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25.6.1986

WHIPPINGHAM

Cavalry in St Mildred's churchyard with a tablet on the outside of the chuch wall behind.

On cavalry base tablet.

Greater love hath no man than this + that a man lay down his life for his friends

On tablet on outside church wall, names in centre, inscription on three sides.

Here are recorded the names of those from this parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1919

Prince Maurice of Battenburg. K.R.R.C
Graham Percival Shedden. R.A
Isaac Foss. - I.Wight Rifles
William Bush. Hampshire Regt
Frank Plumbley. .. .. .. ..
William Henry Mosdell. .. ..
John Henry Barrett. R.Sussex
John Blake. - Middlesex Regt
Joseph C. Grace. Canadian Corps
Clifford J. Tolman. R.F.Corps
Francis Thomas Cox. Royal Navy
Ernest Owen Johnson. .. ..
Arthur John Sheath. .. ..
Cecil Edward Wilkins. .. ..

Framed scroll on wall in St Mildred's Church.

+ 1914-1919 "There is no Death! What seems so is transition: This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." +

Prince Maurice of Battenburg. K.R.R.C
Graham Percival Shedden. R.A
Isaac Foss. I.Wight Rifles
William Bush. Hampshire Regt
Frank Plumbley. .. ..
William Henry Mosdell. .. ..
John Henry Barrett. Royal Sussex Regiment
Joseph C. Grace. Canadian Corps
Clifford J. Tolman. R.F.Corps
Francis Thomas Cox. R.N.
Ernest Owen Johnson. R.N.
Arthur John Sheath. R.N.
Cecil Edward Wilkins. R.N.

Window next to scroll in St Mildred's Church.

I am the light of the World. Into the tender & loving hands of the all mercival Saviour wecommend the souls of our brethren who from this parish responded to the call of duty, fought for the flag and died for their King and Country

Window next to scroll in St Mildred's Church.

In proud and loving memory of Graham Percival Shedden Captain R.G.A. 35th Heavy Battery 2nd Division who fell in the Great War in the first battle of Ypres at the Chateau of Hooge when H.Q. was shelled October 31st 1914 Aged 28. "Their name liveth for evermore"