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13/4/2004

BENTWORTH

Stone cross in churchyard of St Mary's Church.
Inscription and names on panels/sides of cross.

First side.

Sacred
to the memory of the men of Bentworth
who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918
leaving to us
who pass where they passed
an undying example
of faithful and willing service

Second side.

James Andrews
Private The Hampshire Regt.

Roy Booker
Driver R.H.A.

Neville Elliott-Cooper
V.C. D.S.O. M.C.
Lt. Colonel The Royal Fusiliers

Walter Emery
Private The Hampshire Regt.

Third side.

Raymond Hayter
Private Nachine Gun Corps

Arthur Hopcraft
L.Corporal The Buffs

Victor Gordon-Ives
Lieut. The Coldstream Guards

Ernest Jewell
Private The Hampshire Regiment

Harry Neve
Private The Devonshire Regt.

Fourth side.

Thomas Ranson
L.corporal The Hampshire Regt.

Edwin Read
Gunner R.G.A.

Frederick Ridout
L.Corporal The London Scottish

Arthur Robinson
Private The Hampshire Regiment

Wilfred Whitcher
Private The Royal Berkshire Regt.

Inscriptions on war memorial framed on wall of St Mary's Church as inscriptions becoming unreadable on war memorial

ST MARY'S CHURCH BENTWORTH
WAR MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Sacred
to the men of Bentworth
who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918
leaving to us
who pass where they passed
an undying example
of faithfulness and willing service

(East Face)
Raymond Hayter
Private The Machine Gun Corps

Arthur Hopcraft
L.Corporal The Buffs

Victor Gordon-Ives
Lieutenant The Coldstream Guards

Ernest Jewell
Private The Hampshire Regiment

Harry Neve
Private The Devonshire Regt.

(Second World War inscriptions below the above)

Stone plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

To the Glory of God
and in memory of my husband
Gordon Maynard Gordon
Ives CB. VD. of Bentworth Hall &
Gaston Grange in this Parish, late
Coldstream Guards. Served in the
Crimean War. Colonel 36th Middlesex
Regt. Born 18th May 1837. Died 18th Sept 1907.
also his two Sons
Victor Maynard Gordon Ives
Lieut: Coldstream Guards. Born 26th
June 1890. Died at Le Soupir Farm
France 16th Sept 1914 of wounds
received at the Battle of the Aisne
and
Cecil Maynard Gordon Ives
Captain Scots Guards. Served in
France & Flanders 1914-17 and as A.D.C
to the Viceroy of India 1917-1919
Born 21st June 1888. Died 23rd July 1923
POST . TENEBRAS . LVX.