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St Mary, Deerhurst Ordnance Survey reference: SO 870299 war Memorials

A framed parchment in the church, near the entrance. The names are duplicated on the monument at Apperley (see below), but the Apperley monument has an additional name – W. Crook:

                 Roll of Honour
              Parish of Deerhurst
In Glorious and Grateful Memory of the foillowing men
     who died for their KING & COUNTRY during the 
              GREAT WAR 1914-1919

   Sidney E. Bailey         William H. Roberts
   William Boulton          Henry T. Roberts
   Lewis A Cox              Lewis E Roberts
   George E Fowler          Edward A Roberts
   William Green            George Roberts
   Charles Humphries        William Roberts
   Sidney Mince             Ernest Turner
   William Munday           Ernest Willis
   Frank Pope               Hubert Willis

                    R. I. P. 
 "Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man 
       lay down his life for his friends"

There are a number of memorials to the Strickland family, one of which includes the following:

Algernon Guy Strickland

Royal Air Force

Born September 22nd 1919

Killed in action May 9th 1942

Buried at Schleswig, Germany

Carved into the church door:

To the Glory of God
and in
Loving and Grateful memory
of
George S. Kaye Butterworth
and his cousin
Hugh Montague Butterworth
who gave their lives for their country
in France and Flanders
1915-1916
Grandsons of the Rev^d George Butterworth
Vicar of this Parish 1856-1893

For biographical information about the above George Sainton Kaye Butterworth MC(1885-1916), who served in the Durham Light Infantry, see http://www.calculator.net/Butterworth/Butterworth.html

A couple of military gravestones in the churchyard:

123047 PRIVATE
L.A. COX
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
9TH DECEMBER 1917

MS/732 PRIVATE
G. CHALK
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
6TH FEBRUARY 1919
OH FOR A TOUCH
OF THE VANISHED HAND
& A SOUND OF
THE VOICE THAT IS STILL

Apperley

Ordnance Survey reference: SO 862284

A stone cross on an area of grass.

        In memory of the men of the
   parish of Deerhurst who sacrificed their 
      lives in the Great War 1914-1919
S.C. Bailey      S. Mince       G. Roberts
W. Boulton       W. Munday      W. Roberts
L.A. Cox         F. Pope        E. Turner
W. Crook         W.H. Roberts   E. Willis
G.E. Fowler      A.T. Roberts   H. Willis
W. Green         L.E. Roberts
C. Humphries     E.A. Roberts
 Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by?

                  1939-1945
A. Andrews      W. Clifford    H. Salmon
E. Banfield     H. Hoskins     G. Savins
R. Bartlett     A. Hawker      G. Strickland

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Last modified 12 October 2002