Our Tribute To Wiltshires’ Heroic & Famous Sons and Daughters 

Here we remember those men and women with Wiltshire connections who paid the ultimate sacrifice whilst in the service of their country during both war and peace. This includes civilians who died due to war time action as well as those who died as prisoners of war, and through accident or disease. We also recognise the sacrifices made by the Emergency Services of Wiltshire.

We also remember the events when visitors and Wiltshire folk lost their lives in major disasters within the county, together with traumatic events outside of the county, where those with Wiltshire connections lost their lives.

We also celebrate the lives of individuals connected to the County, who had global, national or county-wide fame for achievement in the arts, sporting, literary, sciences, political. religious and medical fields.  

This list below displays these sacrifices and notable events which occurred on this day in history over a period of 7 days, this is the current date and three days either side.

DateTypeEvent
01-01-1846First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-1846Wiltshire Regiment (62nd Foot) - 1845 - Private EDWARD BASTON
01-01-1857Wiltshire Notable1857 - Kington St. Michael - JOHN BRITTON, Antiquary, died in London.
01-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1915 - Chaplain 4th Class GEORGE LEYCESTER INGLES 
01-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bulford & Netheravon - 1915 - Private JAMES JOSEPH BARRETT 
01-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Malmesbury - 1915 - Midshipman JOHN WALTER MORRICE
01-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1915 - Lance Corporal WILLIAM DANIEL NIGEL DYER 
01-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Durrington - 1916 - Private REGINALD CHARLES FREEMAN 
01-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Codford (St. Mary) - 1917 - Private EDWIN BEATTIE
01-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Devizes, Salisbury & Tollard Royal - 1917 - Rifleman ALBERT KEMPSHALL 
01-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Sutton Veny - 1917 - Private WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMS 
01-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Crudwell (Eastcourt) - 1918 - Able Seaman WALTER CHARLES SAUNDERS 
01-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Trowbridge - 1918 - Private STANLEY OLIVER GOMM 
01-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Bradford-on-Avon - 1919 - Gunner JAMES REES COLE 
01-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Everleigh - 1919 - Private OLIVER JAMES AYRES
01-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1919 - Private CHARLES STANLEY LONEY 
01-01-1937Non-Conflict Military DeathNetheravon & Tidworth - 1937 - Leading Aircraftman FRANK WILLIAM BARRET
01-01-1939Undetermined Military Related DeathTidworth - 1939 - CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON 
01-01-1940Second World War - 1939-1947Corsham - 1940 - Pilot Officer ERIC ARTHUR CHARLES HILL 
01-01-1940Second World War - 1939-1947Swindon - 1940 - Able Seaman WILLIAM CHARLES DAVIS 
01-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Chippenham & Kington Langley - 1943 - Petty Officer/Writer ALBERT JOHN SMITH
01-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Melksham & Steeple Ashton - 1943 - Marine DAVID RUPERT NELSON LEDBURY  
01-01-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1944 - Private GEORGE TEGID LLOYD
01-01-1949Retired Service Personnel DeathDinton & Sutton Mandeville - 1949 - Retired Commander REGINALD GEORGE DENYS WYNDHAM
01-01-1973Non-Conflict Military DeathTidworth - 1973 - Lance Corporal DAVID JOUGHIN 
01-01-2011Retired Service Personnel DeathChilmark & Salisbury - 2011 Retired Lieutenant General Sir ROBIN MACDONALD CARNEGIE, KCB, OBE, DL
02-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1915 - Private JOHN GEORGE MacDONALD 
02-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Devizes & Swindon - 1915 - Lance Corporal WILLIAM HENRY BINT
02-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Marlborough & Trowbridge - 1915 - Private RICHARD THOMAS KNIGHT 
02-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Swindon - 1915 - Sergeant FRANK TITCHENER 
02-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Trowbridge - 1916 - Lance Sergeant ERNEST ARTHUR GOMM 
02-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Trowbridge - 1916 - Rifleman ALEXANDER JAMES HAYTER  
02-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Trowbridge & West Lavington (Littleton Panell) - 1916 - Lance Sergeant WALTER STEPHEN CHAPMAN  
02-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1916 - Private JOHN ROBINS 
02-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Durrington - 1917 -  Gunner EDWARD THOMAS GAY 
02-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Durrington - 1917 - Private WILLIAM ALEXANDER LILLEY  
02-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Swindon - 1917 - Private ALBERT HOLMES 
02-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1917 - Private WILLIAM ANGUS BULL
02-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Corsham - 1918 - Private WILLIAM EVANS
02-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1918 - Private JOHN GILBERT JARVIS
02-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1919 - Air Mechanic 1st Class FREDERICK GEORGE STEVENS
02-01-1941Second World War - 1939-1947Chippenham & Hardenhuish - 1941 - Driver WILFRED REGINALD GEORGE HIBBERD - Died between 2nd and 3rd of January
02-01-1941Second World War - 1939-1947Purton & Swindon - 1941 - Civilian FREDERICK GEORGE READ 
02-01-1941Second World War - 1939-1947Swindon - 1941 - Civilian WILLIAM CHARLES LEWIS  
02-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Wiltshire Regiment - 1943 - Private STANLEY ALBERT LUMER 
02-01-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Melksham - 1944 - Pilot Officer LESLIE FRANK GILL  
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Corporal THOMAS SAMUEL PICKERSGILL
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Driver JOHN SHARPLES
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Private FRANCIS WILLIAM EDMUND WHIELDON
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Private HARRY STEVENSON
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Private JOSEPH JOHN FORTNUM
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Private KENNETH WILSON
02-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough & Savernake (Cadley) - 1946 - Private WALTER ARTHUR MEAKER
02-01-1977Undetermined Military Related DeathTidworth - 1977 - Sergeant MICHAEL PATRICK UNSWORTH
03-01-1846First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-184662nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot - 1846 - Corporal THOMAS RUNYARD 
03-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1915 - Farrier Sergeant JOHN MACKNEY 
03-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Salisbury - 1916 - Driver WILLIAM WHITE
03-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Barford St. Martin & Great Wishford - 1917 - Private EDWARD JOHN MIDDLEWICK
03-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Chippenham & Trowbridge - 1917 - Gunner GEORGE VICTOR JIM ELMES
03-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Seend & Swindon - 1917 - Sapper WILLIAM BRAMBLE
03-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1917 - Sergeant ARTHUR CHARLES MEREDITH
03-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Chiseldon, Ogbourne St. George & Swindon - 1918 - Private PERCY HUBERT DAVIS
03-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Kington St. Michael - 1919 - Private CHARLES ERNEST HAWKINS 
03-01-1940Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1940 - Gunner THOMAS SIDNEY BRAITHWAITE
03-01-1940Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1940 - Trooper ERNEST EDWARD JOHN
03-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Tisbury - 1943 - Private FREDERICK HERBERT CHALK
03-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Trowbridge - 1943 - Trooper WARWICK DAVID GOWER
03-01-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Westbury - 1944 - Flight Sergeant KENNETH SIDNEY JAMES CHAPMAN 
03-01-1946Second World War - 1939-1947Marlborough, Savernake (Cadley) & Trowbridge - 1946 - Private LESLIE HERBERT CHICK
03-01-1949Undetermined Military Related DeathGreat Bedwyn & Savernake - 1949 - Flight Sergeant WALTER JAMES HART 
03-01-1951Korean War 1950-1953Semington - 1951 - Corporal WILLIAM ADAIR 
03-01-1951Undetermined Military Related DeathSutton Veny - 1951 - Lieutenant CHARLES GODFREY ALEXANDER  
03-01-1959Undetermined Military Related DeathYatesbury - 1959 - Aircraftman 2nd Class IAN REID SMITH 
04-01-1813Wiltshire Notable1813 - Trowbridge - Isaac Pitman, teacher and developer of shorthand, was born.  He was knighted in 1894 by Queen Victoria.
04-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Amesbury & Devizes - 1915 - Private WALTER PIKE
04-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1915 - Pioneer DESMOND FITZMAURICE
04-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1915 - Private WILLIAM CHARLES PATRICK
04-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1916 - Private WILLIAM TOLMAN 
04-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Durrington - 1917 - Private JOSEPH PATRICK LYNCH  
04-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Salisbury - 1917 - Corporal ARTHUR CUDMORE
04-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1917 - Private EDWARD URQUHART
04-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Bemerton, Homington & Salisbury - 1918 - Gunner ALFRED HARRY CASE  
04-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Bishopstone (Wilton) & Salisbury - 1919 - Private ARTHUR HENRY ELKINS 
04-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Melksham & Trowbridge - 1919 - Private RALPH RICHARD BRAY  
04-01-1920First World War - 1914-1921Downton (Redlynch) - 1920 - Driver HORACE BERTRAM HAND  
04-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Trowbridge - 1943 - Trooper FREDERICK GEORGE SLADE 
04-01-1945Second World War - 1939-1947Calne, Chippenham & Derry Hill (Pewsham) - 1945 - Sergeant FRANK AUGUSTUS BRIGHT
04-01-1945Second World War - 1939-1947Warminster - 1945 - Civilian RHODA ANN FEATHER 
04-01-1945Second World War - 1939-1947Warminster - 1945 - Gunner HAROLD JOHN HOLTON 
04-01-1945Second World War - 1939-1947West Lavington - 1945 - Pilot Officer GEORGE EDWARD WIDDICOMBE 
04-01-1947Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1947 - Sierzant TEODOR BANACH
04-01-1949Non-Conflict Military DeathPurton & Stratton St. Margaret - 1949 - Warrant Officer CYRIL ERNEST CHAPPLE
04-01-1951Korean War 1950-1953Stratton St. Margaret - 1951 - Rifleman WILFRED JOHN WOODHOUSE
04-01-1955Wiltshire Notable1955 - Stratton St. Margaret & Swindon - WILLIAM HOOPER, Landscape & Portrait Photographer died at St. Margaret’s Hospital, Stratton St. Margaret.  He was resident of Swindon at the time of his death.  He was one of the first to photograph the scene of the Swindon Tram Disaster in 1906. 
04-01-1972Undetermined Military Related DeathTidworth - 1972 - Major ALFRED JOHN MACNEECE DANIEL 
04-01-1985Undetermined Military Related DeathGrittleton - 1985 - Flight Lieutenant EDRIC LEE ROY RADFORD 
04-01-1992Retired Service Personnel DeathSalisbury - 1992 - Retired Lieutenant Colonel ROBERT JOHN COTTERELL
04-01-2000Retired Service Personnel DeathTidworth - 2000 - Retired Major GEOFFREY WHITWORTH 
05-01-1868Retired Service Personnel DeathDevizes, Dilton Marsh, Rowde & Southbroom - 1868 - Retired Sergeant WILLIAM GRANT
05-01-1901Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902Corsham - 1901 - Captain THOMAS CLEMENT EDRIDGE YOCKNEY
05-01-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1915 - Private JOHN WYLIE 
05-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1916 - Sapper ROBERT BARTEL WANT 
05-01-1916First World War - 1914-1921Codford (St. Mary) - 1916 - Gunner KIE MARSH
05-01-1917First World War - 1914-1921Shalbourne - 1917 - Private GEORGE DAVID TUTTLE
05-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Devizes, Malmesbury & Westport St. Mary - 1918 - Private HERBERT JOHN RATCLIFFE
05-01-1918First World War - 1914-1921Swindon - 1918 - Lance Sergeant JOHN WILFRED GOODWIN 
05-01-1919First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1919 - Private HARRY CLARENCE BUTLER FORD 
05-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Downton (Morgans Vale & Woodfalls, Redlynch) - 1943 - Driver ARTHUR TOM BARROW
05-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Warminster - 1943 - Leading Stoker AUSTIN LOUIS JOHN LAWSON 
05-01-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Wroughton - 1943 - Flying Officer IVOR SCARLETT CAMPBELL GALBRAITH 
05-01-1945Second World War - 1939-1947Chippenham - 1945 - Flight Lieutenant WILFRED AUBREY MOORE
05-01-1954Undetermined Military Related DeathTidworth - 1954 - Major ROBERT GEORGE STRANGE
05-01-1959Wiltshire Notable1959 - Corsham, Marlborough & Seend - PAUL MARTIN, Antiques Dealer and TV Presenter was born in Teddington, Middlesex (top picture below). He has had parallel careers, as an antiques trader and dealer and also as a session musician drummer. He ran an antiques shop in Marlborough and has lived in Seend for over a decade. He now runs an antique emporium in Corsham.
05-01-2003Retired Service Personnel DeathTidworth - 2003 - Retired Wing Commander ERIC GARRAD-COLE 
05-01-2007Wiltshire Notable2007 - Mildenhall - JOHN BERNARD (JACK) AINSLIE OBE, former Chairman of Wiltshire County Council 1985-1989 died. He was educated at Harrow, commissioned as an officer in the Royal Berkshire Regiment during WWII and matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1947. An active politician he fought local, national and European elections. He resided at the family home in Mildenhall, where he died aged 85.
30-12-1914First World War - 1914-1921Melksham - 1914 - Private KENNETH LESLIE BILBROUGH WALLIS
30-12-1915First World War - 1914-1921Chippenham (Allington) - 1915 - Private HERBERT GEORGE KILLING
30-12-1915First World War - 1914-1921Rodbourne Cheney & Swindon - 1915 - Gunner OWEN CYRIL PEOPLE
30-12-1915First World War - 1914-1921Stratton St. Margaret - 1915 - Officer's Steward 3rd Class ARTHUR WRIGHT
30-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Durrington - 1916 - Private ALLAN BARRATT 
30-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1916 - Private JAMES CHARLES SMITH
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Ashton Keynes - 1917 - Corporal HAROLD JOHN NICHOLLS
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Horningsham - 1917 - Private CHARLES FROUDE 
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Kilmington, Maiden Bradley & Stourton - 1917 - Private WALTER WHITE
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Longbridge Deverill - 1917 - Captain WILLIAM WALTER MORRICE 
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Sutton Veny - 1917 - Private EZEKIEL JAMES SMILEY 
30-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1917 - Private JAMES MORGAN 
30-12-1918First World War - 1914-1921Tidworth - 1918 - Lance Corporal HECTOR ALBERT YOUNG
30-12-1919First World War - 1914-1921Market Lavington & Wanborough - 1919 - Corporal HERBERT POTTER
30-12-1933Wiltshire Notable1933 - Overton - MARY RAYNER - Author &  Childrens Book Illustrator was born in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma).  She was resident of the village for 20 years from 1968.  Best known for her picture books featuring Garth Pig and his siblings
30-12-1939Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1939 - Lance Sergeant GORDON KEYWORTH FROW
30-12-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Chippenham (Marshfield) - 1943 - Corporal CHARLES ANDREW HARDING
30-12-1943Second World War - 1939-1947Wiltshire Regiment - 1943 - Private DANIEL WALSH 
30-12-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Alderbury - 1944 - Private JACK ATTWOOD WOODROW
30-12-1947Second World War - 1939-1947Tidworth - 1947 - Sergeant BOHDAN CHODOROWSKI
30-12-1984Undetermined Military Related DeathMelksham - 1984 - Marine NICHOLAS (NICK) BAILEY
31-12-1732Wiltshire Notable1732 - Corsham - EDWARD HASTED - Antiquarian, Historian & Master of Hungerford Almshouse was born in Lombard Street, London, Middlesex.
31-12-1845First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-1846Wiltshire Regiment (62nd Foot) - 1845 - Private PATRICK BYRNE
31-12-1845First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-1846Wiltshire Regiment (62nd Foot) - 1845 - Private WILLIAM SMITH
31-12-1854Crimean War 1853–1856Semington, Steeple Ashton & Trowbridge - 1854 - Private AMOND CADBY
31-12-1872Wiltshire Notable1872 - Wilton - EDITH MAUD OLIVIER was born, she was one of ten children of the Canon of Wilton, Dacres Oliver.  She received the M.B.E. in 1920 for services with the Women's Land Army.  She was the first women to be elected to Wilton Town Council and was Mayor 1938 - 1941, she died at Wilton 10 May 1948.
31-12-1899Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902Wiltshire Regiment - 1899 - Private JOHN PEARCE
31-12-1901Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902Bradford-on-Avon & South Wraxall - 1901 - Private FREDERICK WALTER SIMS OVERTON
31-12-1914First World War - 1914-1921Bulford - 1914 - Private FRED BYANS PUDDINGTON 
31-12-1914First World War - 1914-1921Devizes & Grittleton - 1914 - Private HERBERT KINGTON
31-12-1914First World War - 1914-1921Stratton St. Margaret (Gorsehill) & Swindon - 1914 - Private CHRISTOPHER THORPE HILLIER  
31-12-1915First World War - 1914-1921Bradford-on-Avon - 1915 - Lieutenant HENRY CHARLES JONES
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Devizes - 1916 - Private ALFRED JAMES HAWKINS  
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Marlborough - 1916 - Private FREDERICK WILLIAM SHAW
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Salisbury & Tisbury - 1916 - Private WILLIAM GEORGE HULL
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Salisbury & West Grimstead - 1916 - Sergeant HARRY BUNDY
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Warminster & Westbury - 1916 - Private REGINALD PIPER  
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1916 - Private ALEXANDER PALMER 
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1916 - Private ERNEST EDWARD KIRBY 
31-12-1916First World War - 1914-1921Wiltshire Regiment - 1916 - Private RUPERT GEORGE HENRY SAUNDERS  
31-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Devizes, Swindon & Tidworth - 1917 - Private FREDERICK MARTIN
31-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Marlborough & Wilcot (Oare) - 1917 - Nurse HERMIONE ANGELA ROGERS
31-12-1917First World War - 1914-1921Stratton St. Margaret (Gorsehill) & Swindon - 1917 - Gunner HERBERT JEFFREY CHEQUER  
31-12-1918First World War - 1914-1921Stratton St. Margaret (Gorsehill) & Swindon - 1918 - Second Lieutenant EDWARD ALBERT WILLIAMS 
31-12-1918First World War - 1914-1921Swindon - 1918 - Sapper JOHN EDWARD PAINTIN  
31-12-1942Second World War - 1939-1947Easton Royal - 1942 - Ordinary Seaman JACK WALLACE
31-12-1942Second World War - 1939-1947Sherston Magna - 1942 - Coder PETER DICKENSON
31-12-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Chippenham - 1944 - Leading Aircraftman CHRISTOPHER HUBERT RUMBLE
31-12-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Fovant - 1944 - Major WILLIAM GERALD USHER 
31-12-1944Second World War - 1939-1947Swindon - 1944 - Private NORMAN SIDNEY LEA
31-12-1945Second World War - 1939-1947Wiltshire Regiment - 1945 - Private GEORGE WILLIAM HARRISON  
31-12-1952Undetermined Military Related DeathLyneham - 1952 - Senior Aircraftman CHARLES ALFRED JUDD