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The War Memorial

Photo of Unveiling Ceremony (courtesy Michelle Clark)

Brompton-on-Swale

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The Great War  (World War 1)

Inscription

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THIS CROSS IS ERECTED IN THANKFUL
REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOLLOWING WHO
MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE
GREAT EUROPEAN WAR.
1914 - 1918.

Sidney Best

3rd May 1915, Age 19

Private 1785, 4th Green Howards

Ernest Brown

28th Sep 1917, Age 19

Private 19394, 8th Green Howards

Robert R Brown

12th Feb 1916, Age 36

Private G7578, 9th Royal Sussex

John G. Hodgson

16th Sep 1916, Age 35

Private 34907, 9th Yorkshire Light Infantry

Cuthbert J. Pearce

4th Sep 1916, Age 22

2nd Lt, 117th Machine Gun Company

Richard W. Procter

31st May 1915, Age 23

Private 2516, 8th Manchesters

Walter Rhodes

21st April 1917, Age 22

Private 200195, 4th Green Howards

Arthur Richardson

16th Dec 1916, Age 24

Private 30446, 2nd Green Howards

Arthur Robinson

13th May 1917, Age 23

Sapper 160636, Royal Engineers

Robert Simpson

26th Oct 1917, Age 38

Private 204077, 10th Green Howards

William Smales

2nd Sep 1918, Age 29

Private 27701, 10th Lancashire Fusiliers

They Also Served

1914-18

Thomas W. Price
Charles A. Routledge

Fred E. Richardson

The Second World War

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Inscription

ALSO TO THOSE WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

Joseph W. Alderson

14th May 1943, Age 27

Sapper 200643
Royal Engineers

Lawrence Barr

3rd Dec 1944, Age 32

Leading Aircraftman 641413, RAF

Albert F. Cleaver

16th Jan 1944, Age 26

Corporal 4469886, Leicestershire Regiment

William Connelly

27th Oct 1941, Age 37

Gunner 1780834, 2nd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery

Walter Gibson

4th Feb 1944, Age 46

Station Master

Nancy Richardson

4th Feb 1944, Age 19

Railway Clerk

Robert R. Jewitt

22nd May 1940, Age 24

Private 7602266, RAOC

Harold Lyth

23rd April 1941, Age 34

Sapper 1864049
Royal Engineers

James H. Meechan

30th May 1940, Age 30

Driver 44256, Royal Army Service Corps

Reginald Taylor

15th May 1941, Age 27 

Private 4387696
1st Green Howards

Sidney J. Temple

21st May 1940, Age 30

Sergeant 7560229
7th Royal Tank Regiment

They Also Served

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