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Researched by: Alice Hipkiss
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/Woodstock.html
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
