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St Bartholemew’s, Bayton Ordnance Survey Reference SO 691732 War Memorials

This listing was kindly contributed by Kevin Lynott.


The memorial is constructed from marble and is affixed to an interior wall directly opposite the entrance to the church

GEORGE C. HUMPHRIES    IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF           H. EDGAR WIGGAN
12 MARCH 1915              MEN OF THIS PARISH            25 APRIL 1917
            WHO DIED FOR ENGLAND
EDWARD PARRY        IN THE GREAT WAR        HARRY EVANS
10 AUGUST 1915                        31 MAY 1917

C. FREDERICK WIGGAN                    ERNEST TOMKINS
25 SEPTEMBER 1915                    16 JUNE 1917

WILLIAM PARRY                           FREDERICK J. HUMPHRIES
3 JUNE 1916                        22 OCTOBER 1917

WILFRED ROBERTS                        PETER J. BRADLEY
12 AUGUST 1916                        6 NOVEMBER 1918

JOSEPH MILWARD                        WILLIAM THOMAS
18 OCTOBER 1916                        17 NOVEMBER 1918
                          1914-1918

                         ERIC MONTAGU

                         1939-1945

There is a brass plate attached to the choir stalls bench:

TO THE MEMORY OF ERIC MONTAGU
A REGULAR WORSHIPPER IN THIS PLACE.
HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ITALY
ON OCTOBER 12TH 1943
He ever sought to serve god and his neighbour


In the entrance porch there is a roll of those who served hand painted onto a wooden board with a carved surround:


ROLL OF HONOUR

OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE

GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 Beard, Edward L.
Blunt, Cecil
Boraston, William
Bore, Thomas
Bradley, Andrew
Busk, Herbert
Bytheway, Alfred H.
Carroll, Frank
Carroll, Jack
Davis, Francis
Davies, William
Derrick, Fred
Evans, Jack
Frazier, William
Gibson, Ernest W.
Halford, George
Highfield, Loseph
Humphries George
Humphries, Reginald
Jones, Arthur T.
Jones, Frank
Jones, Harold
Jones, Herbert
Lambert, Edwin
Lewis, Fred
Luff, Edgar
Mather, Harry R.
Mather, Rupert
Miles, Fred
Parry, George
Parry, Harry
Pound, Fred
Prescott, George
Smith, William
Stokes, William H.
Tomkins, Alfred
Tyler, James
Tyler, Llewellyn
Tyler, Richard
Tyler, Tom
Whiteman, William
Winwood, Charles
Winwood, Charles H.
Winwood, Edward
Wyer, Arthur
Wyer, Ernest
Attached to an outer wall there is the following memorial:-
AND IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CRANE CAWOOD, M.A. (OXON)
CAPTAIN R.F.A. (T.F.)
5TH SON OF REV. JOHN CAWOOD FORMERLY
VICAR OF THIS PARISH. AND OF MARY
BORN PENSAX AUG. 21ST 1869.
DIED MHOW, INDIA. MAY 24TH 1915. WHILST ON FOREIGN SERVICE
Not on the battlefield but none the less
he died for England


Last modified 11 January 2001