Lower Swell

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Lower Swell Ordnance Survey reference: SP 174255 War Memorial

This picture of the memorial is taken from an old (ca. 1930s) postcard. THe memorial is a column by the roadside in the middle of the village, just down the hill from the church. On the four faces are the following inscriptions:

MCM XIV + MCM XIX MCMXXXIX + MXMXLV	IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF NETHER SWELL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WARS
MCM XIV + MCM XIX MCMXXXIX + MXMXLV	FRANCIS, JOHN R. HEDGES, GEORGE HOOKHAM, R. KNIGHT, CHARLES. LOCKEY, C. LOCKEY, S. ROBBINS, GEORGE. WILLIAMS, F.I. WILLIAMS L. HUMPHREY HODGKISS ERNEST VICTOR TEMPLE

St. Mary’s Church

Ordnance Survey reference: SP 174257

Roll of honour

Paper in a wooden frame:

         Rest Eternal                   and Light
       Grant unto them                perpetual shine
           O Lord                       upon them


                          Church of
                   St Mary's Netherswell
Your prayers are desired for the Souls of all Sailors
and Soldiers who have died while on Active Service
                         especially:

 John Richard Francis                Charles Knight
 died of wounds March 31            Killed in action
                   1915                    September 1917

Lionel Williams                    George Robins
died in hospital April 29          Killed in action 1917
                   1915            Robert Hookham Died in hospital
Rupert Ingles Chamberlayne         in France July 1918
Lost in HMS Hawke in the                             R.I.P.
North Sea October 1914             Christopher Lockey, Killed in
                                   action  October 1918
Fred Williams
Believed to have been              Stanley Lockey
Killed in action September         Died from the effects of
                    1916           wounds received in France
                                                       1920
George Hedges
         Killed in action
           25 October 1916

George Wilkins
     Killed in action April
                     1917

Note:
Rupert Chamberlayne was one of 525 men lost when HMS Hawke was torpedoed
on October 15th 1915. Information about this incident can be found on a page at http://www.geocities.com/abbertonroh/sawkins.htm: this page is about another casualty of the sinking, Claude Thamas Sawkins

There is a memorial to Rupert Chamberlayne, and a 19th century memorial to other military members of the Chamberlayne family in the church at Stow on the Wold

A cross in the churchyard:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES FREDERICK SARTORIS LIEUTENANT LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. ATTACHED 2ND BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS ELDEST SON OF LEONARD AND GERTRUDE SARTORIS KILLED IN ACTION AT THE DARDANELLES JUNE 24TH 1915, AGED 22 “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”       S. JOHN XV. 13 . HIS BODY RESTS AT GEOGEHANS BLUFF GULLY RAVINE, DARDANELLES R.I.P.

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Last modified 24 December 2001