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30.7.2005

ROWLANDS CASTLE

Stone monument just outside St John the Baptist churchyard in garden on road junction.

Front panel.

Erected
in
grateful memory
of the men of this district
whose names
are inscribed hereon
who gave their lives
in the Great War
1914 - 1919.

Right side panel.


J.H.Allen   Pte.  London Reg.

F.F.Boncey   1stC. P.O.  R.N.

J.J.Boncey   Pte.    R.M.L.I.

L.J.Boncey  Cpl. Royal Sussex Reg.

G.Bulbeck     Pte.    Hants.   ..

T.J.Clark      Art. Eng.   R.N.

W.Conduct     Pte.    Hants Reg.

G.T.Etherington  Pte. Royal Fus.

H.L.Geoghegan     Fleet Surgeon

E.C.Hutchings  Pte.Royal Sussex Reg.

G.Hutchings    Pte.   Hants     ..

H.Jacobs       Pte.    ..       ..

G.A.Johnson   Pte. Royal Sussex ..

J.Levett       Pte.   Hants     ..

T.Maynard       Pte.  Royal A.S.C.

Back panel.

Greater
love
hath no man
than this
that he lay
down
his life
for his friends.

Left side panel.


A.Mullins  Pte. Royal Sussex Reg.

T.F.Oliver   Pte.      Hants   ..

T.Piggott    Pte.       ..     ..

L.Robinson     Pte. Gloucester ..

F.S.Russell        Leading Seaman.

J.G.Selby       Pte.   Hants Reg.

A.J.F.Selby   Pte. Royal Welsh Fus.

S.A.Sheppard    C.P.O.   R.N.

W.Stock    Air Mechanic. Royal A.F.

F.T.Weeks      Pte. Gloucester Reg.

E.G.Wells    Rifleman. Rifle Brigade

G.A.Wells      Pte.  Somerset L.I.

S.West         Pte.    Hants Reg.

L.Woolmer White      Lieut.  K.D.G.

J.Yalden    Lce-Cpl.  Hants Reg.

Brass plaque on wall in St John the Baptist church.

To the Glory of God
and in loving memory of
Richard Henry Marriott. M.C.
Lieut. 1st King's Shropshire L.I.
killed in action near
Ginchy on the Somme,
September 18th 1916.
Aged 22 years.
"Whatever is-is best."

Commonwealth War Graves in St John the Baptist churchyard.

77568 3rd Air Mech.
Andrew William Stock
Royal Flying Corps
19th June 1917

Rock of ages cleft for me

925230 Private
W.R. Hutchings
28th Bn. Canadian Inf.
2nd February 1919 Aged 28.

Lost awhile
our treasured love
(w?)ain'd for ever safe above