This website concerns

Which includes:

The Men, Women and Children of Colchester who gave their lives during the First and the Second World Wars.	Victoria Cross holders from Colchester (to follow)
The Colchester Men who fought at The Battle of Trafalgar	Colchester men who fought and died in other conflicts (to follow)

The Men, Women and Children of Colchester

who gave their lives during the

First and the Second World Wars.

Their names are taken from the town's War Memorials located at the Town Hall and outside the Castle Gates.

There are also individual War Memorials at various locations around the town that record the names of specific casualties.

If you know the family of any of those persons mentioned, would you please let us know, so that we may record their life in greater detail.

Some of the information given on these pages has been taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, a link to which is provided below.

The aim of this site is to help ensure that those who died will never be forgotten.

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The

CWGC

DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER

provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars.

(A record of some 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.)

 The cemeteries and memorials where these names are commemorated, in perpetuity, are located in around 150 countries. This database makes it possible to identify the exact location, by cemetery plot or memorial panel, where any given name is commemorated.

These places of commemoration are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

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Search here by surname for the Colchester Hero who died during the

First World War

1914 to 1918

A - D ~ E - G ~ H - L ~ M - R ~ S - Z

Search here by surname for the Colchester Hero who died during the

Second World War

1939 - 1945

A - Z

other links

	COLCHESTER's WAR MEMORIAL
The Christchurch Memorial	The Lexden Memorial  by Mr Peter Potter	Mile End
The Shrub End Memorial	The STANWAY War Memorial in the form of the Lychgate at the entrance to St Albright's Church, has not been transcribed by us or specifically included within this site. However, it is probable that some Colchester Heroes are remembered there.	ST BOTOLPHS
Abberton and Langenhoe	ST GILES
	9OTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

please also visit

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION	War Memorial Trust	The South-East Essex War Memorials & Monumental Inscriptions Project,

 or go to the

home page 

last updated

13th June 2008