Millennium Project
Rob Forsyth
On 31 July 2017 BBC TV South and Radio Oxford broadcast programmes from Deddington about the Battle of Passchendaele which commenced on 31 July 1917 and whose horrors came to define WWI. The programmes featured the brothers Norman and Arthur Chislett and Ted Hancox - one of three brothers the other two of whom died elsewhere at other times - all three of whom died at Passchendaele.
The programmes drew heavily on the information contained in the book A Parish at War and this website but added valuable new information about where and under what circumstances they died. We acknowledge and are most grateful to BBC South and BBC Oxford for providing the audio and video files linked (see blue links) below.
Four other Deddington men also died at Passchendaele and are remembered - Percival Bannard, Clarence Gilkes, Ernest Hawkins, Hubert Sykes.
Radio Oxford Breakfast Programme
NB: The link from the title above is to the whole 3 hours of the programme - click on the play button at the top of the linked page then use the time-lines below to listen to the relevant segments.
Walter & William Hancox deaths, the family as bell ringers Introduction From (hrs' mins" secs"') To BBC South Breakfast Programme - Introduction 00' 00'' 00"' 00' 1'' 23"' Presenter talks about the impact of WWI on villages across UK 00' 29'' 08"' 00' 30'' 00"' Rob Forsyth talks about the impact of WWI on Deddington 00' 39'' 30"' 00' 42'' 56"' Chislett Brothers The Chislett shop on Market Place 00' 9'' 20"' 00' 13'' 19"' Norman Chislett 1' 09" 15"' 1' 11" 20"' Arthur Chislett and the Chislett names on the Menin Gate 1' 12" 08"' 1' 17" 20"' Arthur Chislett 2' 32" 48"' 2' 39" 16"' Hancox Brothers Ted Hancox 2' 39" 45"' 2' 44" 55"' Ted Hancox and others' battlefield crosses in the church 2' 47" 15"' 2' 48" 34"'
and their father's hand carved memorial 2' 53" 20"' end
BBC TV South
Both videos are approx 2 minutes long and have titles for the hard of hearing.
The Chislett brothers
The Hancox brothers
More about all the men and women from Deddington who served in wars from Waterloo to Afghanistan today can be found in A Parish at War