Austin Whitaker, teacher and archivist. The Rector's sermon at his memorial service on 5th January 1998
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The story of local man Lt Col Edward Carse OBE, First Buckinghamshire Battalion, who is remembered on the War Memorial in Shawford Down
What's the connection between this postcard, the first World War, a grave in Compton churchyard, and a romance with the master of a 19th century convict ship? Read on...
Monty Dawson, much decorated airman, fund-raiser for (amongst others) the PCC, Parish Magazine editor, and secretary of the Horticultural Society
Sarah Williams, a woman to be praised above all others. Written for the Compton School drama group and performed in church on Mothering Sunday 2016.
Jim Newton: the soldier from Georgia who married a Hampshire girl he had met in the war and settled with his family in Shawford
A chance meeting leads to the discovery of some delightful old watercolours of Compton by Hilda Willis