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28.12.2015

SIXPENNY HANDLEY

Stone cross on plinth just outside St Mary's churchyard.

Inscription on faces of plinth, starting with front one and going left clockwise.




To the Glory of God and in memory of 23 men of this parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918


1914

F. Weeks Wilts Regt
W. Phillips Wilts Regt



1915

H Card Dorset Regt
A New RE
E Hobbs Dorset Regt
S Hasluck Lt. 14 Sikhs

1916

J. Waters Dorset Yeo
F. Card Dorset Regt
M. Messer Wilts Regt
L. Thorne Dorset Regt
T. Latta Dorset Regt




(WW2 names on this panel)



1917

H. Harrison Dorset Regt
W. Rose Wilts Regt
M. Jesse Wilts Regt
S. Rose Dorset Regt


1917

T. New Dorset Regt
D. Lucas 2nd Canadian Regt
J. Chaldecott
H. Lucas Labour Corps


1918

J. Hall Dorset Regt
E. White Wilts Regt
W. Chaldecott KOYLI
G. Scott Dorset Regt


Hand written scroll in frame on pillar in St Mary's Church.

Roll of Honour
Greater love has no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends

Donald Bennett
Fred Card
Hector Card
Joseph Chaldecott
William Chaldecott
John Hall
Henry Harrison
Sidney Hasluck
Edward Hobbs
Maurice Jesse
Thomas Latta
D, H & W Lucas
George McLennen

Maurice Messer
Charles Neave
Arthur New
Tom New
William Phillips
Samson Rose
William Rose
George Scott
Bernard Thorne
Jack Waters
Fred Weeks
Ernest White