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

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

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