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26.10.2016

STURMINSTER MARSHALL

Stone cross in Market Place on Village green, inscription on front face of plinth.

In proud and grateful memory
of the men of this parish
who gave their lives for
England's honour.

                        1915.

A. Christopher     S. White     A.J. Kent     A.F.Hart
            Sergt.
                       1917.

G.H. Henty          V.E. Marsh       H.C. Swyers

W.E. Vater          F.G. Pearce      V.F.Hoare

W.F. Ford           A.  Burt         A. Young


                       1918.

J.H. Shave          E.J. Ford        A. Rolls

E.C. Dummett, M.M.  G.A. Toogood     A.J. Plummer

T.F. Tracey, M.M.   S.J. White

Inscription on back face of plinth.

Praise be to God
for those Men and Women of
Sturminster Marshall
who faithfully served their King and Country In the Great War
1914-1919.

Framed photos of some of the men.

A.Burt  Edward Charles Dummett   Willie Edward Vater   Sidney James White

 

Arthur Young    Albert James Kent        William Frank Ford    Ernest Ford

 

Arthur Frank Hart     Off to the front     Stanley White   Albert F. Rolls
5th Dorsets             

A group of brass plaques on wall in St Mary's Church, listed individually below.

Brass plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

Walter Hugh Godsal D.S.O. M.C.
Major 2nd Batt. Durham Light Infantry
died of wounds at Amiens
March 26th 1918. Aged 35.
Also
Margaret Louisa Godsal
died from effects of overstrain in war work
Feb 6th 1917. Aged 24.

Brass plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

In memory of
Alfred Edmund Godsal D.S.O.
Commander R.N.
who was killed when in command
of H.M.S. Vundictive, as he placed her
as a Block ship in the 
Harbour of Ostend, May 10th 1918.
Aged 33 years.
Grandson of Charles J. Parke.

Brass plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

Arthur Lewis Kennaway
Lieutenant
1st Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry
reported missing
near Sulva Bay Gallipoli
August 21st 1915. Aged 33.

Brass plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

In memory of
W. Evelyn Parke
Lieutenant Durham
Light Infantry
killed in action in France
on 13th October 1914
Aged 23 years

Brass plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

John Aubrey Parke
Lieutenant
10th Batt. Durham Light Infy.
Roported missing at Loos
Sept. 25th 1915. Aged 23.