Ashchurch

War Memorial

Ordnance Survey reference: SO 927332

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This is a stone cross on a small fenced green by the roadside between Ashchurch Primary School and the Village Hall, almost opposite the drive to St Nicholas Church. On the base, on the right hand side, is carved what is presumably the name of the stonemasons: Fry, of Cheltenham

There are four bronze plaques on the base of this cross.
I think there were only two 1939-1945 dead, so their names were added to the second plaque:

Two plaques on the front:

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
THIS CROSS IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY
OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF THE FOLLOWING WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY


1914 - 1918
J. BERTRAM F. CARTLAND MAJOR 1ST WORCS.
THE HON. ALBERT H. MAITLAND MAJOR QNS. CAM. HIGH.
FREDERICK E NIXON ETHERSALL MAJOR R.A.
1939-1945
THOMAS J. JONES GDSM COLDSTREAM GUARDS
ALFRED P. LANE GFM R.E.M.E.


On the left hand side of the base:

1914 - 1918
WILLIAM A ATTWOOD 1ST HEREFORD
HAROLD GRIFFITHS 8TH GLOS.
CHARLES W. HOPTON SERGT. 7TH GLOS.
HAROLD HUTCHINGS R.A.S.C.
GEORGE MALLETT 2ND E. YORKS.
A CHARLES DAY R.E.
WILLIAM HALLING R.N. HMS MONMOUTH
CHARLES F. HUTCHINGS MM 2ND. LT. RGA
HENRY J. JONES 3RD WORCS.
FRANK STEEL SERGT. IST GLOS.
JOSEPH A TRAPP SERGT. 11TH MIDD.


On the right hand side of the base:

1914 -1918
JESSE NIND 7TH WORCS.
WILLIAM PAGE 5TH E LANCS.
JOHN POTTER 10TH GLOS.
ALLEN V SALLIS K SHROPS. L.I.
ARTHUR WITTS 1ST GLOS.
ERNEST V.S. NUNNEY 10TH GLOS.
W FREDERICK PARSON R.C.H.
LEONARD J. SALLIS MGC
LIONEL STICKLEY D. CORN. L.I.
CHARLES H. WOOLEY 2ND GLOS.

Notes:
1. Jesse Nind, listed above was from Eckington. He is also listed on the Eckington War Memorials, and there is a little more information about him there.
2. J. Bertram F. Cartland is also listed on the Pershore Abbey memorial. There is a memorial to him, his two sons (died WW II), and his wife Mary, in the churchyard of Tewkesbury abbey.

St Nicholas, Ashchurch

Ordnance Survey reference: SO 927333

In the church:

A brass plate:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CHARLES WILLIAM HOPTON
SERGEANT IN THE 7TH GLO'STER REGT
ONLY DEARLY LOVED SON OF JOHN C & ANNIE E HOPTON
OF COWFIELD FARM
WHO DIED ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP "AQUITAINE"
FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED AT THE DARDANELLES
AND WAS BURIED AT SEA
ON AUGUST 17TH 1915 AGED 24 YEARS
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN
LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

A tablet in pink/grey stone:
IN PROUD LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON
CHARLES KNOWLES STEWARD, D.S.O., M.C.
WHO DIED 1ST AUGUST 1929, AGED 37
AFTER SERVING IN THE GREAT WAR
WHERE HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED.
"THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE THE FROM ALL EVIL"
A TRIBUTE FROM HIS MOTHER

And a brass plate as memorial to an old soldier:
Major General
Edward Altay, C.B.
Royal Artillery
December 9th 1824. December 1 1895
buried at
La Sallaz Lausanne
Erected in loving memory
by his daughter Florence,
wife of
Colonel Henry Gillun-Webb
of Walton House
in this Parish

In the churchyard

Two CWGC headstones:
SECOND LIEUTENANT
C.F. HUTCHINGS MM
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
15TH JANUARY 1919
'FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT'
7595527 SGT.
R.A. HEDLEY
ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
7TH APRIL 1965 AGE 47
OUR LIFE TOGETHER
A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY
YOUR LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTER
R.I.P.
Memorials on two gravestones:
In
loving memory of
Joseph Halling
Who died 14 March 1968
aged 79 years
and his brother
William Halling
who lost his life in
a naval engagement
off Coronel
1st November 1914
aged 28 years
Rest In Peace
Sacred to the memory of
our dear mother
Fanny Whiting
died 23rd June 1963
aged 78 years
and of our father
Paul Thomas Bevan
Killed in action 1914
No Known Grave
He giveth his beloved sleep

Last modified 10 June 2000