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St Matthias’ Church, Malvern Link Ordnance Survey reference: SO 783478 War Memorial

The oak screen at the west end of the Nave was provided from a fund set up in 1946 for the centenary of the consecration of the church. On one side of the screen, in the Link room, are two columns of names:

  1914-1918                   1939-1945
Sidney Bentley             Albert Andrews
Percy Bishop               John Archer
Alan Bowles                Donald Badsey
George Brodie              James Baskett
James Buston               Brian Blackwell
Walter Buston              George Bowers
Herbert Chant              Leslie Brown
Charles Chidgey            Arthur Church
Herbert Clarke             Charles Clarke Brown
Frederick Cole             Samuel Cole
Dudley Farr-Cox            John Crisp
Wilfred Crews              Ian Cumming
Sam Davies                 Alfred Davies
Geoffrey Day               Frances Dixon
Eric Dent                  Michael Edwards
Ronald Downes              Victor Edwards
Archie Garbutt             John Evans
Gordon Goodyear            Edward Forrester
George Griffiths           Cyril Gale
Arthur Grubb               Joscelyn Garnons Williams
Horace Hales               John Gregson
George Haughton            Alfred Grosvenor
Frank Hemming              John Heaton
Thomas Hickinbotham        William Heaton
Albert Hill                Frank Hickling
George Hill                Edward Holbech
Harry Hill                 Edward Hughes
Thomas Hill                Arthur Hunnabun
Arthur Jeynes              Wilfred Hunt
Thomas Jones               Benjamin James
John Kemp                  Anthony Jeacock
Gerald Lambert             Noel Jones
Herbert Lewis              Arthur Lee
Harold Madge               Reginald Lewis
Harold Maile               Frank Lindsay
William Marchant           Richard Maul
Albert Meredith            Stanley McPherson
Rudolph Michell            Christopher Paulley
William Mosley             Arthur Perkins
Oscar Needham              Oliver Pound
William Page               John Pouncett
Cyril Panter               Phyllis Reynolds
John Plummer               William Richards
Herbert Pratt              Ernest Short
Felix Preece               Ralph Smith
James Presdee              Reginald Smith
Richard Roan               William Smith
Cyril Roper                John Stephens
George Rumsey              Patrick Taylor
Norman Sayers              Harold Thomas
Walter Scott               Clarence Thompson
Reginald Sefton            Robert Tout
Gilbert Slater             Frederick Tudge
Frederick Smith            Geoffrey Twitty
John Smith                 Henry Waldwyn
Leonard Sparrey            Leonard Wells
Ronald Summers             Albert Whittaker
John Thomas                George Williams
Walter Underhill           Jonathan Wilson
Arthur Underwood           Donald Fudge 
Edgar Venner             --- Greater Love ---
Frederick Wareham       hath no man than this
Albert Willer                 that a man 
Harry Wood                lay down his life
Thomas Wood                for his friends



Notes:

  1. The three carved figures of the Rood in the church are a
    memorial to Geoffrey Day, son of the Rev. Archibald Day and Mrs Day.
    He was killed in the Great War, aged 28
  2. Eric Dent, Edgar Venner and Frederick Wareham (WW I) nad Arthur Church, Geoffrey Twitty (WW II) were old boys of Worcester Grammar school. Their names appear on the school memorial
    Geoffrey Twitty is also listed on the North Malvern memorial



    Last Modified 7 November 2000