Little Rissington

Gloucestershire | Little Rissington | War Memorials

St Peter’s, Little Rissington Ordnance Survey reference: SP 189200 War Memorials

A stone tablet:

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE
MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO
LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR
KING AND COUNTRY IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1918
LOUIS ST GRATIEN LE MARCHANT
D.S.O. Lt Col 1st Battn
East Lancashire Regt
MARK WEBLEY
Corporal 8th Gloucestershire Regt
ALDERMAN JUSTICE LANE
Private 2nd Gloucestershire Regt
WILLIAM CHARLES LANE
Private 7th Gloucestershire Regt
LEONARD GUY LAKE
Private 8th Gloucestershire Regt
ERNEST APPLEBY
Private 2nd Grenadier Guards

Their name liveth for evermore




A framed printed paper roll of service. Nothing on this actually indicates which war it originates from: WW II perhaps?

         THE MEN OF OUR PARISH
We pray that these men in God's keeping be
Now and for ever till war's shadow's flee

Albert Henry Roberts
Clifford John Sambell
Keith A.M. Clover
Harold Henry Sambell
Bernard Harold Sparrow
William Albert Oakey
Frank Stansby Wells
Hubert Ernest Leslie Neal
John G. Clover
Ronald George Cross
George William Lane
Percy Pratley
Stanley Edwin Collett
John Hamilton           Lena A. Oakey
William Brown           Florence G. Minchin
John Capel
John Franklin Brown




Two Marchant family memorials:
Memorial 1:


IN AfFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
ROBERT LE MARCHANT M.A. – M.D.
OF THE ISLAND OF GUERNSEY
53 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
BORN 28TH OCTOBER 1819
DIED 12TH FEBRUARY 1915
AND OF ELIZA CATHERINE HIS WIFE
DAUGHTER OF DANIEL TUPPER ESQ.
OF GUERNSEY BORN 21ST FEB 1828
DIED 25TH SEPTEMBER 1907
ALSO OF THREE OF THEIR
DEARLY LOVED CHILDREN
EDWARD HENRY BORN 30TH DEC 1853
LIEUT COLONEL COMMANDING
1ST BATT. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
SERVED IN THE AFGHAN WAR 1878-80
SHOT BY A FANATIC AT PESHAWAR
INDIA 23RD MARCH 1899
LEWIS ST GRATIEN LIEUT COLONEL D.S.O.
COMMANDING 1ST BATT EAST LANCS. REGT.
SERVED WITH THE CHITRAL RELIEF
FORCE INDIA 1895 AND THROUGHOUT
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902
BORN AT LITTLE RISINGTON
2ND DECEMBER 1866 WAS KILLED AT
LA FERTE SOUS JOUARRE FRANCE
WHILST LEADING HIS REGT. AT THE
BATTLE OF THE MARNE 9TH SEPT 1914
BEATRICE ELIZA BORN AT
LITTLE RISINGTON 8TH AUGUST 1865
SHE HAD GREAT AFFECTION FOR
THIS VILLAGE DIED 21ST APRIL 1915





Memorial 2:

IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY
OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
THE REV ROBERT LE MARCHANT
& HIS WIFE ELIZA CATHERINE LE MARCHANT

BLANCHE GERALDINE LE MARCHANT
BORN 20th MAY 1868 DIED 5th AUG 1931

JOHN GASPARD LE MARCHANT
BORN 22nd JULY 1852 DIED 14th jan 1933

ANNA MARIA ELEANOR LE MARCHANT
BORN 1st MAY 1851 DIED 19th JULY 1941

OSMOND CECIL LE MARCHANT
MAJOR 1st BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
BORN 25th SEPT 1860 DIED 4th FEB 1943
HE SERVED THROUGHOUT THE EGYPTIAN WAR
1882 & SAW FURTHER SERVICE IN THE SUDAN
AND N.W. FRONTIER OF INDIA

EMMA MARY LE MARCHANT
BORN 5th APRIL 1855. DIED 27th NOV 1943

ALICE HELEN LE MARCHANT
BORN 21st JULY 1856. DIED 21st AUG 1944

EVELYN ROBERT LE MARCHANT
ADMIRAL THE ROYAL NAVY
BORN 25th JAN 1858 DIED 12th FEB 1949
HE SERVED THROUGHOUT THE GREAT WAR
1914-18 AND WAS AWARDED THE D.S.O. FOR
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ON MANY SEAS

BASIL COLONEL ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS
BORN 11th FEB 1859 DIED 29th JULY 1956

CWGC graves in the churchyard:

Note: There are some 50-60 CWGC graves in the churchyard: men of the
RAF, Canadian and Australian Air forces who flew from the nearby airfield in
WW II. About half of these have been transcribed so far: notes on individual headstones are generally derived from information in “Wings over Gloucesterhsire” by John Rennison. (more information on this book on the Links & Sources page.)

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
P. MILLINGTON
ROYAL AIR FORCE
4TH DECEMBER 1958 AGE 28
IN MEMORY OF
A MOST DEARLY LOVED SON,
HUSBAND AND DADDY
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
J.A. SHELLEY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
4TH FEBRUARY 1954 AGE 33
TREASURED MEMORIES OF
A BELOVED HUSBAND AND DADDY
“ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS”
SQUADRON LEADER
L. GREGORY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
25TH JULY 1945 AGE 37
REMEMBERING
THE LIFE, LOVE AND LAUGHTER
OF A GALLANT
ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
FLYING OFFICER
L.W.H. CRAIG
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
22ND NOVEMBER 1944 AGE 20
19907 FLIGHT SERGEANT
J.A. HAZELDENE
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
7TH OCTOBER 1943 AGE 24
HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH
IN VICTORY
              ISIAH 25:8
Vickers Wellington R1028 from no. 21 Operational Training unit crashed at Little Rissington. Six killed: the other five dead were 1463377 Sergeant Johnson; 1456857 Sergeant Jones; 1578285 Sergeant Cox, and 1573676 Sergeant J. Smith.
Source: Wings over Gloucestershire; note that this lists the crash as being on th 8th Oct. 1943.
163 CADET 1ST CLASS
G.E.K. STONE
AIR TRAINING CORPS
11TH SEPTEMBER 1943 AGE 16
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
MUM, DAD AND BROTHERS
An Airspeed Oxford from No. 6 Service flying Training School crashed at Eastleach. Other crew killed were: 137210 P/O Barkworth, and 1067824 W.O. Renault.
Source: Wings over Gloucestershire; this reproduces a photograph of Cadet Stone on p.182
1338924 SERGEANT
P.R. HOPE
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
22ND JULY 1943 AGE 19
REST HERE IN PEACE
IN THIS OUR ENGLAND
FOR WHICH YOU DIED
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
J.F. PAGE
INSTRUCTOR NAVIGATOR
ROYAL AIR FORCE
22ND JULY 1943 AGE 29
THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN
1394394 SERGEANT
P.F. BAKER
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
12TH JUNE 1943 AGE 20
“WUGGITS”
MOST BELOVED
351015 WARRANT OFFICER
G. LARDNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
24TH NOVEMBER 1942
416472 SERGEANT
H.W. FARQUHARSON
PILOT
ROYAL N.Z. AIR FORCE
6TH NOVEMBER 1942 AGE 20
Farquharson was in Airspeed Oxford AP473 from No. 6 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit collided in midair with Airspeed Oxford BG551 during night flying; both pilots were killed as the planes fell to the ground near Little Risington and caught fire. The other pilot was 1344537 Sergeant Forrester.
Source: Wings over Gloucestershire; there is a photograph of Hector William Farquharson on page 181.

Vickers Wellington BJ728 from no. 12 Operational Training Unit crashed at Lower Farm, Upper Milton, Oxfordshire after engine failure.

Source: Wings over Gloucestershire; Photographs of William John Ferguson and Robert George McCarthy are reproduced on page 180.

1387312 SERGEANT
W.J. FERGUSON
(OF NEW ZEALAND)
OBSERVER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
16TH SEPTEMBER 1942 AGE 23
SO FAR FROM HOME
BUT ALWAYS REMEMBERED
LOVED BY ALL
415072 SERGEANT
R.G. MCCARTHY
PILOT
ROYAL N.Z. AIR FORCE
16TH SEPTEMBER 1942 AGE 27
PILOT OFICER
A.M.HENDERSON
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST AUGUST 1942 AGE 30
SOLA VIRTUS NOBILITAT
1263649 SERGEANT
M.S. HAYNES
WIRELESS OPERATOR/AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST AUGUST 1942 AGE 21
“SO HE PASSED OVER
AND ALL THE TRUMPETS
SOUNDED FOR HIM
ON THE OTHER SIDE”
411137 SERGEANT
E.D. FRANCIS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
19TH AUGUST 1942 AGE 24
GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
Airspeed Oxford AB700 from No. 6 Operations Training Unit hit a tree when it lost power taking of from Little Rissington.
Source: Wings over Gloucestershire.

The following group of burials are the victims of a bus crash on the Andoversford Road in Cheltenham, where the bus caught fire.

Robert Leslie Coppin (Listed below) came from Langenhoe, in Essex. There is a website memorial to the dead of Abberton and Langenhoe; see this link, or for the page specifically for Robert Coppin, try this link

1317209 AIRCRAFTMAN 2ND CL.
K.J. FULLER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 20
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR DEAR SON JOHN
NONE CAN TELL THE HEAVY LOSS
BUT LOVED ONES LEFT BEHIND
1084639 AIRCRAFTMAN 2ND CL.
J. BASELEY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941
1134494 AIRCRAFTMAN 2ND CL.
R.L. COPPIN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 27
“GONE IS THE ONE
WE LOVED SO DEAR
BUT IN OUR HEARTS
HE’S ALWAYS NEAR”
1154921 CORPORAL
S.F. ANDREWS
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 25
“AND WITH THE MORN
THOSE ANGEL FACES SMILE
WHICH I HAVE LOVED
LONG SINCE, AND LOST AWHILE”
52152 LDG. AIRCRAFTMAN
H.T. STOKES
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 60
“FROM THE DARKNESS
OF THE SHADE
WE STEP INTO THE LIGHT”
1525727 AIRCRAFTMEN 2ND CL.
F. POULTER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 36
1315853 LDG. AIRCRAFTMAN
S.G.P. MEDWIN
U/T PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941 AGE 19
DARLING ONLY SON OF
FLORENCE AND SIDNEY MEDWIN
AND BELOVED BROTHER OF MARY
1331436 LDG. AIRCRAFTMAN
M. BRADY DE MAYNARD
U/T PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST OCTOBER 1941
403630 SERGEANT
A.W. WESTGATE
AIR GUNNER
ROYAL N.Z. AIRFORCE
25TH MARCH 1942 AGE 25
404603 SERGEANT
R.V. DANIELS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
25TH MARCH 1942 AGE 27
HE DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE
778574 SERGEANT
E.J. BIDDULPH
(OF SOUTH AFRICA)
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
25TH MARCH 1942 AGE 20
THY WILL BE DONE
798569 SERGEANT
B. NOSEWORTHY
(OF NEWFOUNDLAND)
WIRELESS OPERATOR/AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
25TH AMRCH 1942 AGE 20
GOD GAVE THY SOUL
BRAVE WINGS
              (GEORGE HERBERT)
FLYING OFFICER
R.H. IMESON
PILOT INSTRUCTOR
ROYAL AIR FORCE
15TH MAY 1942 AGE 21
“INTO THY HANDS
ETERNAL FATHER
WE COMMEND
ALL WE HOLD MOST DEAR”
PILOT OFFICER
R.R. LEE
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
8TH APRIL 1942 AGE 21
ASLEEP IN JESUS
1210053 SERGEANT
W.F. GOOD
OBSERVER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
8TH APRIL 1942 AGE 34
ALAYS IN THE THOUGHTS
OF HIS WIFE
AND MARY, PETER AND FRANK
R9369 SERGEANT
D.G. HENDERSON
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
24TH JULY 1942 AGE 22
SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
PILOT OFFICER
W.A.H. MILLAR
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
17TH AUGUST 1942 AGE 21
IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR DEAR SON BILL
BELOVED BROTHER OF BAMBI
AND MICHAEL JOHN
411829 SERGEANT
J. MAC D. RANKIN
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
21ST AUGUST 1942 AGE 25
INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI:
AD DEUM, QUI LAETIFICAT
JUVENTUTEM MEAM
1388174 SERGEANT
MICHAEL GARDNER
AIR BOMBER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
17TH JUNE 1943 AGE 21
BORN 22ND MAY 1922
KILLED 17TH JUNE 1943
1577478 SERGEANT
A.J. GREATBATCH
PILOT
14TH JUNE 1943 AGE 22
BELOVED SON OF
ERNEST W. GREATBATCH AND
THE LATE ALICE T. GREATBATCH
IN MORTE RIDEMUS
574409 FLIGHT SERGEANT
D.J. COOPER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
9TH MARCH 1955 AGE 33
IN TREASURED MEMORY
IN MIND A CONSTANT THOUGHT
IN HEART A SILENT SORROW
FLYING OFFICER
A.R. WARDELL ROYAL AIR FORCE
9TH MARCH 1955 AGE 21
TREASURED MEMORIES OF
OUR DEAR SON
“THEY SHALL MOUNT
LIKE EAGLES TO THE SKY”
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
B.G. RENDLE
ROYAL AIR FORCE
28 JULY 1954 AGE 25
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
DEAR BRIAN
HIS SUN ROSE HIGH
BUT SUNSET CAME ERE LONG
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
R. BENNETT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
28TH JULY 1954 AGE 30
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND
GOD BLESS YOU DARLING
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
C.H. LAZENBY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
28TH JULY 1954 AGE 32
“THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD”
THY WILL BE DONE
SQUADRON LEADER
J SATCHELL
ROYAL AIR FORCE
28TH MARCH 1959 AGE 41
MEMORIES SO DEAR
YOUR EVER LOVING WIFE
AND DAUGHTERS
MARY AND HILARY
 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
J.H. HARDAKER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
26TH AUGUST 1959 AGE 28
“YOUR LIFE YOU GAVE.
OTHERS TO SAVE.
YOUR REWARD.
A PLACE BEYOND THIS GRAVE”
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
T.J. DOE
ROAYL AIR FORCE
26TH JUNE 1962 AGE 38
YOU FELL ASLEEP
WITHOUT GOODBYE
SADLY MISSED
YOUR LOVING WIFE
PAT AND CHILDREN
 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
H.W. CARTER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
26TH JUNE 1962AGE 24
TREASURED MEMORIES OF
MY BELOVED SON
UNTIL THE DAY DAWN
1920878 SERGEANT
J. DONALD
ROYAL AIR FORCE
5TH NOVEMBER 1962 AGE 30
TREASURED MEMORIES OF
OUR DEAR BROTHER
“UNTIL THE DAY BREAK
AND SHADOWS FLEE AWAY”
 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
E. ROBERTS D.F.C.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
26TH JANUARY 1965 AGE 40
GOD BLESS DEAREST HUSBAND
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
WIN AND CHILDREN
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
K.T.A. SULLIVAN D.F.C.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
21ST FEBRUARY 1968 AGE 47
AND THE PEACE OF
GOD WHICH PASSETH
ALL UNDERSTANDING
SHALL KEEP YOU
 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
J.J. BOWLER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
26TH MARCH 1969 AGE 27
VERY DEAR SON OF
GROUP CAPTAIN & MRS. G.R. BOWLER
AND BROTHER OF
ANN AND RICHARD
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
C. ARMSTRONG
ROYAL AIR FORCE
20TH JANUARY 1971 AGE 26
I KNEW YOUR JOY
AND YOUR PAIN
AND IN YOUR SLEEP
YOUR DREAMS ARE MY DREAMS
 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
J.S. HADDOCK
ROYAL AIR FORCE
20TH JANUARY 1971 AGE 27
LOVING
GENUKI’s Little Rissington Page

Last modified 27 October 2002