Hucclecote War Memorial Inscriptions
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The memorial is located at the corner of Hucclecote Rd. and Green
Lane in Hucclecote, Gloucestershire, England.
Listing and photograph taken in 2007.
THIS CROSS IS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO FROM THIS PARISH
GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
| Richard Ewart Bartlett | Leslie Stafford Herbert |
| Frederick C. Bircher | Leonard Langan |
| William E. Bircher | Willam J. Morris |
| Maurice F. Bircher | Henry Restall |
| William G. Bircher | John Thompson |
| Granville Murray-Browne | Arthur L. Walford |
| Orde Murray- Browne | Sidney B. Walford |
| Edward P. Critchley | Christopher J. Walker |
| George N. Gastrell | Christopher G. Warren |
| Reginald Bramley Hart | Frederick C. Mann |
ALSO TO THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945
| Frank Bartlett | John Griffiths |
| Harry Brown | Trevor Jones |
| Leslie Brown | Raymond C. Lane |
| Montague Drake | Frederick D.G. Leahy |
| Cuthbert W. Ellis | Kenneth B. Tyndall |
AND THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS PARISH
THROUGH ENEMY ACTION
| Harriet E. Barnes | Jean M. Henderson |
| Beatrice M. Henderson | Joyce E. Henderson |
| James Henderson | John C. Long |
Rhoda E. Wilkes |
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NOTES:
Frank Bartlett lived in a small cottage on The Green at the end of Green Lane. He was reported Missing, later confirmed Killed in Action with the Royal Marines during the landings on Walcheren Island in 1944. [Information supplied by Donald Brown]
Flight Engineer Sergeant Trevor Jones. Died in December 1942, aged 19. During a routine navigational training flight the aircraft encountered severe turbulence at 23,000 ft. above Carmarthenshire. He was injured whilst parachuting from the stricken aircraft. The other three aircrew bailed out and survived.
Enemy action in the Parish. The memorial includes a commemoration to seven people, including the HENDERSON family, who lost their lives when a bomb fell on a shop and houses in Hucclecote road on Easter Saturday, 4 April 1942. The area is near to the Royal Oak pub, and is now occupied by a small parade of shops.
The HENDERSON family consisted of James and Beatrice and their children, 3 years old Jean and 10 months old Joyce.