Location
Beneath the organ loft in the South-East corner of the church.
Description
An oak tablet 2500mm x 500mm.
Memorial
Inscription (Left Section)
Inscription (Centre Section)
Inscription (Right Section)
1914 | |
SAILORS James L Ashton Walter S Busby Francis Carter William Farr Henry Green Owen H Harman James Hiscock Richard James William R Mayne Markham H Phillips Percy Roberts Henry P Sexton Robert Smith Arthur Stroud |
Arthur Turner Gerald De La Motte Turner William J Wallace George HR Walters Richard J White William E Buckingham __________________ ROYAL AIR FORCE Maurice F Oakley John De Camborne Paynter Robert Tilley |
Inscription (Centre Section)
THE ROOD IS IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR MAY THEY REST IN PEACE | |
SOLDIERS Alexander W Abercrombie Alexander R Abercrombie Goerge H Abraham Edward F Adams William Bannister Charles Brown Frederick AG Bruford William Care Alfred HG Chatterton Ernest E Clift Charles H Curwood Hubert J Daniell George M Dawkins Frederick W Dunstan Manley F Ashwin (Priest) |
George W Dyer Reginald F Fleming Frank Green Ernest F Hall Albert C Heather Reginald HE Henning Henry W Jenkins Victor L Jenkins Edwin F Johnson Alfred W Linington Neil Mackay Lawrence Mackay Albert W McGregor Reginald HE Pitman |
HELENA MARGARET DOVE Frank M Munden Harold Lane |
Inscription (Right Section)
1918 | |
Archibald J McPhaden Basil Miles Blenheim C Mitchell Arthur W Morey Charles Mundey Frederick Ogden Alfred P Peachey Reginald Perry Edward J Pole Geoffrey Porter Thomas M Redding Henry GW Reeve Augustine Robinson Edward Steel |
Harry M Stephens John H Stewart Percy Tanner Thomas Tiller Charles T Tracey Ernest Viney Alfred G Willcox James W Whettem Jack Whitcombe William Williams Alfred C Wood Charles S Woodwards Herbert F Wyatt Sydney LF Hughes |
Further Information
The oak tablet has carved inscriptions on all sides dating from before the First World War
ON THE LEFT: "The top of the original altar table of this church composed of old oak from Midhurst Church Sussex"
ALONG THE TOP: "Presented by Col Moffatt. Churchwarden in 1883. Five pieces of oak 1500 years old taken"
ON THE RIGHT: "From St Patricks Chapel, Drumlane, Ireland and have been removed and placed in the new altar"
ALONG THE BOTTOM: "It has been placed here for preservation after the erection of the new altar Dec 1905. Maurice R Bailey MA Vicar"