War Memorial
On the green at the top of School Lane is a simple granite combined War Memorial in the form of a Celtic Cross erected in 1920 and inscribed with twenty names of those that fell in the Great War.
Six additional names were added on a separate plaque following the Second World War.
Further names were added in 2002 following research for a book about the village, during the First World War, by June Underwood. The memorial was rededicated at a special service on 10 Nov 2002 to. Egbert Bates' omission was only discovered in October 2002.[2]
We have a number of images of the green in front of the Union Chapel prior to the erection of the memorial, This is image WTPC-0063 from our digital archive, published by "W.J.Humphries, Boot Warehouse, Weston Turville" with earliest Postmark 20 Sep 1914. Village Green before the memorial[1]
The Original Names on War Memorial
Cutting the names 19 Aug 2002[3]
The following names were added in 2002.
And after[1]
Completed new names 2002[3]
North-East face
C1921[1]
C1925[1]
The Inter-war years
2012
Inscriptions on the North-West Face of Monument 2012
References
^ Vintage postcards from the Society's archive and from the T. Hillier collection
^ Photographs by Alan Maizels.