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Princethorpe Cemetery War Memorial

South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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Princethorpe Cemetery War Memorial
Princethorpe Cemetery, Leamington Road, Princethorpe, Rugby CV23 9PX

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 TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRINCETHORPE PARISH
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE FOR KING AND COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 ~ 1918

WILLIAM POOLE LEONARD TRACEY ALFRED SMITH JOHN W. SMITH
       

©Bibliography All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, those that are not are © Ian Shuter & SWFHS. We are VERY grateful to these other sources:

  • Photographs Courtesy of Loretta Curtis, Jack FitzSimmons and the War Memoiral Trust
  • War Diary extracts are courtesy and copyright of The National Archives.
  • Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
  • Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum for help with Yeomanry Soldiers
  • The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
  • Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
  • The Great War Forum an excellent source of information and knowledge which is freely given.
  • Lightbobs.com for help with Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry soldiers
  • The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment by C. L. KINGSFORD - Copy owned by SWFHS
  • The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by The Hon. H.A ADDERLEY - Copy owned by SWFHS
  • Service Number information from the Army Service Numbers website

 

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Whichford War Memorial

South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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Whichford War Memorial Cross & Plaque
Ascott Road, Whichford, Stratford On Avon, CV36 5P

THESE MEN SERVED THE CAUSE OF ENGLAND AND EUROPE
1914 ~ 1918
YOU WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN

 A. ALDER G.W. BEAUCHAMP H. BEAUCHAMP H.F. BISHOP L.G. BORSBERRY G. BROWN
E.E. COOK T. CASTLE W. CASTLE W. A. COOK W. W. DAVIS H. E. GIBBS
H. GREENWAY A.V. HARDIMAN W.G. HARDIMAN ~ FRANK HARVEY † F. HARVEY
A. HARWOOD † G. HARWOOD F. HARWOOD W.H. HARWOOD J. HAWTIN † W. HAWTIN
M.J.W. JOHNSON † F. E. LOWE † T. J. LOWE † W.I. LOWE W. MATTHEWS † E.T. MORGAN †
W. J. MOSS † O.G. MOSS P.J. MOSS O.J NEWPORT J.F. RAIKES † J. SANDERS
H. SCARROTT E.E. SMITH G. NEWHAM H.W SMITH W. STOWE † A. C. STURCH
           

† = Killed/Died

Church Plaques

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF

JOHN FRANCIS RAIKES ALBERT HARWOOD WILLIAM JOHN MOSS ERNEST TUBAL MORGAN FRANK HARVEY
~ TOM JOB LOWE ~ MALCOLM J. W. JOHNSON ~
         

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES AT THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL. TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND FOR THE SAKE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THE GREAT WAR 1914~1918
IN THE LORD IS THEIR REWARD AND THE CARE FOR THEM WITH THE MOST HIGH

ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE CADENHEAD
George Cadenhead WW1 Plaque

©Bibliography: All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:

  • Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
  • Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum For Help with Yeomanry Soldiers
  • The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
  • Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
  • The Great War Forum an excellent source of information and knowledge which is freely given.
  • The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment by C. L. KINGSFORD
  • The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by The Hon. H.A ADDERLEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wolston War Memorials

South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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Wolston War Memorial & Church Plaque
St. Margarets Church and The Green, Main Street, Wolston, Rugby CV8 3HH

IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WOLSTON
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR US
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 ~ 1918
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

DAVID W. ANDERSON JOHN H. ATKINS WALTER ATKINS WILLIAM BARKER ARTHUR BUNNEY
ROLAND B. BUTLIN ERNEST CHAMBERS JOSEPH J. CLARKE WILFRED B. CONWAY WALTER DAVIS
JOSEPH P.H. EDMANS FRANCIS J. ELLIOT WILLIAM J. FLOWERS FREDERICK T. HOWARD CHARLES HOWKINS
HERBERT H. KENNEY JOHN LIXENFIELD OWEN WYNN W.H. MEREDITH HUBERT MORRIS GEORGE E. OWEN
LOUIS PAGE THOMAS POWELL FREDERICK J.F. SHEPHERD HARRY SMITH ROBERT WELLS
~ CHARLES WOODINGS ~ GEORGE YEOMANS ~

1939 ~ 1945

DENYS ADDISON WILLIAM, LUCAS JOHN W. OLDFIELD DICK M. FEAR

AFGHANISTAN 2007
PHILLIP W. NEWMAN

St. Margarets Church Plaque and Roll of Honour

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 ~ 1918
AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 ~ 1945
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

DAVID W. ANDERSON JOHN H. ATKINS WALTER ATKINS WILLIAM BARKER ROWLAND A.J. BEECH
GEORGE BOSTOCK ARTHUR BUNNEY ROLAND B. BUTLIN ERNEST CHAMBERS JOSEPH J. CLARKE
WILLIAM R. CLARKE WILFRED B. CONWAY WALTER DAVIS JOSEPH P.H. EDMANS FRANCIS J. ELLIOT
WILLIAM J. FLOWERS ELLIOT G. HALFORD SIDNEY A. HALFORD WILLIAM J. HEMMINGS FREDERICK T. HOWARD
CHARLES HOWKINS W. FREDERICK HUBY HERBERT H. KENNEY JOHN LIXENFIELD OWEN WYNN W.H. MEREDITH
HUBERT MORRIS GEORGE E. OWEN LOUIS PAGE THOMAS POWELL FREDERICK J.F. SHEPHERD
HARRY SMITH CHARLES A. WARD ROBERT WELLS CHARLES WOODINGS GEORGE YEOMANS

WORLD WAR TWO

DENYS ADDISON WILLIAM LUCAS JOHN W. OLDFIELD DICK M. FEAR

©Bibliography All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, those that are not are © Ian Shuter & SWFHS. We are VERY grateful to these other sources:

  • War Diary extracts are courtesy and copyright of The National Archives.
  • Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
  • Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum for help with Yeomanry Soldiers
  • The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
  • Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
  • The Great War Forum an excellent source of information and knowledge which is freely given.
  • Lightbobs.com for help with Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry soldiers
  • The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment by C. L. KINGSFORD - Copy owned by SWFHS
  • The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by The Hon. H.A ADDERLEY - Copy owned by SWFHS
  • Service Number information from the Army Service Numbers website

 

 

 

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South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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Hampton Lucy War Memorial Plaque
St Peter ad Vincula Church, Church St, Hampton Lucy, Warwick CV35 8BE

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 JOHN GRIFFIN GEORGE MORRIS ARNOLD SIMMONDS ALFRED BURTON GEORGE GIBBS


WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1914-1919

World War Two

ALSO OF SIDNEY VICTOR HUCKFIELD IN THE WAR 1939-1945

ETERNAL LIGHT GRANT UNTO THEM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

Bibliography: All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:

  • Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
  • Information about George Gibbs from Dene Valley U3A
  • The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
  • Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.

Brailes and Winderton

South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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Brailes and Winderton War Memorial
St. George's Church, High Street, Lower Brailes, Stratford on Avon, OX15 5HS


 TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 ~ 1918
FROM THE PARISH OF BRAILES AND WINDERTON

WALTER ELLIOT WILLIAM REASON JOSEPH ALEXANDER ERNEST AUSTIN WALTER BOX
OWEN BRADLEY JOHNATHON WHING CLAYDON WILLIAM HENRY CLIFTON BERT FAIRBROTHER WILLIAM FIELD
CHARLES HEMMINGS THOMAS JEFFS FRANCIS JOSEPH SPENCER ARTHUR CHARLES SPICER HENRY WALKER
         

 GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN
LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS - St John XV.13

1939 ~ 1945

 JOSEPH WILLIAM HARRIS FRANCIS H. FOWLER CECIL FREDERICK HIBBERD

Bibliography: All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:

  • Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
  • Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum For Help with Yeomanry Soldiers
  • The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
  • Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
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