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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
WWI
Pte. J Atkens 3.10.14
Lt. J Kirtland 15.3.15
Pte. P.F. Chamberlin 11.6.15
Sgt. W Ingram 6.8.15
Spr. W.C. Rickard 17.2.16
Pte. A.E.P. Clark 19.7.16
Pte. G. Edwards 5.11.16
Cpl. E. Axtell 16.3.17
L-Cpl. L. Munger 10.4.17
2nd. Lt.S.A. Kempster 8.6.17
Pte. H.J.B Dean 27.8.17
Pte. A. Purssell 5.10.17
Gnr. F. Axtell 3.11.17
Pte. A. Bunce 25.11.17
Pte. P. Weedon 21.12.17
A-B. T.C. Kempster 9.1.18
L-Cpl. T. Bishop 15.4.18
Pte. H.J. Howe 22.6.18
Pte. H. Langston 2.10.18
Pte.H.L. Kempster 13.10.18
WW2
F/Sgt. E.C.W. Broad 9.4.41
Gnr. P.R. Wheeler 3.11.42
Gdsmn. E. Bunce 14.9.43
F/Sgt. E.G.B. Brooks 16.7.44
L/Cpl. C.J. Griffin 24,3,45
Tpr. J.A. Swann 12.9.45
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
References
^ Vintage postcards from the Society's archive and from the T. Hillier collection
^ Photographs by Alan Maizels.
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