Memorial Details

   These vestries

   were erected to the

   Glory of God

   and as a

   Memorial

   to the courage and self-sacrifice

   of the men connected with

   the Church who served their

   King and Country in the

   Great War

   enduring hardship and facing

   danger & death in the cause of

   Justice and Liberty

   --- and ---

   to perpetuate the honoured

   Memory

   of those who fell and whose

   names are recorded here.

   John H. Baillie      Richard Gordon

   Edward Boyle         Edmund Gordon

   Arthur Bigelon       Edward Gill

   Charles H. Banks     Fred Howden

   Albert Carr          Hamilton Moss

   George H. Carter     Herbert M. Marshall

   Robert Clarke        William J. Moore

   William Clarke       Matthew Stephenson   

   Harold Clarke        John G. Southern

   Fred Davison         Joseph P. Wright

   George Gray          John White

   James Grieveson      Joseph Kippling Watson

   “They were a wall unto us both

   by night and day. “

   1 Samuel 26.16

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The following has been extracted by Alan Vickers from 

Bethesda Record February, 1919, page 56.

   “A memorial Service for our brethren who have fallen 

in the Great War, 1914 – 1918, was conducted at Bethesda 

on the evening of Sunday, January 12th.  The Pastor took 

for his subject: “The Christian View of Death and Destiny,” 

based on 1, Cor. xv. : 6: “Of whom the greater part remain 

unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”  He confined 

his remarks under threefold headings as follows: 

1. The Christian View of Life;  

2. The Christian View of Death;  

3. The Christian view of destiny.  

On life, he showed that it will be one of perfect peace; 

of patient perseverance; of glad expectation.  

Of death, he emphasised that it was a change of abode 

like the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land: dying 

and death seldom being used in the Scriptures of Christians: 

the act and fact of death have been transformed by Christ.  

Destiny, the loved ones were consciously happy in the 

presence of the Lord.  During the service the choir also 

rendered the anthem: “The Lord shall wipe away Tears from 

off all Faces,” and Mr. Sydney E. Watson touchingly sang 

”God shall wipe away all Tears.”  We liked the idea of 

printing the order of service, with hymns and also the 

names of those who had fallen.”  

   The fourth page of the said order of service contained the following:-

   Members and Friends of Bethesda Free Chapel who

   have fallen in the Great War, 1914-1919.

   Members  

   John H. Baillie *       George Gray * 

   James Grieveson *       Hamilton  Moss * 

   Matthew Stephenson *    John G. Southern *

   Joseph P. Wright *      John White *

   Friends 

   William Randolph Allan    Edward Boyle *

   Arthur Bigelon *          Charles H. Banks *

   Albert Carr *             George Herbert Carter *

   Robert Clarke *           William Clarke * 

   Harold Clarke *           Fred Davison *

   Alfred Ewart              Arthur French

   Richard Gordon *          Edmund Gordon *

   Robert Glendenning        Edward Gill *

   Fred Howden *             Thomas Hepple

   Henry Hagel               George Jackson

   William Jennings          Robert Lamb

   Herbert M. Marshal *      William J. Moore *

   William Dowsey Magog      Frank McGarley

   Frank W.R. Nesbitt        Joseph Nelson 

   George Nelson             Henry Rich

   Robert Ross               Thomas Toshach

   John Edgar Taylor         Joseph Kippling Watson *

   Arthur Wagstaff           Reginald Wagstaff

   George Wilson 

   An asterisk beside the name shows those recorded on the 

   Great War, 1914 – 1919  Memorial Plaque.

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