Priory Church of St. Mary & St. Michael, Great MalvernOrdnance Survey reference: SO 776458 War Memorial |
1914 IN MEMORIAM 1919
THEY WHOM THIS MONUMENT
COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED
AMONGST THOSE WHO AT THE CALL
OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL
THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM: ENDURED
HARDNESS : FACED DANGER &
FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE
SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF
DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE GIVING
UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT
OTHERS MAY LIVE IN FREEDOM
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER
SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES
BE NOT FORGOTTEN
Remember with thanksgiving the men of Gt. Malvern
Douglas Harry Acworth MC
John Arden Acworth
William Thomas Banford
Harry Beale
George Brodie
Frederick Edwin Bruton
Arthur Bunn
Cyril Frederick Crapp
William Jabez Evans
Stanley Colt Faber
Cyril Henry Rowland Foxwell
Horace Boddington Gibbs
Mornington George Giles
William Grendon
William George John Heath
Malcolm Hutchinson House
Alban John Benedict Hudson MC
Ernest Henry Huntington
Robert Hustings Kendle
Albert Francis Gerald Lambert
Joseph Albert Layland
Herbert Lee
Douglas Cecil Leeke
Percy Arnold Lloyd-Jones D.S.O.
Eric James Bethune Mackenzie
Ronald Charles Wybrow Morgan
Frank Bailey Perkins
Charles Edward Preece
Victor William Price
John Yate Robinson, M.C.
Henry Ellis Robinson
Ernest Wilmot Scallon
James Frederick Spillsbury
Humphry Nisbet Swann
Reginald Paul Thompson
Walter John Tipton
Edgar William Venner
William John Walker
Henry Martin Windsor
Richard Hartland Woods
Charles Gilbert Andree Wylde
And others who worshipped in this church
1939-1945
Henry Brooks Brown
Stanley Hudson Burley
Philip John Lancaster Crook
Paul Nelson Dobie
Vernon Richard Mason
David Henry Milward
Anthony Irving Phelps
Charles Jack Pitchford
James John Taaffe
John Cedric Rogan Type
Guy Taylor
Philip Mascie Domville Wynter
Peter Norman Walker
Peter Harold Wheelock
Notes:
1. Alban John Benedict Hudson appears to have originated from Wick, Worcestershire, and he is listed on the Wick War Memorial and Roll of honour
2. Cyril Foxwell and Peter Norman Walker were ex-pupils of Worcester Grammar school, and their names are listed on the school memorial
In the churchyard:
Just outside the priory, is a row of 11 wooden crosses, on
bronze stands mounted on sandstone bases. (Battlefield crosses brought back to england?) Some of the inscriptions are
somewhat eroded, and only partially legible:
| Major Douglas Harry Acworth MC Order of the Nile 55 Cokes Rifles Frontier Force Indian Army Died of pneumonia at Port Said Egypt 6th Feb 1919 aged 33 years God himself shall be with them and be their God [Slight erosion: the age may be 32 years] |
John Arden Acworth ? Bat. Worcestershire Regiment Mortally wounded 1st Oct died 15 Oct 1917 aged 19 years The glory ??? he hath given me I have given unto them |
| [no name – may once have been on the cross itself] Killed at Roncquevillers Interred at Warlincourt, Halte British Cemetery This wooden cross was brought from Warlington Halte |
In M ???? n?t Stanley ??rmer Major RIA Lote ???????? ion March ????? 1917 Arras |
| Frank Bailey Perkins Captain Battery 10th Brigade R.I.A. Killed in action May 19th 1917 Buried in the Pauborc d’Amiens Cemetery Arras |
In memoriam Charles Gilbert Andrew Wylde Killed in Action on May 21st 1915 aged 24 Pro rege et Patria |
| In proud and loving memory of John Lancelot Walmesley Stock B.A. Oxon. 2nd Lieut. 3rd Dorset Regt Attd. 6th Somerset L.I. Died Nr Arras of wounds received 3rd May 1917 and also of James Mulock Thompson Stock B.A. Oxon. Temp. Capt. 8th East Lancs. Regt. Fell whilst leading his men when badly wounded at Beaumont-Hamel 13th May 1917 Only children of the late Lt. Col. & Mrs Walmsley and they rose to their feet a hepa sidey gentlemen unarmed |
In memory of Humphry Nisbet Swann Captain 2nd Battn Lincolnshire regt. Died on active service in France April 11th 1917 aged 24 |
| In memory of Ernest Henry Huntington Pte Australian Infantry Died on active service in France April 25th 1916 aged 25 |
Richard Hartland Wood 2nd. Lieut. 8th K.R.R.C. Killed in action Dec 4th 1917 Interred in Tyne Cot Cemetery |
| Colonel Calthrop R.I.A. Killed in action Dec. 1915 ??? loved |
Note: Colonel Calthrop is possibly the Everard Ferguson Calthrop who has a memorial in St. Andrew’s, Malvern |