Worcestershire | Offenham | War Memorial
A cross on a square base in the churchyard.
The front(as seen from the road) reads:
In memory of the Offenham Men
Who gave their lives
serving their country
During the great wars
1914-1919
1939-1945
Greater love hath no ,man than this
that a man lay down his life
for his friends 1st. John XV 13
Lest we forget
The left side:
Alfred Roland Andrews
Albert Brown
James Brown
Frank Canning
Cornelius Careless
William Careless Lc. Cpl.
John Halford
The right side:
James Hancock
Joseph Harltes Sergt.
Harry Hayward
George Jones Sergt.
Caleb Valentine March
William Henry Marshall
Walter Marshall M.M.
Joseph Porter
The back:
Edmund John Bowen Sergt.
Albert Cyril Bowen
James Malin
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Eric Gordon Drinkwater
Leslie John Gazey
William Edward Langston
William Thompson Sergt.
Ronald Cliford Thornton
The names on the rear of the memorial are confusing: one possibility is that
the upper three were added after the memorial had been erected, having
eventually succumbed to injuries from the 1914-1919 war, and the lower five
were casualties of the 1939-45 war, but this is just a theory.
Last modified 31 December 1999