Earl’s Croome & Hill Croome

Worcestershire | Earl’s Croome & Hill Croome | War Memorial

St Nicholas, Earl’s Croome Ordnance Survey reference: SO 870420 War Memorial

A marble tablet inside the church:

to the glory of God and in grateful memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914-1919

Fassett Burnett Harold Coombe Frederick Morris Leonard Taylor

“The Lord grant unto them that they may find mercy of the Lord in that day”

There is a WW I steel helmet mounted on a wooden plaque, with the following inscription on a small brass plaque:

Great War — 1914 — 1919 — Presented by Trooper James Bull – 15th Hussars “O Lord thou hast covered my head in the day of battle”

There is a military gravestone in the churchyard:

SQUADRON LEADER K.T.A.HARVEY, DFC PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 30TH DECEMBER 1941 AGE 23

Earls Croome and Hill Croome

War Memorial

Ordnance Survey reference: SO 870416

This memorial was stolen in August 2002: Details Here

This is a calvary, with a bronze Christ on a wooden cross, cross by the side of the A4104, at the junction with the road to Earl’s Croome. Photogtraph taken June On the stone base:

To the Glory of God and in honour of the men of Earls Croome and
Hill Croome who fell in the Great War and of those who served 1914-1918

A bronze plaque on the cross:

R.I.P. Fredk. Morris John Mason George Wright Francis Allport Harold Coombe Leonard Taylor Mia Smith Charles Clewer

and below that, another plaque:

Killed in the 1939-45 War Eric Harbon James Roberts Donald Stallard George Coventry Killed in action in Malaya 1951 Harry Rowberry

Notes:

1. There is a C.A. Finch, holder of the Military Medal in
the 1914-18 war, who is listed on the Severn Stoke
War Memorials. A leaflet available in Severn Stoke church states that he was actually from Hill Croome.

1. George Coventry listed in the 1939-45 section was the 10th Earl. See also his memorial plaque at Croome D’Abitot
2. Lance Corpl. 38209 Leonard Taylor was in the 4th Battalion Worcester Regt.; served France and Flanders; kiled in action 9th October 1917.
3. The roadside memorial was removed in the summer of 2000, leaving only the stone base; the site remained empty for some months, but around March/April 2001 the memorial was reerected with the original metalwork mounted on a new wooden cross, on a new red sandstone base (previously the base had been grey stone, possibly Portland stone). The photograph on this page was taken in June 2001.
   
   
   Berrow’s Worcester Journal, in the 9 January 1915 issue, printed the following list of men serving in World War I at that time:
   
   Earls Croome (population about 170)
   
   Coventry, Major the Hon. C.
   
   Bishop, Frank
   
   Bigg, Albert
   
   Bull, James
   
   Finch, Cecil
   
   Finch, Reginald
   
   Goodacre, W.
   
   Lloyd, James
   
   Morris, Frederick
   
   Morris, Walter
   
   Taylor, Aswin
   
   
   
   Hill Croome (population about 170)
   
   Gibbs, Henry
   
   Mason, William
   
   Mason, Frederick
   
   Mason, John
   
   Mason, Thomas
   
   Roberts, Sidney
   
   
   
   Several others have offered themselves from both parishes, but have been medically rejected. The four Masons are brothers, and a fifth away in the Reserves is medically unfit.
   
   
   Last Modified 21 January 2003