Hempsted War Memorial

Hempsted War MemorialThe War Memorial is located just inside the entrance to St. Swithun's Church graveyard, Hempsted, Near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, UK.

The entrance to the churchyard is at the corner of St. Swithun's Road and Rectory Lane.

Record taken May 1998. Photographs added November 2007

Inscriptions

1914-1918

1939-1945

Additional


Panel 1 (Front, facing entrance gate) 1914-1918

Hempsted World War 1 Memorial Inscriptions

To the glory of God and in loving memory of
the following men from this Parish and Llanthony
who made the supreme sacrifice
in the Great War 1914-1918

Ernest BEALE Charles HIERON
Frederick BEALE Leslie Y. LANE
Sidney BENNETT Alfred PRIDAY
Basil V. BRUTON Harold SPENCER
John DAVIES Harry WILLIAMS

Jas. WILLIAMS

Harold COOK Thomas MONK
Hubert GODDARD Sidney SMITH

William UZZELL

"Greater Love Hath No Man Than This"


Panel 2. 1939-1945

Hempsted World War 2 Memorial Inscriptions

In Grateful Remembrance
of those Who Gave Their Lives for Us
In the World War 1939-1945

Clive William CRITCHLEY
Peter Tom LANGSTON
Alan Thomas WOODMAN

" We Will Remember Them"


In addition, on gravestones in the churchyard are recorded the following:-

Carey E.M. CARTER
1st Royal Glos Hussars
Killed in Action at the Dardenelles
August 21st 1915 Aged 20 Years

John Harries DAVIES
Killed in Action on the Somme
July 20th 1916, Aged 22 Years

Alfred MERRETT
Killed in Action 1943
Aged 23 Years

M2/100610 Private
L.F. OVERTHROW
Royal Army Service Corps
14th January 1916. Aged 25

Lieutenant E.J. WIBBY
2/73rd Malabar Infantry
2nd March 1921. Aged 24

2199903 Sapper
J. WILLETTS
Royal Engineers
27th March 1942. Aged 54.