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14/8/2019

CROWCOMBE

Stone column on plinth on green near church, inscriptions on face of plinth.
Memorial was originally in the recreation ground.

Front face.

Erected
in gratitude
by the parishioners
to the glorious memory
of the men of
Crowcombe
who gave their lives
for King and Country
and in honour of those
who served in the Great War
1914 - 1918

Right side face.

      1914-1918

Edward Dinwiddy D.C.M.
   Cpl 1st Coldstream Guards.

Thomas Carew Baron Kesteven
   Capt. 1/1st Lins. Yeomanry

Herbert Griffith
    L/Cpl. R.A.M.C.

Stanley J Tancock
    5th Somerset L.I.

Walter Frank Baker
    1/24th London Regt.

William Merson
    8th Somerset L.I.

William Elias Bullock
    25th Rifle Brigade

Thomas Coles
    5th Dorset Regt.

John Stark
    6th Somerset L.I.

Frederick Charles Merson
    2/4th Hampshire Regt.

Charles Lewis Moore
    Lieut. R.N.

Back face.

Moved
to present site
by the parishioners
in grateful memory of the men and women of
Crowcombe
who served
in the 2nd World War
1939 - 1945
and in remembrance
of those who
did not return

Left side face.

(WW2 names)

Marble tablet on wall in the Church of the Holy Ghost.

1914     1918
  Thine O Lord                is the victory

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Leonard
Dinwiddy D.C.M
Cpl 1st Coldstream Gds.

Thomas Carew
Baron Kesteven
Capt. 1/1st Lincs.Yeomanry

Herbert Griffith
Lance Cpl. R.A.M.C

Stanley J. Tancock
5th Somerset Lt Infy

Walter
Frank Baker
1/24th London Regt.
    

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William Merson
8th Somerset Lt Infy

Thomas Coles
5th Dorset Regiment

John Stark
6th Somerset Lt Infy

William
Elias Bullock
25th Rifle Brigade

Frederick Charles
Merson M.M
2/4th Hampshire Regt.


St George

Brass plaque on marble on wall in Church of the Holy Ghost in side chapel.


Sacred to the memory of

Lieut. Charles Lewis Moore. R.N.
lost in Dubmarine A.E.1
while on patrol duty
off the Coast of New Guinea
about 14th September 1914
Aged 26
Younger son of Henry Moore Col. the King's Own.
Stepson of Geraldine Eleanor Moore.
By whom this memorial is erected
    

Thomas Carew Trollope
3rd Baron Kesteven
Captain 1/1 Lincolnshire Yeomanry
of Crowcombe Casewick and Carew
who died 5th Nov. 1915 in the French Military Hospital
Oran Algiers from wounds received during
the shelling of the Transport Mercian by a German
Submarine in the Mediterranean on 3rd Nov.
Aged 24

Pro Rege Pro Patria