Warwickshire | Whichford | War Memorials
Church memorials:
A brass plate on a black wooden backing:
| To the memory of GEORGE CADENHEAD 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders Killed in action at Ypres, 10th May 1915. Aged 22 Son of James Cadenhead A.R.S.A. This tablet is placed here by his cousin Edith Elliot |
A brass plaque beneath a painted triptych, showing angels either side of a knight in armour holding a flag with the cross of St. George. At the knights feet are white lilies, roses, and blue iris. On the bottom part of the left hand panel is a distant view of a church, prbably whichford itself; on the right a view of a war cemetery, with the characteristic cross of sacrifice found in WW I graveyards.
| IN HONOURED MEMORY John Francis Raikes 2nd Lieut. Essex Regt. Killed on the Somme 1916 Albert Harwood Private Royal Warwick Regt. Killed on the Somme 1916 William John Moss Private Royal Warwck Regt. Missing on the Somme 1916 Ernest Tubal Morgan Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers Drowned Mediterranean 1917 Frank Harvey Private Royal Warwickshire Regt. Killed in Flanders 1917 Tom Job Lowe Lance Corporal Wiltshire Regt. Killed at Orvilliers 1918 Malcolm Johnson Williams Johnson Lieut. R.F.A. Fied in hospital 1919 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 |
Roadside memorial:
At the road junction leading to the church. (OS reference SP 314347) A cross on a square pillar, made of cotswold stone. On the four faces of the pillar, the following inscriptions (somewhat eroded):
| THESE MEN SERVED THE CAUSE OF ENGLAND AND OF EUROPE 1914-1918 YOU WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN | SERVED OVERSEAS G. BROWN T. CASTLE W.DAVIS H. GREENWAY W.H. HARWOOD F. HARWOOD W.G. HARDIMAN + J.I. RAIKES J. SANDERS H. SCARROTT E.E. SMITH H.F. BISHOP E.E. COOK W.A. COOK H.E. GIBBS F. HARVEY + A. HARWOOD W.I. LOWE P.J. MOSS + W.J. MOSS H.W. SMITH A. ALDER G.W. BEAUCHAMP H. BEAUCHAMP |
| SERVED OVERSEAS + F. HARVEY W. HAWTIN + E.T. MORGAN G. NEWMAN O.J. NEWPORT A.C. STURCH L.C. BORSBERRY W. CASTLE A.V. HARDIMAN G. HARWOOD + J.T. LOWE O. G. MOSS NATIVES OF WHICHFORD SETTLED ELSEWHERE + J. HAWTIN + F. LOWE + W. HARTLEY + W. STOWE | HOME SERVICE G. FLETCHER J.S GIBBS J. HARDMAN W. HALL W. LEWIS G. LOWE S. MORGAN F. PAINTER P.G. SLATTER S.J. SLATTER W.H. SLATTER J.G. WRIGHT |
Last modified 4 April 2002