RETURN TO PLACE NAME B INDEX

13/4/2004

BENTWORTH

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

First side.

1939 - 1945
and in second dedication
to the memory of these others
who passing later also fell
leaving no less glorious name


Second side.

Cyril Frank Gibbs
A.C.1 R.A.F.

Victor Matthew Gordon-Ives
Lieut. Scots Guards

William George Grace
Gunner R.A.


Third side.

Clarence Herbert Hobbs
A.B. R.N.

Christopher John Darell Jeffreys M.V.O.
Captain The Grenadier Guards

Edward Lionel Musson D.S.O. M.C.
Colonel The Manchester Regt.


Fourth side.

Edwin Ernest Prior
Private The Hampshire Regt.

Guy L'Estrange Mansfield Sturges
Commander R.N.

William Barrington Tristram
Major The Welch 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

1939 - 1945
and in second dedication
to the memory of these others
who passing later also fell
leaving no less glorious name

(South Face)
Cyril Frank Gibbs
A.C.1 R.A.F.

Victor Matthew Gordon-Ives
Lieutenant The Scots Guards

William George Grace
Gunner R.A.

                    

(North Face)
Edwin Ernest Prior
Private The Hampshire Regt.

Guy L'Estrange Mansfield Sturges
Commander R.N.

William Barrington Tristram
Major The Welch Regt.

(East Face)
Clarence Herbert Hobbs
A.B. R.N.

Christopher John Darell Jeffreys M.V.O.
Captain The Grenadier Guards

Edward Lionel Musson D.S.O. M.C.
Colonel The Manchester Regt.


(Great War inscriptions above the above)



Stone plaque on wall in St Mary's Church.

In proud
and loving memory of
Christopher John Darell Jeffreys
Captain Grenadier Guards
Only son of George and Dorothy Jerffreys
killed in action near Furnes May 28th 1940