Gloucestershire | Gretton | War Memorial
| Christchurch, Gretton Ordnance Survey reference: SP 006305 War Memorial |
A dark bronze plaque by the door, the raised lettering being a polished copper colour
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1914 – 1919 ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR DOUGHTY H.C. FRY W.J. GRIFFIN E.A. LANE H. STEPHENS E.W. STEPHENS J. TAYLOR G.W. ALSO IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945 DAVIS E.A. DAVIS E.C HOBBES S.F. |
Two graves in the churchyard:
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25741 PRIVATE H. LANE WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT 29TH JUNE 1917 AGE 19 |
5493475 CORPORAL E.A. DAVIS THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT. 1ST FEBRUARY 1942 AGE 34 HIS BROTHERS JAMES THOMAS AND EDWARD COTTERILL WERE KILLED 9-5-1917 AND 29-5-1940 |
Note: There is also a memorial fountain (now a flower bed) in the middle of
the village. That’s already been recorded by John Hyde, so there’s no point in my listing it: see instead the listing on Stuart Flight’s Gloucestershire Pages, Here
| GENUKI’s Gretton Page |
Last modified 23 November 1999