Roll of Honour
Lieutenant Hugh Chesterman
Linked to: Islip
Service Number: 94264
Regiment: Royal Berks. Reg.
Conflict: World War Two
Date of Death: 3rd November 1941
Age at Death: 57
Burial/Memorial Location: Islip Churchyard, Oxfordshire, UK
Son of Charles Frederick & Frances Elizabeth Chesterman. Husband of Sylvia Wyse Chesterman, of Confessor's Gate, Islip. Also served in WW1. He wrote many children's books in the 1920s and 30s, and edited a children's magazine called The Merry Go Round, published in Oxford with his great friend Basil Blackwell.