Mickleham St Michael War Memorials - War Grave & Remembrances

MICKLEHAM (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD
There is one war grave listed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , that of Peter Odhams, in the NE corner of the churchyard.

Name: Lt ODHAMS, PETER KENNETH LYNCH
Royal Navy
Age: 25
Date of Death: 15/12/1940

Son of Ernest Lynch Odhams and Frances Odhams; husband of Jeronime Frances Odhams, of Orford, Suffolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: N.E. Corner MICKLEHAM (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD

Killed on active service
15 Dec 1940
Aged 25 years

His story is on this website.


There are also headstones commemorating those who died or who gave service.
These have been found so far:

World War I

PERCY BODMAN

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND
PERCY BODMAN
WOUNDED 9TH JULY 1917
DIED 1ST NOV 1918
AGED 32 YEARS

AT REST

His story is on this website.


image: Lesley Wood (his grandaughter)

 

WALTER DOUGLAS CULLEN

IN PROUD AND
LOVING MEMORY OF
WALTER DOUGLAS
HUSBAND OF
GWENDOLEN CULLEN
AND SON OF
WILLIAM & ALICE CULLEN
OF MICKLEHAM DOWNS
BORN 7 NOVEMBER 1892
DIED 6 SEPTEMBER 1920

Note the RFC badge.

Who can provide his story - Did he fly?
Was he ground crew? Why RFC and not RAF?

Local sources believe that Cullen grave is the family of the grocers - they used to be at the top of the High Street in Leatherhead and they were pretty much countrywide.


World War II

Mary Thorpe Selby, wife of Alexander Prideaux Selby - and in proud memory of their two sons killed in the service of their country:

NEIL BEAUCHAMP SELBY Yugoslavia 1943
OLIVER SELBY Arnhem 1944

SELBY, NEIL BEAUCHAMP
Major
Royal Armoured Corps, 1st Royal Dragoons:
attd. Special Operations Executive
Age: 28
Date of Death: 01/10/1943
Service No: 117474
Son of Alexander Prideaux Selby and Mary Thorpe Selby.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 1
ATHENS MEMORIAL

SELBY, OLIVER
Private
10th Bn, Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 25/09/1944
Service No: 5828342
Son of Alexander Prideaux Selby and Mary Thorpe Selby, of Walberton, Sussex.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 29. B. 5.
ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMY


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page created 4 Feb 2009: updated 12 Nov 11