Gloucestershire | Down Hatherley | War Memorial
| St Mary & Corpus Christi, Down Hatherley Ordnance Survey reference: SO 868224 War Memorials |
A dark bronze plaque by the door:
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IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE PARISH OF DOWN HATHERLEY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 THOMAS WHEELER ALBERT JOHN PRIDAY HENRY GEORGE SMITH M.M. JOHN DAVIS R.I.P. |
A brass plaque:
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF SQUADRON LEADER RONALD E.S. SMITH D.F.C. & BAR R.A.F. KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE 9TH SEPTEMBER 1944 |
There are two stained glass windows of note:
The first shows an “Arthurian” style knight setting out on a quest. The text in the window reads:
To the Greater Glory of God
and in memory of
Thomas Villers Tuthill
Thacker Neville
The second window depicts the same knight having a vison of the Holy Grail: the dedication reads:
Captain 3rd Dragoon Guards
Killed in action at Ypres
on Ascension Day 1915
Inscriptions in the stone beneath the two windows read, respectively:
Erected by Launa Hughes Martin his betrothed wife.
And:
Erected by Zoe Robinson his sister
[I suspect that the face of the knight in these windows is actually that of
the man commemorated, but this is just a conjecture on my part]
A dark bronze tablet:
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+ IN LOVING MEMORY OF + ANTHONY GILBERT JONES J.P., WHO DIED AT HATHERLEY COURT ON THE 4TH OCT. 1887, AND OF HIS WIDOW ELIZABETH WHO DIED AT DAWLISH ON THE 21ST FEB. 1909, BOTH LIVED EXEMPLARY LIVES OF SERVICE IN THIS PARISH FROM 1844 ONWARDS ALSO OF FRANCIS WILLIAM JONES (ONE OF THEIR SEVEN SONS) WHO ACTED AS CHURCHWARDEN AND ORGANIST HERE FOR 29 YEARS, AND DIED ON THE 28TH DEC. 1922 ALSO OF THEIR GREAT GRANDSON FREDERICK HATHERLEY BRUCE SELOUS, M.C., CAPTAIN, THE QUEEN’S (ROYAL WEST SURREY) REGT. AND R.F.C., WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 4TH JAN 1918 (AGED 20) WHILE LEADING HIS FLIGHT OVER THE GERMAN LINES ON THE MENIN ROAD NEAR ROULERS ALSO OF THEIR GRANDSON 2ND LIEUT. JAFFRAY FRYER SELOUS JONES R.E. WHO WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AT HIGH WOOD, BATTLE OF THE SOMME, AND DIED AT ROUEN ON THE 25TH AUG 1916 AGED 24 THE VESTRY ORGAN CHAMBER AND ORGAN HAVE BEEN BUILT BY THE EXECUTORS OF THE ABOVE F.W. JONES IN PURSUANCE OF HIS DIRECTIONS. |
Note: Jaffray Selous Jones appears to have been a student at Birmingham University: His name appears on the Birmingham University War Memorial. He is also listed on the Twigworth war memorial, though a middle initial is different on that memorial: I need to check this, the next time I’m in the area.
Gravestones:
Five CWGC headstones in the churchyard:
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966977 AIRCRAFTMAN 2ND CL. S.E. PARKINS ROYAL AIR FORCE 29TH JUNE 1940 AGE 25 TOO DEARLY LOVED EVER TO BE FORGOTTEN MOTHER |
754097 SERGEANT W.G. LANE U/T. PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 9TH SEPTEMBER 1940 AGE 21 A BELOVED SON IN WHOM WE ARE WELL PLEASED |
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FLIGHT LIEUTENANT R.G. COVENTRY PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 23RD SEPTEMBER 1940 AGE 30 |
SQUADRON LEADER R.E.S. SMITH D.F.C PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 9TH SEPTEMBER 1944 AGE 28 HE REACHED HIS GOAL ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND |
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T2/SR/03479 DRIVER F. ROBERTS ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS 11TH JANUARY 1921 |
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