Gloucestershire | Ashchurch | War Memorial
| Ashchurch War Memorial Ordnance Survey reference: SO 927332 |
This is a stone cross on a small fenced green by the roadside between
Ashchurch Primary School and the Village Hall, almost opposite the drive to
St Nicholas Church. On the base, on the right hand side, is carved what is presumably the name of the stonemasons: Fry, of Cheltenham
There are four bronze plaques on the base of this cross.
I think there were only two 1939-1945 dead, so their names were added to
the second plaque:
Two plaques on the front:
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THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE THIS CROSS IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOLLOWING WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY |
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1914 – 1918 J. BERTRAM F. CARTLAND MAJOR 1ST WORCS. THE HON. ALBERT H. MAITLAND MAJOR QNS. CAM. HIGH. FREDERICK E NIXON ETHERSALL MAJOR R.A. 1939-1945 THOMAS J. JONES GDSM COLDSTREAM GUARDS ALFRED P. LANE GFM R.E.M.E. |
On the left hand side of the base:
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1914 – 1918
WILLIAM A ATTWOOD 1ST HEREFORD HAROLD GRIFFITHS 8TH GLOS. CHARLES W. HOPTON SERGT. 7TH GLOS. HAROLD HUTCHINGS R.A.S.C. GEORGE MALLETT 2ND E. YORKS. A CHARLES DAY R.E. WILLIAM HALLING R.N. HMS MONMOUTH CHARLES F. HUTCHINGS MM 2ND. LT. RGA HENRY J. JONES 3RD WORCS. FRANK STEEL SERGT. IST GLOS. JOSEPH A TRAPP SERGT. 11TH MIDD. |
On the right hand side of the base:
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1914 -1918
JESSE NIND 7TH WORCS. WILLIAM PAGE 5TH E LANCS. JOHN POTTER 10TH GLOS. ALLEN V SALLIS K SHROPS. L.I. ARTHUR WITTS 1ST GLOS. ERNEST V.S. NUNNEY 10TH GLOS. W FREDERICK PARSON R.C.H. LEONARD J. SALLIS MGC LIONEL STICKLEY D. CORN. L.I. CHARLES H. WOOLEY 2ND GLOS. |
Notes:
- Jesse Nind, listed above was from Eckington. He is also listed on the Eckington War Memorials, and there is a little more information about him there.
- J. Bertram F. Cartland is also listed on the Pershore Abbey memorial. There is a memorial to him, his two sons (died WW II), and his wife Mary, in the churchyard of Tewkesbury abbey.
St Nicholas, Ashchurch
Ordnance Survey reference: SO 927333
In the church:
A brass plate:
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES WILLIAM HOPTON SERGEANT IN THE 7TH GLO’STER REGT ONLY DEARLY LOVED SON OF JOHN C & ANNIE E HOPTON OF COWFIELD FARM WHO DIED ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP “AQUITAINE” FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED AT THE DARDANELLES AND WAS BURIED AT SEA ON AUGUST 17TH 1915 AGED 24 YEARS “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” |
A tablet in pink/grey stone:
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IN PROUD LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON CHARLES KNOWLES STEWARD, D.S.O., M.C. WHO DIED 1ST AUGUST 1929, AGED 37 AFTER SERVING IN THE GREAT WAR WHERE HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED. “THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE THE FROM ALL EVIL” A TRIBUTE FROM HIS MOTHER |
And a brass plate as memorial to an old soldier:
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Major General Edward Altay, C.B. Royal Artillery December 9th 1824. December 1 1895 buried at La Sallaz Lausanne Erected in loving memory by his daughter Florence, wife of Colonel Henry Gillun-Webb of Walton House in this Parish |
In the churchyard
Two CWGC headstones:
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SECOND LIEUTENANT C.F. HUTCHINGS MM ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY 15TH JANUARY 1919 ‘FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT’ |
7595527 SGT. R.A. HEDLEY ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS 7TH APRIL 1965 AGE 47 OUR LIFE TOGETHER A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY YOUR LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTER R.I.P. |
Memorials on two gravestones:
In
loving memory of
Joseph Halling
Who died 14 March 1968
aged 79 years
and his brother
William Halling
who lost his life in
a naval engagement
off Coronel
1st November 1914
aged 28 years
Rest In Peace
Sacred to the memory of
our dear mother
Fanny Whiting
died 23rd June 1963
aged 78 years
and of our father
Paul Thomas Bevan
Killed in action 1914
No Known Grave
He giveth his beloved sleep
Last modified 10 June 2000