The details used to create this database are from an original work entitled "Abingdon (Borough) Roll of Service August 1914 - June 1919". The details recorded here are based on this information but have been expanded with further details and some corrections. The photographs Copyright © Roll of Honour 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

The entries have been added to using the 'Soldiers Died in the Great War' CD and information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Additional information has then been drawn from other reference documents, for example, National Roll of the Great War and de Ruvigny's.

Links are provided to the war memorials that exist on-line for these men wherever pertinent and any photographs also linked. Hopefully this will provide a comprehensive set of information.

Extract from the preface of the book:

HISTORY AND OBJECT

The movement for the compilation of the Abingdon (Borough) Roll of Service was commenced in 1916. It wass felt that a list of all men serving from the town during the War should be available and afterwards inscribed on Vellum for preservation in the Borough buildings as a permanent Record.

The suggestion was made to the local Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association Committee who adopted it, the Chairman (Mr. T. Skurray) agreeing to bring the matter before the Town Council with an offer from the Committee to undertake the compilation of the Roll on the Council's behalf. The offer being accepted, the work was commenced and has been carried on almost continuously from then until its completion in this issue. A thorough canvass of the entire Town was twice made, very house being visited each time in order to collect the information required. Great care has been taken by those responsible to obtain and record the details correctly and in addition a Proof Copy of the whole Roll, when completed, was published in The North Berkshire Herald to provide the fullest opportunity for the rectification of errors.

The Roll gives the following particulars, in the order stated, qualification for inclusion being based on either birth within the Borough or residence in it of not less than six months prior to enlistment:- Name, Honours (if any), Address (at enlistment of from where information was obtained), Rank (Officers and N.C.O's.), Regiment or Ship, Period of Service, Area of Service Abroad (if any). The names of the men who died on service are printed in heavier type, date, place, etc. of death being given after the other particulars, those wounded are indicated by an atserisk. Regular pre-war service is given as from August 1914, and the commencing date only of the period of service of those who were not demobilised by the end of June 1919.