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9.8.86

WEST MEON

Stone cross on octagonal base outside the church of St John the Evangelist.
Names on sides of base listed below anticlockwise.

 

1986                              2005

Side 1.

In memory of
those who fell
in the Great War
1914 - 1918

"For us the glorious
dead have striven
they battled that we
might be free."
"Their name liveth
for evermore."

Side 2.


Hon. G.H. Douglas-Pennant
Capt. Grenadier Guards.

Hon. charles Douglas-Pennant
Lieut. Coldstream Guards.

Frederick Buffey
L/Cpl. Warwick Regt.

Frederick Newell
Warwick Regt.

Edwin Smith
Leicester Regt.

Side 3.


Sidney Bond
Gloucester Regt.

Frank Smith
Sussex Regt.

Samuel Aslett
Hants Regt.

David Birch
Hants Regt.

Reginald B. Hadley
Lieut. Sth. Wales Bordrs.

Side 4.


David Collis
Hants Regt.

William Grant
Hants Regt.

Fred Gregory
Hants Regt.

Wilfred Gregory
Hants Regt.

Side 5.


William Kelly
Hants Regt.

John Triggs
Sergt. Hants Regt.

James Windebank
Hants Regt.

William Yates
C.S.M. Hants Regt.

Side 6.


Albert Kelly
Middlesex Regt.

Josiah Appleton
Rifle Brigade.

George Grant
Berkshire Regt.

Frederick Green
M.G.C.

Side 7.


Arthur Privett
London Regt.

William Lester
London Regt.

Alfred Tull
R.A.S.C.

Horace Simmonds
R.A.F.

Side 8.


Albert Toms
R.N.

Gilbert Dennis
9th Lancers.

Fred Ford
Sergt. R.G.A.

David Gedge
R.E.

Brass plaque on wall in St John the Evangelist Church.

Dedicated to
the memory of
these men of West Meon
who fell in the
Great War 1914 - 1918


Hon. George Douglas-Pennant     Capt.     Gren. Guards.

Hon. Charles Douglas-Pennant    Lt.       Cold. Guards.

Reginald B. Hadley              Lt.       S.W. Bords.

William Yates                   C/Sgt.    Hampshire Regt.

John Triggs                     Sgt.         ..      ..

Fred Ford                       Sgt.      R.G.A.

Fred Buffey                     L/Cpl.    R. Warwick Regt.

Albert Toms                     A.B.      R.N.

Gilbert Dennis                  Tpr.      9th Lancers

David Gedge                     Spr.      R.E.

Fred Newell                     Pte.      R. Warwick Regt.

Edwin Smith                     Pte.      Leicester Regt.

Sidney Bond                     Pte.      Gloster Regt.

Frank Smith                      ..       R. Sussex Regt.

Samuel Aslett                    ..       Hampshire Regt.

David Birch                      ..          ..      ..

David Collis                     ..          ..      ..

Fred Gregory                     ..          ..      ..

Wilfred Gregory                  ..          ..      ..

William Grant                    ..          ..      ..

William Kelly                    ..          ..      ..

James Windebank                  ..          ..      ..

George Grant                     ..       R. Berks. Regt.

Albert Kelly                     ..       Middlesex Regt.

Josiah Appleton                 Rfm.      Rifle Brigade

William Lester                  Pte.      London Regt.

Arthur Privett                   ..         ..    ..

Fred Green                       ..       M.G.C.

Alfred Tull                     Dr.       R.A.S.C.

Horace Simmonds                 A/C       R.A.F.

We will remember them