Callow End

St. James' Chapel of Ease

(Parish of Powick)
Ordnance Survey reference: SO 835494
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A door of the chapel faces the road: above this door is a bronze sword, and three regimental crests carved into the stone, with these three memorials carved in the stone below the appropriate crest:

ALFRED WINSMORE HOOPER
COLONEL COMMANDANT
5TH 6TH BATT. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT.
DIED 15TH FEBRUARY 1916
CHARLES WINSMORE HOOPER
CAPTAIN 2ND BATTN
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
25TH SEPTEMBER 1915
GEOFFROY WILLIAM WINSMORE HOOPER O.B.E.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY H.M.S. HAWKINS
ACIDENTALLY KILLED AT HONG KONG
2ND JANUARY 1923

Carved in the stone of the door-arch are the words "LOVE NEVER DIES"

War Memorial

This is a cross in a small fenced enclosure by the Callow End club (about 10 yards from the chapel)

To the memory of those who fell in the Great war 1914-1918
J.C. Lattey Major R.F.A.
C.W. Hooper Captain H.L.I.
J.L. Slater Stkr. R.N.
J. Bairne Pte. Worcs.
W.R. Eacock Pte. Worcs.
S.J. Jones Pte. Worcs.
F.C. Morris Pte. Worcs.
A.W.J. Parton Pte. Worcs.
J. Watts Pte. Worcs.
F.B. Brooks Gnr R.F.A.
W.J. Underhill, M.G.C.
W.A. Brickell L\c Wars.
H.J. Brookes Pte Wars.
H.S. Coopey Pte Wars.
B. Charles Pte. Sh For.
C.W. Finch Sar. R.E.
H.R. Goodyear Pte. Berk.
C.S. Jenkins Pte. L. Fus.
A. Morris Pte. G. Gds

Also of the men who gave their lives in the 1939-45 War
Kite C.E. L.A.C RAF
Moran W.C. Sapr R.E.
Munn L.A. Cpl. 5th Batt. Sh. For.
Pardoe E.H. Dvr R.E.M.E.
Walters C.T. Dvr. R.A.S.C.

Note: W.A. Brickell was an old boy of Worcester Grammar School, and is listed on the School Memorial


Last modified 6 November 2000