Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 1939-45 St. Mary the Virgin

Ovingham

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 1939-45 St. Mary the Virgin (O11.03)

NEWMP Ref No.: O11.03

Parish: Ovingham

Original Location:

St. Mary the Virgin Church.

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Materials Used:

Paper in a wood frame.

Inscription:

1914-1918
(Names)
1939-1945
(Names)
Father, in Thy gracious keeping
Leave we now Thy servants sleeping.

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour.

The simple frame is made of strips of wood which over-extend at the corners, with a band of brass running along the middle of each strip and forming a flower at each corner.

The inscription is handwritten in black ink, the names being listed in two columns.

Names:

a. 20 full names.
b. 8 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Possibly the title wording “Roll of Honour” has now faded.

Sources:

Photos: J. Brown; P. Thirkell; Dorothy Hall

Source of quotation
 “Father, in Thy gracious keeping . . .” Hymn 325 The Church Hymnary

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Janet Brown;
Philip Thirkell;
Tony Harding

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Names Documents:

OVINGHAM, St. Mary the Virgin Church.

    

  

  1914 – 1918

  Joseph F. Appleby          Robert Scott

  Joseph J. Cairns           Charles Simpson

  Matthew Coulson            Edward Smith

  Edwin Forster              John U. Thompson

  Cecil Harrison             Charles Noel Turner

  Thomas W. Johnson          John Turner

  John Lisle                 Robert Urwin

  George Robson              Godfrey Vickers

  William Rogers             Henry Waugh

  Joseph Scott               Thomas J. Weddell

 

  1939 – 1945

  Laurence Caulfield         Cecil Johnson

  Roland Caulfield           Robert McVay

  J. Alan Gibbon             Charles Simpson

  John W. Heppell            Edward Smith

 

  Father, in Thy gracious keeping,

  Leave: we now Thy servants sleeping.

NamesO11.03

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