I Need some help!
I was approached by the part-time secretary at All Saints’ Church in Roodebloem, Woodstock. She was clearing out the church cellar and found the two shields pictured below. They have 150 names on them and they both have a heading ‘On Active Service’ but one has the year 1939 on it. I suspect that they were placed on the wall of the church so that worshippers could prayer for the safety of these men on active service. The secretary asked me how she could find out more about these people. Unfortunately, there are only initials and no first names and many of the surnames are quite common names like BROWN and WILLIAMS. I have been doing some searches for the less common names and found quite a few who were baptised and married in All Saints Church but others I could find no entries on www.familysearch.org , www.gendatabase.com and NAAIRS.
I am wondering if anyone can help. If you recognise a name and you know they had a Woodstock connection do let me know – especially if you have their first names.
