Worcestershire | Martley | War Memorial
In the churchyard, a stone cross on a square base.
Inscriptions on three sides are:
| JAMES HILL JAMES NASH GEORGE NASH WILLIAM WILSON MARK S. COOPER ROBERT DOWDING WILLIAM S. GRUBB JAMES HOSKINS ISAAC THRELFELL F.C. GRUBB | TO THE PRAISE OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE 1939-1945 GILBERT J PRICE ARTHUR H S TAYLOR EDWARD L WALKER | CHARLES E. WILCOX ARTHUR J. DAVIS HENRY J. PAGE ARTHUR H. WILCOX PHILIP L. WEBB THOMAS WILLIS E. GEORGE WOODYATT AUGUSTUS J. ANDERSON JOSEPH PERKINS W. H. SMART |
Graves in the churchyard:
| 224457 PRIVATE P.L. WEBB WORCESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY 2ND NOVEMBER 1918 | 2315915 CORPORAL A.H.C. TAYLOR ROYAL SIGNALS 21ST SEPTEMBER 1941 AGE 37 A LIGHT IS GONE A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED A PLACE IS VACANT WHICH CAN NEVER BE FILLED |
Notes:
1.There is a discrepancy in the initials between the memorial
and the headstone for Arthur Taylor. I noticed this at the time of
transcription and double-checked this.
- George Nash and James Nash were ex-pupils of the King’s
School. Worcester. George died of wounds on the 29th June 1915 in Boulogne,
and was buried at Martley on the 3rd July, with a detachment of the school’s
OTC under Lieut. R.M.M. Beach Hicks lining the churchyard path. James Nash
joined the East Surreys in August 1914, and was killed on 2nd April (Good
Friday) 1915 in France. He is buried in the Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery,
Belgium. There were two fifth form prizes endowed at the King’s School in
their honour, the James Nash Classical Prize, and the George Nash Divinity
Prize. There is, apparently, a stained glass window in their memory in Martley
church that I appear to have missed…[sources: CWGC debt of honour register,
and “King’s School, Worcester 1541-1971” by Michael Craze, T.D., M.A. (1972)]
Last modified 26 December 1999