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13.9.2009

ELVETHAM

Stone cross in churchyard of St Mary's Church, inscription on panles on base plinth.
Part of inscription becoming difficult to read. (Church now redundant and used as a workshop for the hotel)

Front panel.

In
Memoriam
1914-1918

Right side panel.


Samuel Brown. Private 10th Hants Regt.
      Died at Salonika, January 9th 1919.

Mervyn Hugh Cobbe. Capt. R.N. H.M.S. Princess Irene.
      Killed in action, May 27th 1915.

William Frank Cook. Private 4th Hants Regt.
       Died in Mesopotamia, February 24th 1917.

James Coomber. Private 2nd Hants Regt.
      Died at Netley, January 21st 1917.

Herbert Eades. Private Royal West Surrey Regt.
       Killed in action Bethune, November 7th 1914.

Walter George Elson. Gunner 252 Siege Battery.
       Died of wounds, September 23rd 1917.

William James Grinham. Private 2nd Hants Regt.
       Killed in action Gallipoli, August 6th 1915.

Sidney Harwood. L/Corp. 1st Hants Regt.
       Died of wounds, February 5th 1918.

Back panel.


Grant them O Lord, eternal rest

and let light perpetual

shine upon them.

 

William Chapman. Sergt. 4th Hants Regt.
Killed in action, Mesopotamia, January 21st 1916.

Herbert Kedge. Private 4th Hants Regt.
Killed in action, Mesopotamia, January 21st 1916.

Left side panel.


R. Jeffreys. Commander R.N. H.M.S. Clan MacNaughton.
   Lost at sea with all hands on patrol duty
               in the North Atlantic, February 1915.

Kenneth Croft North. Lieut.
              4th Queen's Own Hussars.
  Killed in action 1st Battle of Ypres, October 31st 1914.

Charles Cornelius Northway.
             L/Corp. Royal West Surrey Regt.
 Killed in action Battle of Loos, September 25th 1915.

Launcelot St Vincent Rose. Major, R.E.
 Killed near Armentieres, November 28th 1914.

Maurice William Tovey. Signalman, Royal Navy.
 Sunk in Submarine E.4, August 15th 1916.

Frederick Roland Trimmer.
             Private 1/4th Gloucester Regt.
 Killed in action Bapaume, August 1918.

R. Verner. Commander R.N. H.M.S. Inflexible.
 Died of wounds, Battle of the Narrows,
                 Dardanelles, March 18th 1915.

White marble plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.
(Church now redundant and used as a workshop for the hotel)

Sacred to the memory of
Mervyn Hugh Cobbe
Captain Royal Navy
son of the late Lieut. General
Sir A.H. Cobbe K.C.B.
killed on board H.M.S. "Princess Irene"
May 27th 1915, Aged 42 years.
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil for Thou art with me."
Psalm XXIII.4.