William Howe BISSLEY

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Education:

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Memorials:

No known grave
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing (Pier 11, Face D) (one of 72193 names) CWGC
London School of Economics (one of 70 names)
Maidenhead Town Hall (one of 538 names)
Maidenhead Modern School – the school has now become Desborough College. At the time I contacted them, there were only 4 names on their war memorial, and they did not include William Bissley. My enquiry led to a researcher discovering that a total of 20 old boys of Maidenhead Modern School and Maidenhead County Boys School were not commemorated and a new memorial was commissioned in 2012. (one of 24 names)
All Saints Church Maidenhead (one of 127 names)
ornately carved and gilded font cover in All Saints Church Maidenhead, commissioned as a personal memorial to him by his family
on his parents’ grave in the churchyard of All Saints Church Maidenhead
St Mark’s College, Chelsea – now part of Marjon College, Plymouth where the memorial has now been installed (one of 97 names)
Roll of Honour book on display in St Andrew & St Mary’s Church, Maidenhead (one of unknown number of names)
London County Council, County Hall, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth (one of 1065 names)
Roll of Honour book on display in City Hall, London (one of unknown number of names)
in group photograph (unnamed) in the club house of Boyne Hill Cricket Club, Maidenhead
on his wife’s grave in the churchyard of St Mary’s, East Lydford, Somerset

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 40-46

Appears in Charles Bartlett's letters: see I Shall Not Be Away Long book