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1993

WINCHESTER - WEST DOWNS SCHOOL

Stone plinth with bronze boy on top originally in grounds behind school building.

(no longer a school - 1996 - Memorial moved to Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust grounds, as sculpted by Peter Scott' mother, Peter Scott was a former pupil).

Original siting of the memorial at the school.

New position of memorial in Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust grounds.

HERE AM I
SEND ME

      1914       -       1918
J.F.C. Batten              A.H. Blacklock
A.H. Bowman               G.H. Broadhurst
A.C. Burnell           H.G. de Lisle Bush
R.C.F. Chichester            G.R.G. Child
H.P.C. Cotton          C. Cottrell-Dormer
C.M. Cottrell-Dormer          B.P.U. Duff
G.F. Farmiloe      G.R.A. Fetherstonhaugh
R.C. Fetherstonhaugh        V.F.S. French
I.C. Gascoigne                 R.C. Grant
R.P. Hankinson            M. Heaton Ellis
C.M. Hoare            G.R. Holland Martin
C. Mackeson                  J.M. McKenna
M.R.H. Morley                 W.R. Morton
P.F. Payne-Gallwey            G.W. Pigott
F.R. Seely                M.A. Somerville
H.O.D. Stowell               R.W. Strange
E.W. Tennant               G.C.S. Tennant
E.J. Watson Smyth             G. Yeatherd
W.R. Kirby                 Lionel Helbert

Stone obelisk set back from road on opposite side from old school.

Inscriptions on three panels

First panel

WEST
HILL
L H
WEST
DOWNS

second panel

In glorious
memory of
those who
gave their
lives for their
country
1914 - 1919

Third panel

Their sound
is gone out
into all lands
and their
words into
the ends of
the world PS XIX

Plaque originally in school chapel but sold on ebay December 2011.

In loving memory
of Gerald Henry
Broadhurst Lieut. Royal
Field Artillery who was at
West Downs 1901-05 Killed
in action near Ypres
Dulce et decorum
est pro patria
mori