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During the First World War, over 760 people who either lived or worked within the boundaries of the modern Borough of Woking lost their lives due to enemy action. This exhibition looks at the various memorials found throughout the district. From small individual plaques to large memorials, many of the fallen are commemorated on a number of sites.
2009 has seen the Great War pass from living memory into history with the deaths of the last three veterans who served during the conflict. To commemorate their passing, Surrey History Centre has embarked on a project that aims to identify and produce an illustrated biographical database of the 764 individuals so far recorded from the Borough of Woking who gave their lives for King and country during the First World War.
World War One Roll of Honour: click here to see a searchable pdf 
listing of all the men named on the memorials included in this exhibition. This provides information on rank, regiment, age, date of death and other family details. If you want to find out who is recorded on which memorial click here to download a searchable pdf .
Click here to see an interactive map showing the location of memorials in Woking Borough.
If you have any information, including documents or photographs, relating to someone mentioned on the memorials, or the memorials themselves, Surrey History Centre would very much like to hear from you. A Flickr site has been set up where anyone can post their own pictures of memorials and the people commemorated on them.
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Click here to see images of individual memorials.
Research of this kind is very time consuming and the staff of the Surrey History Centre are extremely grateful to all the people who have freely shared information and provided access to buidlings and memorials. For further information visit the Window on Woking War Memorials web pages.
Surrey History Centre holds extensive records from the Surrey Regiments. Click on the following links for further information:
Click here to read more about the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
Click here to read about the East Surrey Regiment’s “football” charge on July 1st 1916, one of the most famous incidents to occur during the carnage of the first day of the battle of the Somme.
Click here to see the research guide (pdf) "Tracing military records at Surrey History Centre".
Click here to read a summary of the arrangement of the records of the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment held at the Surrey History Centre.
Can you help?
There are a number of projects in progress around Surrey that are seeking information about the lives of those listed on War Memorials around the County, so that they can be remembered and honoured not just as names but as men and women with families and stories to be told.
These are some of the websites for the projects in Surrey:
- Banstead History Research Group
- Epsom and Ewell History Explorer (click here to go directly to their war memorials page)
- Great War Dead of Addlestone
- Leatherhead and District Local War Memorials Research Project - including projects for Ashtead, Box Hill, Effingham, Fetcham, Great Bookham, Headley, Little Bookham, Mitcham and Oxshott)
If you would like to help with any of these projects by providing information about any of your Surrey ancestors who died in either of the two World Wars, please use the contact details given in the websites listed above.
Another source of information is the Roll of Honour, Surrey website.
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