Lower Broad Heath


Worcestershire | Lower Broad Heath | War Memorial

Christ church, Lower Broad Heath Ordnance Survey reference: SO 810572 War Memorial


Inside the church:

          In Honoured Memory
       of the men of this parish
  who gave their lives for their country
            in the Great War 
               1914 - 1918

2nd Lieut. A.L. Cumming R.F.C. France 1917    
  2nd Lieut E.C. Symons M.G.C France 1916
2ndLieut C.H.L. Symons  R.Fus. France 1917
   Cpl A. Callow  Worc.Rg. France 1917
 O.S.  R. Bosley  H.M.S. "Bulwark" 1914
  Gnr. R. Munn MM   R.F.A. France 1916
 Pte. W. Biggerstaff  Linc.R. France 1917
    Pte F.C. Boaz  Worc.R. France 1918
  Pte J. Brailee  R.War.R. Blandford 1916 
     Pte W. Eden  Worc.R. France 1915
  Pte W. Farmer  R.A.S.C. Winchester 1918
    Pte R. Giles  Som.L.I. France 1918
    Pte A. Gwillam  Worc.R. France 1916
    Pte A. Hayward  Worc.R. France 1917
    Pte J. Hughes  Worc.R. France 1917
    Pte W. Hughes  Worc.R. France 1917
   Pte F. Philps  Durh.L.I. France 1918
  Pte J. Robbins  Worcs.R. Gallipoli 1915
       W. Smith  Worc.R. France 1915
      S. Weaver  Worc.R. France 1917
      Their name liveth for evermore

          Also in memory of the men
of this Parish who gave their lives in the war of
                1939 - 1945
      Gnr. H W Freeman R.A. England 1944
     Capt W H L Jacomb R.A. England 1940
      AC.2 W.G.Rastall RAF England 1944
    Sergt. R.R. Townsend  RAF England 1943
  Sergt. W.O.A. G.R. Taylor RAF North Sea 1941




Note: Ronald Taylor attended Worcester Grammar School 1933-39; his name is listed on the Grammar School Memorial





In the churchyard:

Four CWGC gravestones:

CAPTAIN W.H.L. JACOMB
ROYAL ARTILLERY
25TH APRIL 1940 AGE 24
R/405579 PRIVATE
W.B. FARMER
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
6TH AUGUST 1918

1577926 SERGEANT
R R TOWNSEND
AIR BOMBER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
25TH SEPTEMBER 1943 AGE 26
LORD I CAME IN RESPONSE
TO THY CALL TO ME
“MY SON, FOLLOW ME”

14377333 GUNNER
H.W. FREEMAN
ROYAL ARTILLERY
10TH MARCH 1944 AGE 19
NOT JUST TODAY
BUT EVERY DAY
IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER

A flower urn in front of H.W. Freeman’s grave:

  IN LOVING MEMORY OF
DRIVER H.W. FREEMAN R.A.
  KILLED MARCH 10 1944
     AGED 19 YEARS
  FROM GRAN AND FAMILY
  PEACE PERFECT PEACE

another, non-military grave in the churchyard has these inscriptions:


Reuben James who died of wounds in France 1st Sep 1918 aged 23

My dear husband James Giles who died 26th Feb 1917 aged 47

Last modified 31st October 2001