Savernake: war memorial (Wiltshire)
Celtic cross with octagonal base; names are inscribed on the eight sides of the plinth, with the following inscribed below (clockwise):
TO THE GLORY OF GOD | AND IN MEMORY | OF THE ABOVE | MEN OF | THIS PARISH |WHO GAVE THEIR | LIVES IN THE | GREAT WAR
On the two steps below are the following inscriptions:
DECLARATION OF WAR AUG 4 1914 | ARMISTICE NOVEMBER 11 1918 | PEACE SIGNED JUNE 28 1919
LEST WE FORGET
The names:
William Robert Gosling -- Second Lieutenant William Robert Gosling, 2nd Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 21 March 1918, aged 25; awards: MM; name recorded on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France (Panel 64.); husband of Edith Gosling, of 33, Thistleland, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford, Berks.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1581567/GOSLING,%20WI...
Arthur William Hillier – Possibly: Lance Corporal A. W. Hillier (Service No: 17505), 1st Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment; died 4 October 1916; buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France (I. C. 46.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/524860/HILLIER,%20A%20W
William Knight
Thomas Martin
William Palmer
Allan Frederick Shepherd, R.A.M.C. – Private Allan Frederick Shepherd (Service No: 38295), 55th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps; died 12 October 1917, aged 24; buried in Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (IX. D. 20.); son of Elizabeth Ann Shepherd, of 5, Bedwyn Common, Hungerford, and the late Mr. D. J. Shepherd: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/98092/SHEPHERD,%20ALL...
Renford Earle Oswald Stroud, 8th Welsh Regt. – Private R. E. O. Stroud (Service No: 27139), 8th Bn., Welsh Regiment; died 6 September 1915; buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (H. 14.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109936/STROUD,%20R%20...
Henry Frank Whitbread, 5th Wilts Regt. – Corporal Henry Frank Whitbread (Service No: 9295), 5th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 10 August 1915, aged 29; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 156 to 158); son of Sydney and Hannah Whitbread, of Crabtree Cottages, Savernake Forest, Marlborough: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/684298/WHITBREAD,%20H...
Savernake: war memorial (Wiltshire)
Celtic cross with octagonal base; names are inscribed on the eight sides of the plinth, with the following inscribed below (clockwise):
TO THE GLORY OF GOD | AND IN MEMORY | OF THE ABOVE | MEN OF | THIS PARISH |WHO GAVE THEIR | LIVES IN THE | GREAT WAR
On the two steps below are the following inscriptions:
DECLARATION OF WAR AUG 4 1914 | ARMISTICE NOVEMBER 11 1918 | PEACE SIGNED JUNE 28 1919
LEST WE FORGET
The names:
William Robert Gosling -- Second Lieutenant William Robert Gosling, 2nd Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 21 March 1918, aged 25; awards: MM; name recorded on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France (Panel 64.); husband of Edith Gosling, of 33, Thistleland, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford, Berks.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1581567/GOSLING,%20WI...
Arthur William Hillier – Possibly: Lance Corporal A. W. Hillier (Service No: 17505), 1st Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment; died 4 October 1916; buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France (I. C. 46.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/524860/HILLIER,%20A%20W
William Knight
Thomas Martin
William Palmer
Allan Frederick Shepherd, R.A.M.C. – Private Allan Frederick Shepherd (Service No: 38295), 55th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps; died 12 October 1917, aged 24; buried in Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (IX. D. 20.); son of Elizabeth Ann Shepherd, of 5, Bedwyn Common, Hungerford, and the late Mr. D. J. Shepherd: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/98092/SHEPHERD,%20ALL...
Renford Earle Oswald Stroud, 8th Welsh Regt. – Private R. E. O. Stroud (Service No: 27139), 8th Bn., Welsh Regiment; died 6 September 1915; buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (H. 14.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109936/STROUD,%20R%20...
Henry Frank Whitbread, 5th Wilts Regt. – Corporal Henry Frank Whitbread (Service No: 9295), 5th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 10 August 1915, aged 29; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 156 to 158); son of Sydney and Hannah Whitbread, of Crabtree Cottages, Savernake Forest, Marlborough: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/684298/WHITBREAD,%20H...