Gloucestershire | Stanway | War Memorial
| St. Peter’s Church, Stanway Ordnance Survey Reference: SP 061323 War Memorials |
There is a wooden cross hanging on an interior wall. It has a series of metal strips nailed to it, which have letters embossed with a punch. They read:
R U
L 10
2/LT HON J.A.CHARTERIS
1ST GRENADIER GDS.
KIA 17-10-15
There are inscriptions carved on the stone to either side of a window in
the church. They read:
REMEMBER HUGO FRANCIS ALFRED HENRY CHARTERIS LORD BUGGINS * FRANK ELCHO * IVO ALAN BUGGINS * HENRY CHARTERIS CHARLES THOMBS CHARLES RICHARD HUBERT THOMBS GERALD MITCHELL ERNEST JAMES AND FRED STARKEY TOWNSEND WHO FELL IN THE WILLIAM JAMES GREAT WAR EWINGTON AND 1914 - FRANCIS LANE 1918
And attached to the window sill itself is a bronze plaque with the
following:
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Remember also Lawrence John Samuel Bolton and Reginald Victor Tarpitt Who gave their lives in the War 1939-1945 |
War Memorial
Ordnance Survey Reference: SP 061322
A Bronze statue by the roadside on a Cotswold stone pillar. The statue
depicts St George slaying the dragon. Going anticlockwise round the four sides
of the plinth, we have:
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MEN OF STANWAY 1914-1918 FOR A TOMB THEY HAVE AN ALTAR FOR LAMENTATIONS MEMORY FOR PITY PRAISE |
ALFRED HENRY BUGGINS . FRANK BUGGINS . HENRY CHARLES THOMBS HUBERT THOMBS ERNEST JAMES TOWNSEND AND FRANCIS LANE |
FOR YOUR TO-MORROW WE GAVE OUR TO-DAY |
HUGO FRANCIS CHARTERIS LORD ELCHO . IVO ALAN CHARTERIS CHARLES RICHARD GERALD MITCHELL WILLIAM JAMES EWINGTON AND FRED STARKEY |
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