leicester war memorials · 14773 ww1 tablet or plaque or board; for moat boys school 13 st martins...

Leicester War Memorials List of CWGC casualties in Welford Road Cemetery provided by The Friends of Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester: http://lrfhs.org.uk/wroadwar.htm More details for Welford Road Cemetery from CWGC: http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=41262&mode=1 Gilroes Cemetery, A50 contains 110 WW1 graves and 160 WW2 graves (not listed above). See CWGC website: http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2072859&mode=1 UKNIWM website, including link to search page: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.002 PMSA page featuring information and images on selected memorials: http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/EM/Region.htm

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1 Leicester Cathedral

37515 Wars of the Roses (1455-

1487)

SK 584 044 Near this site stood the / Church of the Greyfriars / where the body of Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England / was interred after his death, aged 32 / at the battle of Bosworth field / 22 August 1485 / Requiescat in Pace / This memorial was erected by the Richard III Society 1990

Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England

2 Welford Road Cemetery

14783 Battle of Waterloo (1815)

Gravestone In / remembrance of / John Winterton / who departed this life / Feb 16th 1870 / in the 74th year of his age. / He was severely wounded at / the battle of waterloo / and after lying three days / and two nights on the field / had his left leg amputated / at Brussels. / May he rest in peace.

John Winterton

3 Arch of Remembrance, Victoria Park

2225 WW1 SK 5957 0336; Listed Building (I) - 9/153B (Memorial); Registered Park or Garden (II). Large square monumental arch crowned by low dome designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Tall and wide openings to W and E, smaller and lower ones to N and S Smaller version of India Gate in Delhi. Completed in 1924.

(front face, over arch): MCM XIV MCMXIX / Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace (front face, on the piers): MCM XXXIX MCMXLV (left face): Remember in gratitude twelve thousand men / of this city and county / who fought and died for freedom. / Remember all who served and strove / and those who patiently endured (rear face): All they hoped for, all they had, they gave / to save mankind themselves they scorned to save (right face): I will not cease from mental fight / nor shall my sword sleep in my hand / till we have built Jerusalem / in England’s green and pleasant land

None Yes

4 St Nicholas Church

37591 WW1 SK 582 045; Roll of Honour ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH & PARISH / THE GREAT WAR 1914-18 / ROLL OF HONOUR / OFFICERS NCOS & MEN / [NAMES] / "THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIFE EVEN UNTO DEATH"

5 St Margaret’s Church

37590 WW1 SK 585 050; Pews In memory of the two hundred men of / this parish who died for their country in / the Great War


37588 WW2 SK 584 044; Tablet or plaque or board (...) / and Major Raymond Johnson German TD / Killed in action 11th September 1944 aged 36

Major Raymond Johnson German TD

7 Christchurch Combined Methodist and Baptist Church

37589 WW1 Names from Eric Orbell To the Glory of God / To perpetuate the memory of members / of this church who fell in the Great War / 1914 - 1918 / [names]/ "Greater love hath no man than this / that a man lay down his life for his friends"

George Herbert Cramp Carl Hugh Victor Johnson Percy Sharman Frederick George Todd

8 Leicester Constabulary Police Force HQ

Unknown Unknown http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Forces/Leicestershire/Leicestershire_Roll.htm - ?

9 Brice Memorial Hall, Queen’s Road

WW1 E-mail 8/12/2009 from CH - dedicated to Henry Brice by his parents. Contains plaque interior bearing list of names. Also plaque on exterior dedicated to Brice.

Interior plaque with metal wreath atop: This institute was erected / in loving memory of our son / Henry Copeland Brice / Lieutenant 4th Batt Leicestershire Regt / Died at Bailleul France / June 11 1915 Aged 21 / “Greater love hath no

Henry Copeland Brice / Lieutenant 4th Batt Leicestershire Regt

CH; LCC

http://lrfhs.org.uk/wroadwar.htm

http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=41262&mode=1


http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.002

http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/EM/Region.htm

http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Forces/Leicestershire/Leicestershire_Roll.htm






man than this, that / a man lay down his life for his friends” / January 1921 Francis and Margaret Brice

10 Donisthorpe Factory, Bath Lane

14770 WW1; WW2 Nowy headed white stone plaque with rearing animal in head and set on grey backboard. Small rectangular WW2 addition below. Info from DK and AL. As per AF – Mercury cutting 15/11/96 states plaque went for repair ten years prev. but was forgotten – Rededicated on Remembrance Sunday by Rector of Oadby, Rev. David Clark.

To honour the memory of / officers and men of / Donisthorpe & Company Ltd / who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / Name Regiment Where Killed / [names] / 1939-1945 / [names]

Lieut GE Heriot Middlesex Yeo Died in Cairo Hospital / (Director D & Co Ltd) Lieut CD Dixon Leicester Regt / Killed in Bazantine Le Petite Sergt W Hook Leicester Regt Killd Mt Kemmel Pte G Hook Royal Scots Killed Ypres Pte A Taylor Leicester Regt Killed Loos Pte W Bishop Leicester Regt Killed Loos Pte A Foster Leicester Regt Killed Ypres Pte J Seddon Leicester Regt Killed Vlamertinghe Pte E Love Leicester Regt Killed Vlamertinghe Pte H Deane Leicester Regt / Killed Hohenzollern Redoubt Pte R Spencer Northum Fus Died St Eloi Pte H Green Leicester Regt Killed Loos Pte S Wood Leicester Regt Killed Thiepval Pte S Taylor Leicester Regt Killed Bullecourt Pte H Garner 10th Durham LI Killed Polygon Wood Pte W Warwick RMLI / Sunk on Monitor in Mediterranean Tpr. E Williams Leicester Yeo Killed in Boyles Pte F Stevenson Leicester Regt Killed France Tpr E Riches 11th Hussars Killed Italy Sergt Air Gunner / Alan W Brown / RAF

DK; AL; AF


14771 WW1 Gravestone Private, 17007, 1 Bn Leicestershire Regiment 15/09/1916. Son of Esther Jane & the late Harry Brown of Leicester, KIA Somme, France. Thiepval Memorial.

Fred Brown http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/page35.htm

12 Moat Community College

14773 WW1 Tablet or Plaque or Board; for Moat Boys School

13 St Martins Collegiate Church

14769 WW1 Unknown type of memorial 59th (North Midland) Division (TE) / To the Glory of God / In memory of the dead / and to record the service / of the division in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / Ypres, 1917 Menin Road, Polygon Wood / Cambrai, 1917 St Quentin Forst battle / of Bapaume, 1918 Bailleuil First / Battle of Kemmel Albert, 1918 / (Regiments and Companys)

14 British Gas, Aylestone Road Depot

14760 WW1; WW2 Brass plaque with red and black enamelled letters and a red plastic surround (replaced oak surround). In reception of Customer Service Centre. Previously in District Office on Market Street but moved in 1977 when this was demolished

WW1 c.342; WW2 14

15 Unclear 14755 SK 580 040 - ‘Leicester Cathedral Bradgate Park’? - no detail, duplicate?

16 North Memorial Homes, Stoughton Road

14756 Duplicate of WMP0872?


37586 Everard Harrison / Captain RAMC / attached to the 1st/6th Battalion / Gloucester Regiment / Killed in action in France / April 18th 1917 aged 37 years / In loving remembrance

Everard Harrison / Captain RAMC


37585 WW2 Tablet or plaque or board To the memory of those from / St Margarets Works who gave / their lives in the World War 1939 – 1945 / [Names] / Their name liveth for evermore

19 Town Hall Square

2020 Boer War 2 (SA)

Wall with bronze panels bearing names, surmounted by three figures of

In stone, central top: Glory to God: Honour the dead / peace after

Directly below inscription: Officers / Brigadier General Sir EPR Woodgate CB KCMG /

AF

http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/page35.htm

http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/page35.htm




Grief, Peace and War victory

Brevet Major RB Blunt 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers / Captain Cortland Gordon Mackenzie Royal Artillery / Captain Price-Dent 2nd Devonshire Regiment / Captain HC Thorold The Leicestershire Regiment / Lieut WMP Hannah The Leicestershire Regiment / Lieut CP Russell The Leicestershire Regiment Five panels, left to right. 1st: The / Leicestershire / Regiment / QM Sergt: / A Johnson / Colour-Sergt: / T Clarke / Sergeants / WA Boulton / O Crowdell / G Hewitt / J Pike / WH Whitehead / Lance-Sergt: / WG Starkey / Corporals / J Bradshaw / JT Fletcher / A Hill / W Hutt / C Yates / Lance-Corporals / J Barratt / AE Dunkley / JA Fletcher / J Hallam / W Harlow / H Keys Below section: Leicestershire Regt / Pt EV Morris / Brabants Horse / Pt CH Paulson 2nd: W Smith / E Walsh / Privates / G Alchin / JA Arnold / W Ashton / H Austin / HCH Bailey / R Barson / E Bassett / J Bent / J Bingley / A Birchmore / H Booth / FJ Boyall / C Bradley / H Britland / T Brown / F Bullock / T Bunn / T Callaghan / W Capel / FWL Carder / J Carr / R Cartwright / J Cave / JR Chapman / ST Cheney / WJ Cheesley / J Cockerill / A Coles / H Collett / H Corbett / A Croll / C Darlow / T Dawson / JR Dix / JD Durrands / FE Edge / W Elkington / G Ellicock / J Fisher / WA Forbes / W Gilbert / R Glover / J Goode / E Griffin / F Hannibal / A Harriman / JR Hawkins / G Hazell / D Helps / J Hickey / AT Hill / JJ Hodsell / A Horsefield / G Hulse / J Jarvis / C Johnson / G Johnstone / J Kellam / G Kendall / J Kirk / R Kirkpatrick / JW Knight / JH Lamin / J Leader / S Lewin / T Lindsey / G Lord / H Lovell / J Lowe / TH Lyons / G Maddison / W Markham / H Marlow / G Martin / JC Martin / J Mason / N Mawbey / H Mellers / T Mitchell / J Moore / A Moulds / J Moule / G Neale / J Norman / S North / J Parker / AE Peasgood / C Porter / W Poultney / W Redmile / G Reynolds / JW Robinson / DH Russell / T Salter / J Sarson / J Sanders / E Seares / G Sharpe / R Shillcock / A Simpson / T Smith / WH Spizer / A Stanyon / A Sturgess / A Thomas / T Thwaites / J Tolley / W Townsend / JA Trigger / JT Tucker / W Vann / W Voyce / CP Vulliamy / JH Walker / S Walster / F Warner / GW Warren / JT Warsop / J Watkinson / A Watson / JW Wesley / L Weston / C Westwood / T Whitehead / T Widdowson / H Wildman / J Wilde / JT Wilford / W Wilson / W Woofendon / R Woolmer / St John’s / Ambulance / Brigade / Pt FH Cooper / 7th Co Imperial / Yeomanry / Reg. Sergt. Major / H Blaydon / Corporal / TG Taylor / Privates / AE Baker / W Berry / H Carryer / JW Davis / GR Gee / AW Hull / WE Kennison / JF Knight / T Mills / G O’Shea / AE Partridge / FJ Pegg / SG Record / NC Shelton / RH Stafford / A Tayleur / F Woolley / 65th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / QM Sergeant / AJ Roberts / WT Cockain / Privates / J Brooker / O Hall / G Harris / F Prentice / G Smith 3rd: J Smith / JT Turner / M Winks / 1st Dragoon / Guards / Pt R Howard / 3rd Dragoon / Guards / Pt W Robb / 5th Dragoon / Guards / Pt H Clarke / 6th Dragoon / Guards / Pt B Thirlby / 1st Dragoons / Pt G Hand / 6th Dragoons / Sergeant / A Hanwell / 10th Hussars / Pt TH Allen / 11th Hussars / Pt AA Lea / 12th Lancers / Sergeant / E Clee / Pt J Sedgley / 14th Hussars / Pt E Dobson / 15th Lancers / Sergeant / TH Hanney / 17th Lancers / Private / E Jones / H Moore / GW




Nichols / J Smith / 18th Hussars / Pt A Shrubsole / 19th Hussars / Lance Corporal / P Goodman / 39th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt J Rodgers / 41st Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt W Nicholson / 52nd Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt TP Pochin / 57th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt AC Hudson / 105th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt JA Lawton / 115th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt W Bailey / Royal Horse / Artillery / Driver / H Crane / Royal Field / Artillery / Batt. Sergt. Major / W Drinkwater / Bombardier / W Brownsword / Farrier Sergt. / J Retallack / Gunners / A Bates / F Copeland / H Mills / FH Woolley / A Wykes / J Humpage / A Oswin / H Taylor / Royal / Garrison / Artillery / Gunner / AE Harcourt / Royal / Engineers / Sappers / D Cooke / A Galpin / AJ Reeve / Grenadier / Guards / Privates / J Booth / W Foster / W Gregg / A Tyler / Coldstream / Guards / Privates / J Evans / H Hutchins / C Vincent 4th: Scots / Guards / Pt DD Stewart / The Royal / Scots / Corporal / JJ Clarke / Privates / E Cleaver / C Jacques / A Knight / The / Northumberland / Fusiliers / Colour Sergeant / T Fosberry / Pt R Cox / The Royal / Warwickshire / Regiment / Privates / J Bagley / R Clarke / R Howard / B O’Shea / The Norfolk / Regiment / Corporal / CA Sword / The / Lincolnshire / Regiment / Sergeant / JH Frudd / Pt A Sharman / The Somersetshire / Light Infantry / Pt AE Lock / The West / Yorkshire / Regiment / Lance-Sergeant / S Weston / Corporal / WH Barwell / Pt J Cotter / The East / Yorkshire / Regiment/ Pt J Macdonald / The Royal / Scots Fusiliers / Privates / F Houghton / W Walton / The East / Lancashire / Regiment / Privates / J Stiles / TH Hewitt / The East / Surrey / Regiment / Pt G Knight / The South / Staffordshire / Regiment / Lance Corporal / H Hanham / Pt J Palmer / The / Dorsetshire / Regiment / Pt J McNeil / The South / Lancashire / Regiment / Lance Corporal / T Smith / The Sherwood / Foresters / Lance Corporal / A Sansome / W Aldred / Privates / H Henderson / JH Foyser / J Turnbull / W Worrad / The / Northampton / shire Regiment / Privates / AE Barnsley / W Curtis / F Davis / A Jarvis / W Smith / The Royal / Berkshire / Regiment / Pt TH Walker / The Royal / West Kent / Regiment / Lance Corporal / CTS Beeson / The Yorkshire / Light Infantry / Privates / E Jackson / GE Tuson / The / Shropshire / Light Infantry / Pt HJE Hinton / The / Middlesex / Regiment / Pt JA Pikeman / The Kings / Royal Rifle / Corps / Lance Corporal / WR Riley / Privates / J Bell / G Burdett / GH Fletcher / F Laming / J Norton / H Towle / WE Richardson / The / Manchester / Regiment / Pt R Greaves / The North / Staffordshire / Regiment / Sergeant / J Gadsby / The York / And Lancaster / Regiment / Pt A Lee / The Durham / Light Infantry / Sergeants / A Gunton / W Sikes / The Gordon / Highlanders / Sergeant / G Harris / The Queen’s / Own Cameron / Highlanders / Pt T Lydall / The Rifle / Brigade / Privates / B Blake / J Egan / A Gibbon / W Jones / Army Service / Corps / Privates / G Brierley / W Sweet 5th: The Royal / Army Medical / Corps / Privates / HW Harrold / W Markley / BHH Tollington / The Army / Ordnance / Corps / Pt FC Reeves / The Scottish / Horse / Pt E Smith / The South / African / Constabulary / Privates / HE Forknall / JB Jacques / The British / South African / Police / Pt A Hazlerigg / Cape Medical / Staff / Pt TH Wollerton Below: 65th Compy Imperial / Yeomanry / Sergt F Payne / Pt G Weston

20 Leicester 37516 WW2 Book of Remembrance kept in wooden Leicester Normandy Veterans Association / WW2 ? No




Cathedral case with glass top Leicester And District Branch No 45 / [Names] 21 Leicester

Cathedral 37517 WW2 Framed photograph with associated

inscription "I'm trying to stick / whatever happens. If I don't come out of it just / rest content that I have / tried to do my job/ faithfully/ Vivian Redlich" The above words, rapidly pencilled on a scrap of paper / are the last words of a modern martyr. Soon after / writing them Vivian Redlich, a young Anglican / priest was taken by the Japanese from his / mission house in New Guinea and beheaded on a nearby / beach. The staff were killed and the mission destroyed / at the time of the feast of the Transfiguration 1942 / Vivian Redlich was a Leicestershire man his father being / Rector of Little Bowden where Vivian was brought up. / Vivian was trained at Chichester Theological College and / after a period in England served five years with the / brotherhood of St Andrew in Central Queensland / His term of duty completed, he offered himself for work / as a missionary in New Guinea where he quickly found / himself involved in the war with Japan / His farewell message is preserved in St Pauls Cathedral.

Vivian Redlich


37723 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / In / loving / memory / of / Thomas Harry Preston / 2nd Lt 6th North Staffs Regt / Killed in action September 30th 1918 / Enterred (sic) in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery/ Belgium, aged 23 years / Only / grandson / of the / above


37689 WW1 Addition to family gravestone .../ Also of Frank / younger son of the above / who fell in action at Ypres May 13th 1915 / Aged 21 years

Sheffield / Frank


37687 WW1 Addition to black marble family gravestone. Has winged figure standing on top of the stone. Grave ref. CD 0272

... / Also Ernest Harold KRR / Youngest beloved son of the above / Fell in action in France July 30th 1915 / aged 21 / They shall be mine said the Lord of Hosts / when I make up my jewels

Barwell / Ernest Harold KRR


37688 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CD 0314

In / affectionate remembrance / of / Frances Louise (Fanny) / the dearly beloved wife of / Arthur W Bruce / who died 12th June 1917 / aged 50 years / Also / John Curtis, youngest son / 2nd Lieut 34th Leicesters / Killed in action in France / 22nd March 1918 / aged 21 years / Also / Arthur William Bruce, / who died 19th Dec 1937 / in his 33rd year / Reunited

John Curtis


37519 WW2 Book of Remembrance kept in oak case with glazed top

Unknown Vivian B Redlich


37521 WW1 Oval white marble tablet with scroll effect borders and black lettering on a slate mount. Centre of bottom has coloured coat of arms.

Tablet: Killed in action / in Flanders 8th June 1917/ W Vaughan Sculthorpe / BA Oxon 2nd Lieutenant / London Regiment (Queens) / Aged 26 years and 1 month / Dearly loved / and only child of / Mr and Mrs Sculthorpe / Leicester / in loving remembrance On slate backboard: "You were our pride / we dreamed great things for you / God intervened and so the dream came true" / Father and mother

W Vaughan Sculthorpe / BA Oxon 2nd Lieutenant / London Regiment (Queens)


37581 WW1 Book of Remembrance kept in oak case with glass top. Small gilt carved figures surround case with small painted shields (emblems?) between figures.

To the Glory of God and in honoured / memory of the officers, warrant officers / non-commissioned officers and men from the / City and County of Leicester who fought / and fell in the Great War 1914-1918. This goldess / book containing a record of eleven thousand of / their names is here preserved as a / memorial of their valour / and sacrifice.

WW1 c.11,000





37582 WW2 Avenue of trees with dedicatory rough hewn polished granite block placed nearby. Inscription carved into top of stone.

This row of trees is planted / to the memory of those from St Margarets Works / who gave their lives in the World War 1939 - 1945 / [Names] / Their name liveth for evermore

WW2 ?


37584 WW1 Rectangular bronze plaque with laurel leaf border in relief, set on a downward sloping concrete base.

To the memory of those from / St Margarets works who gave / their lives in the great war 1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Greater love hath no man than this"

WW1 ?


37579 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised lettering and names in two columns. Decorative border and laurel wreath at top centre in relief.

1914 1918 / In honoured memory of the / employees of TH Downing & Co / Limited who with courage and / faith at their country's call / laid down their lives that we / who remain might live in freedom and peace / [names] / "Their name liveth for evermore"

WW1 25


37566 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised lettering and regimental badge in relief at top centre. Laurel garland in relief as border.

In loving memory of / Colonel William Mogg Rolph / (The Leicestershire Regt. 1861 - 1895) / He commanded the 1st Battalion in / Bermuda, Halifax NS and the West / Indies 1890 - 1894, commanded the / 17th Regimental District 1896 - 1899 / Born 11th July 1842 - died 10th July 1918

Colonel William Mogg Rolph


37564 Non-Combat Deaths

Nowy-headed bronze plaque with raised lettering and a carved decorative border of oak leaves and acorns mounted on wooden backing. Regimental badge in relief at top centre.

In memoriam / Lieut Colonel JGL Burnett / Commanding 1st Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment / Who died at sea on the 9th Septr 1904 and is buried at Aden / This tablet was erected to his memory by all ranks of the battalion which he commanded.

Lieut Colonel JGL Burnett



Nowy-headed bronze plaque with raised lettering and a relief border of laurel mounted on a wooden backboard. Regimental badge at top centre.

Sacred to the memory of / Major General George Tito Brice CB / Colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment / who died on the 21st September 1905 / this memorial was erected by past & present officers of this Regiment.

Major General George Tito Brice CB / Colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment

35 Brice Memorial Hall

14778 WW1 Bronze plaque with inscription in black lettering set within a carved wooden surround, which holds inscription in relief. Previously held at the Congregational Church on Queens Road - moved when sold.

To the Glory of God / In memory of / Members of Stafford Sunday Morning Class / who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names]

Percy Beck Herbert Crofts Percy Clifford Fred Luck George Jarvis Fred Jarvis Oscar Gait Joseph Lister Walter Neale Horace Crofts George Lines Reg Ockenden Ernest Peacock Walter Swan Arthur Tyres George Knight Horace Postlethwaite

36 Clarendon Park Congregational Church

14779 WW1 Bronze plaque with inscription in relief set into a marble surround. Plaque has flower in relief at each corner and a foliate pattern at either side of the last line of the main inscription.

To the glorious memory of the / following members and adherents / of this church who gave thier lives / in the Great War 1914 - 1918 / [Names]

WW1 24


37597 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UA 0017

… / In loving memory of Sgt Sydney Smith / (Rifle Brigade) GT Grandson of the above aged 20 years / Interred British Cemetery Wainville Sept 20th 1919

Sgt Sydney Smith / (Rifle Brigade) GT

38 Bishop Street Methodist Church

37598 WW1 Brass plaque with a decorative floral border including roses covering screw holes in each corner. Names supplied by E Orbell.

Mansfield St Mission / In loving & grateful / memory of the / heroes / associated with this mission / who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / Greater love hath no man than this / That a man lay down his life for his friends / [Names] / At rest

Tom Weston Jack Sawbridge Fred Lacey George Lacey George Grocan Harry Roper




Harry Shepherd Bert Wood John Spriggs George King Tom Chater Herbert Kenney Walter Hill Arthur Rylett


37599 Colonial India Addition to family gravestone ... / Also to the memory of / their eldest son / George Henry Quinn / who fell in action at Sarahser / India Nov 9th 1897 / aged 23 years / Peace perfect peace

George Henry Quinn



Three light stained glass window featuring saints with tracery lights.

To the memory of Lt Col Reader / In affectionate remembrance of Lt Col Frances Reader who departed this / life at Pieter Maritzberg, Natal on 10th November 1898 / This window was dedicated by officers and men past and present of the (--) Battalion Leicestershire regiment

Lt Col Frances Reader


37595 WW1 Addition to granite family gravestone. Grave ref. CD 0320

… / Lance Sergt Bernard Noel Sharp / Fourth Leicestershire Regiment / Younger son of the above / Killed in action in Belgium / April 7th 1915 aged 27 years

42 Uppingham Road Methodist Church

37608 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised ornamental border. Moved from All Saints Methodist Church on Curzon Street in 1998 when sold for redevelopment. Names provided by E Orbell.

To the Glory of God and / in grateful remembrance / of the men from this church / who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Their name liveth for evermore"

Clifford Willson Brant Herbert Leonard Jelley Leonard Ernest Marsh John Samuel Whitmore


37594 WW1 Plaque with associated Roll of Honour containing photographs. Moved from hall on Granby Street in 1920, which had been used as a school room between 1892 - 1919.

On Card: Temperance Hall Mission / Granby St 1892 - 1919 / The names of the roll above / once had faces too / here then are fading photographs / of just a few On Plaque: In memory of the men of / Temperance Hall Mission / who fell in the Great War / [Names]

P Aspital W Andrews F Clarke J Hickling G Hook H Makepeace A Massey S Radford A Smith AE Soames AH Jones C Javes J Watson G Simpkins A Warren AC Burdett C Stearn


37600 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque with inscription in relief

Erected by his brother officers of the CLB / to the memory of / Leslie Corah / Captain 4th Battn Leicestershire Regt / Killed in action at the Hohenzollern / Redoubt, October 13th 1915 / When he had trained others in the love of / God and country, he gave himself.

Leslie Corah / Captain 4th Battn Leicestershire Regt


37601 Crimean War (1853-1856)

Stone tablet with black lettering and pitched top with finials either side and brackets at base. Names in three columns and regimental badge carved at base. Further carvings of leaves along base border and columns carved at sides.

By the / officers / non-commissioned / officers / and privates / of the 17th (Leicestershire) / Regiment, / to the memory of their comrades / who died in the service of their / country during the / Crimean Campaign / AD 1854 to AD 1856 / [Names]

CW c.213


37606 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave in D section.

In loving memory of / John Otway Cave / who died March 18th 1898 / in the 76th year of his age / "at rest" / Also Martha Ann Cave / the beloved wife of the above / who died Dec 24th 1914 / aged 78 years / Peace perfect peace / Also Charles Otway Cave / Grandson of the

Charles Otway Cave




above / who died / serving his country in France / on Oct 17th 1914 / Aged 30 years / "Peace after victory"


37607 Burma (19th C)

Nowy-headed brass plaque with incised lettering and stone surround. Names in two columns with relief carving of leaves in top corners of stone surround. Crossed flags and crest of Leicestershire Regiment at top of plaque.

Sacred to the memory of the officers / non-commissioned officers and men / of the / 2nd Battalion (17th) Leicestershire Regt / who were killed in action and died in / Burma during 1888 and 1889 / [Names]

Burma 19C c.27


37626 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CD 0093.

In loving memory of / William James Shaw, / died 4th Decr 1931 - aged 67 years / Also of Annie, wife of the above / died 27th Jany 1939 - aged 74 years / Also Eustace William Leslie, / son of the above (1st/1st Leic Yeomanry) / missing at Ypres 13th May 1915 / aged 23 years

Shaw / Eustace William Leslie


37605 WW1 Bronze plaque with patterned border. Cast letter may have been gilded. Lots of info held from E Orbell.

To the Glory / of God / and in memory of those / connected with this / church who were / faithful unto death / and gave their lives / in the Great War / 1914 - 1919 / [names] / "Greater love hath no man than this"

Pte Ernest Baker Sgt Herbert Brown Pte John Brewin AB William Cheney AB Arthur Churchouse Pte Tom Churchouse Sec Lt W Kingsley Callard Pte H Cooper Pte William Carter Lieut Edwin A Elson Sgt WS Fox Sgt Walter Gladding Sgt Alfred Goddard Pte Tom Harriman Pte Fred Harriman Tpr Claud Herington Pte Fred W Jarvis AB Frank Lane Tpr Fred E Middleton Cpl Chris Sharpe Gunner Arthur Tester Capt John A Wakerley Pte William Weir


37604 WW1 Addition polished black granite family gravestone. Grave ref. UD 0410.

In loving memory of / Florence / the beloved wife of / Alfred Frederick Allen, / who departed this life / Oct 2nd 1914, / aged 45 years / A loving wife, mother and friend, / one of the best God could send / Also in tender loving memory of / George Frederick / son of the above / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt / who was reported missing Oct 13th 1915 / after the storming of the Hohenzollen Redoubt / aged 23 years / He answered the call, greater love hath no man / Peace perfect peace

Allen / George Frederick


37602 WW1 Bronze plaque. Moved from Methodist Church on Humberstone Road in 1984 when church demolished. Further info and names provided by E Orbell.

To the Glory of God / in loving memory of the members / of this church and school who / fell in the great war 1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Greater love hath no man than this / that a man lay down his life for his friends"

J Bowles A Braun T Churchouse A Churchouse J Hunt FF Horton AA Johns H Lovett TW Rowell


37603 WW1 Addition to polished black family gravestone. Grave reference CD 0118.

... / Also Corpl EC Matthews MM / 1st Irish Guards / who nobly fell in action 27th August 1918 aged 37 years / Interred at Mory Abbey France




53 Church of the Nativity, Cavendish Road

37625 WW1; WW2 Prayer desk with separate WW1 and WW2 brass plaques attached. Moved from Vernon Road in 1966 when church closed and merged with Cavendish Road congregation. Names provided by E Orbell.

To the / Glory of God / and in memory of the men / connected with this church/who were faithful unto death / and gave their lives / in the Great War 1914 - 1919 / [names] / "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" 1939 - 1945 / In sacred memory of Eric Simms RAF / Died prisoner of war May 25 1945 / greater love hath no man / 'Loving memories cannot die'

G Ashmore EE Bradock A Butler NH Capewell H Carter JH Grain H Houghton FH Jennings FEJ Peabody J Scotton EP Thacker Eric Simms RAF


37624 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UB 0029.

In / loving memory / of / Samuel Lennard, / born June 5th 1851 / died September 14th 1901, / also of / Samuel Frederic / younger son of Samuel & Annie Lennard, / Second Lieutenant 4th Leicestershire Regiment, / killed in action near Souchey, March 30th 1918/ aged 21 years / and of his brother / Edward Wood, / Second Lieutenant 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, / believed killed in action near Passchendale, / November 30th 1917, / aged 28 years / and of Annie, / widow of Samuel Lennard, / born April 21st 1863, / died august 18th 1939

Samuel Frederic / Lennard Lennard / Edward Wood



To the dear memory of / John Moore Thornton, / who died February 26th 1887, / in the 47th year of his age; / Sarah Ann / wife of the above / who died October 14th 1922, / in the 78th year of her age, / John Willey, / eldest son of the above / who died at Johannesburg, South Africa / June 5th 1889 / in the 25th year of his age, / Edward Reginald, / youngest son of the above / who died in infancy / "We cannot, lord, thy purpose see / but all is well that's done by thee"/ Capt SP Thornton / 11th battalion Leicestershire Regt / died of wounds in Bethune / Dec 5th 1916 aged 39 years

Capt SP Thornton / 11th battalion Leicestershire Regt



In / loving remembrance of / Francis John Moore / who died March 28th 19-- / aged 84 years / Also of their daughter / Emily Maria Moore, / who died June 15th 1911, / aged 22 years / also of their son / William Bowerman Moore, / killed in France Aug 7th 1917, / aged 34 years / Thy will be done

William Bowerman Moore

57 Natwest Bank 37612 WW1 National Provincial Bank Employees Union Plaque in bronze with laurel wreaths at top.

NPBE / A tribute / to the 2681 members / of the staff of this bank / who served in / the Great War / 1914-1918 / and in honoured memory of / the 415 who gave their / lives for their country

WW1 c.415



... / In proud and loving memory of / Francis Nathaniel Tarr / only son of the above / Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment (TF) / Killed in action near Ypres July 18th 1915 / aged 27 years

Francis Nathaniel Tarr


37592 WW1 Nowy-headed white marble tablet with incised lettering in black and a brown marble laurel wreath with ribbons inset into head.

In loving memory / of / Francis Clifford Blunt / 2nd. Lieut 4th Leicestershire Regt / who died Oct 14th 1915 / of wounds received in action on Oct 13th 1915 / aged 24 years / buried in the military cemetery at Chocques / Affectionate, pure and brave / Requiescat in pace

Francis Clifford Blunt

60 Clarendon Park Congregational Church

14780 WW1 Stained glass window with figure of Christ holding a lamp and a foliate border around the edge. Image of Bailleul (?) in lower left corner.

To the Glory of God & in loving memory of / Henry Copeland Brice / Lieut 4th Leicestershire / Regt Bailleul France / June 11 1915 / Dulce et decorum est / pro patria mori

Henry Copeland Brice / Lieut 4th Leicestershire / Regt


14782 WW1 Rough hewn granite wall with lead lettering on smooth granite scroll.

To the beloved memory of / William Porter, / who died August 1st 1887, / aged 28 years / 'In

Porter / Fred




hope of eternal life' / Also Ellen, beloved wife of the above / who died January 11th 1927, / aged 67 years / 'Into the dawn' beloved mother / Also Fred, son of the above, / who died in action in France, Sept 22nd 1917, aged 37 years / 'Thy will be done'


37615 20th Century Wars

Roll of Honour within oak case with glass top. Commemorates period between the wars.

Unknown 20C ?



… / Also private Josiah Hubbard / son of the above / and beloved husband of Nellie Hubbard / Killed in action in Italy June 15th 1918 / Buried in Magna Boschi British cemetery / aged 36 years

Josiah Hubbard


37621 WW1 Dedicated Book of Remembrance containing names within oak case with glass top, with associated wooden panelling listing battles. Case has tracery carving at front and contains a crucifix which was apparently saved from Ypres Cathedral.

To the Glory of God and in honoured memory of the officers / warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the / Leicestershire regiment who fell in the Great War 1914-1919 / This chapel of St George is dedicated as a memorial of their Valour and sacrifice.


37622 WW1 Addition to granite family headstone. Grave ref. CA 0024.

… / Also / Frederick John Ashwell / 2nd Batt the Kings Royal Rifle Corps / killed in action on the Aisne / 14th Sept 1914 / aged 26 years / Frank Elmit / 1st Rifle Brigade / Killed in action near Arras / 21st May 1917 aged 33 years

Frederick John Ashwell / 2nd Batt the Kings Royal Rifle Corps Frank Elmit / 1st Rifle Brigade

66 Church of the Nativity

37623 WW1 Stained glass single light window with rounded top. Centre has St George slaying dragon with border of crosses, Tudor roses and 8 regimental badges (Lincs Regt, Royal Artillery, Leics Regt (x2), Royal Flying Corps, Cheshire Regt, South Staffordshire Regt, Kings Own Scottish Borderers).

1914 – 1919 / St George / Their name liveth / For evermore

67 Methodist Church, Uppingham Road

37620 WW2 Wooden board in shape of a framed scroll with a carved ornamental leaf device above the text. Moved from the Methodist Church on Curzon Street in 1998 when the church was sold for redevelopment.

In honoured memory of / the men of this church who / made the supreme sacrifice / in the World War 1939 – 1945 / [Names] / "We will remember them"

WW2 4


37619 WW2 Book of Remembrance held in oak case with glass top.

Unknown WW2 ?

69 Methodist Church, Uppingham Road

37617 WW1 Framed and glazed wooden board. Moved from Highfields P Methodist Church in 1967 to Curzon Street, then to Uppingham Road in 1998 when Curzon Street closed.

Highfields PM church / In honour of the men from this / church and Sunday school / who served in the Great War 1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Endure hardness as a good soldier of / Jesus Christ"

E King H Beal E Brown H Cooper G Chaplin A Chamberlain C Copperwheat L James A Lamburn F Lord G Lord A Lovell H Mogford E Munton E Pollard H Parbery H Parr E Whitbread W Wood P Sewell W Sewell

70 Welford Road 37618 WW1 Addition to family gravestone with … / Also Eric Henry Janson Teasdale / Lieut Eric Henry Janson Teasdale / Lieut ASC




Cemetery rough hewn cross carved to mimic tree trunk on top. Grave ref. CA 1242.

ASC / beloved younger son of the above / who died on active service in France / January 21st 1917 aged 20 years / Also Edward George Teasdale / 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment / the beloved elder son of the above EH Teasdale


37686 WW2 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / my husband / Thomas Pitcairn Shearer / LRCPS Edin / Sied in his 78th year 1936 / Lt Col GP Shearer, RE / younger son of the above / Killed on active service / Mar 28th 1941/ Elands Bay, South Africa / aged 33 years / Grace Arrivee Shearer / Beloved wife of / Thomas / died January 19th 1949 / aged 79 years


37685 WW1 Addition to family gravestone ... / Harold Bemrose Turner / Died of wounds received in action in France / interred St Severs Cemetery Rouen January 3rd 1892 - September 5th 1918 / ...

Harold Bemrose Turner


37631 WW1 Addition to pink granite family gravestone. Grave ref. CD 0122.

... / William Albert Ferguson / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment / who died of wounds in France on 15th May 1917 / Buried in Noeusc-les-Mines aged 29 / Though dead yet speaketh

William Albert Ferguson / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment


37632 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in form of a grey marble Latin cross on four-stepped base. Grave ref. CD 0104.

... / Also / Stanley / their 5th son / born Sept 12th 1887 / Killed in action / Jan 12th 1918 / Greater love hath no man

Lea / Stanley



Brass plaque on wooden mount with raised lettering and regimental badge in relief at top centre.

Erected by / his brother officers / in memory of Captain HS Logan / the Leicestershire Regiment / who died on 9th May 1908 / of wounds received in action / whilst commanding / a detachment of / Soudanese troops / near Mesellamia, Soudan / on 1st May 1908

Captain HS Logan / the Leicestershire Regiment



Pink marble tablet with black marble surrounds and carved inscriptions. UKNIWM record does not mention window in description.

To the Glory of God and in memory of the officers, non-commisioned officers and men of the Leicestershire Regiment who were killed in action / or died of wounds of disease in the South African war 1899-1902. This window and tablet is dedicated by the four battalions of the Regiment

130

77 Church of the Nativity

37629 WW2 Stone carved figure of St Michael holding flaming sword and scales and with gold wings and silver armour, mounted on wall on wooden surround with brass plaque beneath. Moved from St James Church in 1980 when it merged with Cavendish Road church.

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of / Gunner Major Cooper RA / A faithful and devoted server / at this church who died in / a Japanese prisoner of war camp June 10th 1942 / Requiescat in pace / Given by the congregation

Gunner Major Cooper RA



... / Norman Arthur Parker / Killed in action 13th Oct 1915 aged 19 years

Norman Arthur Parker


37628 WW1 Addition to grey slate family headstone. Grave ref. CA 1275.

In memoriam / Stockdale Harrison / Architect died Nov / 10th 1914 aged 69 years / Marianne the wife / of the above died / Dec 12th 1923 aged 75 / Gregaory, the 4th son / died Oct 20th 1889, / aged 6 years / Margaret infant / died Oct 5th 1891 / Everard Harrison / Capt RAMC (T) / 3rd son / Killed in action in France / Apr 18th 1917 aged 37

Everard Harrison / Capt RAMC (T)


37635 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in form of Aberdeen granite obelisk. Grave ref. CA 0010.

... / Also to the dear memory of / Kenneth Hugh Pegg / Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment / younger son of the above / who was killed near / Orah Mesopotamia / on February 22nd 1916 / aged 24 years / ...

Kenneth Hugh Pegg

81 University of Leicester

37636 WW2 Wooden bench with dedicatory plaque In memory of former students of University College Leicester / who served in World War II and forfeited their lives. / Ut vitam habeant /

WW2 6




[names] 82 Welford Road

Cemetery 37642 WW1 Addition to family gravestone.

Grave ref. UD 0023. … / Also Capt Arthur John Wakerley / Dearly loved only son of Arthur & BE Wakerley / Killed in action near Lens, France 8 June 1917 / Aged 23 years interred in Loos British Cemetery / A good soldier of Jesus Christ

Capt Arthur John Wakerley


37644 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UA 0482.

John Maurice Legge / 1st Sherwood Foresters / Killed in action Suvla Bay Gallipoli Aug 9 1915 / Aged 26 years

John Maurice Legge / 1st Sherwood Foresters


37645 WW2 Brass plaque with regimental crest at top.

In memory of / Major / George Guy Barry / Anderson / 2nd BN / Leicestershire Regt / Killed in action / Crete 23rd May 1941

Major / George Guy Barry / Anderson / 2nd BN / Leicestershire Regt


37640 WW2 Brass plaque with regimental crest at top.

In memory of / Major / Arthur / Geoffrey / Peter Withington / 2nd Battalion Leicestershire / Regiment / Killed in action / Enfidaville / Tunisia 5th May 1943 / aged 35

Major / Arthur / Geoffrey / Peter Withington / 2nd Battalion Leicestershire / Regiment


37639 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UD 0103.

In loving memory of / Harry Gustavus Fairall / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment / The beloved son of / Charles Harry and Fanny Fairall / who died November 4th 1918 / Aged 24 years / "Duty nobly done" / Also / Fanny / beloved mother of the above / who died Oct 1st 1944 / aged 70 years / Also Charles Harry Fairall / beloved husband of the above / who died January 7th 1950

Harry Gustavus Fairall / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment

87 University of Leicester

37637 WW1 Hall or Institute, Fielding Johnson Building

To commemorate the following / who fell in the Great War of 1914-1918 / Relatives and friends made gifts to this college / [names] / Ut vitam habeant / Mrs Fanny Henrietta Knox Teasdale bequeathed one / moiety of her residuary estate to this college in / memory of her two sons who were killed in the / Great War of 1914-1918 Private Edward George Teasdale / and Lieutenant Eric Henry Jonson Teasdale

Private Edward George Teasdale Lieutenant Eric Henry Jonson Teasdale

88 Great Hall, Charnwood Street School

37638 WW1; WW2 Copper panel with raised lettering in polished copper and dividing columns in oxidised copper. Medallion at top featuring St George and the Dragon.

In memoriam / of those from Charnwood St / Council School who gave their / lives in the Great War / [names] / Those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten / Managers teachers old scholars and friends 1923 / 1939-1945 / [names]

WW1 60; WW2 5


37648 WW1 Brass plaque with regimental crest at top

To the Glory of God / and in loving memory / of / Herbert Stoney Smith / Lt Colonel commanding 1st Battalion / the 17th Leicestershire Regiment/ who was killed in action / Poperinghe October 22nd 1915 / aged 47 years / Erected by his widow

Herbert Stoney Smith / Lt Colonel commanding 1st Battalion / the 17th Leicestershire Regiment


37668 WW2 Three light stained glass window featuring St George slaying the dragon and the emblem of the Leicestershire Regiment. Includes list of regimental campaigns and decorative borders in left and right lights. Inscription at bottom. Tracery lights also include shields.

Central light: In Memory of / the officers / Warrant Officers / non-commissioned / officers & men who / gave their lives for / their country / 1939-1945 Left and right lights: [lists of campaigns]


37653 WW1 Addition to family gravestone of limestone. Grave ref. CC 0022.

… / Also of 2nd Lieut Frank Woollerton MC KOYLI / Beloved son of Richard & Annie Woollerton / who was killed in France Oct 3rd 1918 in his 25th year / Come unto me all ye that are weary and I will give you rest

2nd Lieut Frank Woollerton MC KOYLI


37654 WW1 Addition of family gravestone of granite. Grave ref. CA 10047.

… / To the dear memory of / JB Billston (Bert) / Grandson of the above W & SV Billson / Killed in Egypt February 12th 1917 / aged 24 years / He did his duty

JB Billston (Bert)

93 Welford Road 37655 Boer War 2 Addition to family gravestone. William Henry Whitehead / who died at Stander




Cemetery (SA) Grave ref. CB 0071. S Africa / January 4th 1902 / aged 21 / From the service of his country / in the flower of his manhood / he passed to God



... / Also of 2nd Lieut GW Victor Hughes / KOYLI / Beloved son of John H and Olive M Hughes / Killed in France No(---) 1917 aged 19 years

2nd Lieut GW Victor Hughes / KOYLI


37651 Afghanistan (19th C)

Wall mounted brass plaque with incised lettering and border of servicemen in uniform in relief.

In memory of the officers and soldiers / of 1st Battalion of the Leicestershire Regt / who lost their lives in / the Afghanistan campaign 1878 - 1879 / [names]

Afghanistan (19th C) 48


37627 WW1 Large stained glass window with five main lights and additional tracery lights above and small rose window at top.

Dedicated to the officer / warrant officers / non-commissioned officers and men of the / Leicestershire Regiment who fell in the Great War 1914-1919


37650 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CC 0033.

… / Also of / Paul Meredith Steeds / Killed in action in Flanders Oct 12th 1917 / aged 23 years

Paul Meredith Steeds


37656 Korea Brass plaque with relief border of laurel wreath and emblems at base of United Nations and at top of Leicestershire Regiment mounted on wooden panelling.

Royal Leicestershire Regiment / Roll of Honour / of those who lost their lives / during the campaign in Korea / 1950-1952 / [names] / Also killed serving with this regiment

Korea 52


37657 WW1 Addition to family gravestone of granite. Grave ref. CMA 0821.

… / Also in loving memory of / Private WE Herbert Willson / aged 24 years / killed in action April 29th 1917 / buried in Loos cemetery


37665 WW1 Two very large gilt candlesticks with carved design on shaft and inscription around base.

In grateful memory of Peggy Stevenson YMCA Croix de Guerre avec Palme who died for England at Etaples May 30 1918

Peggy Stevenson YMCA Croix de Guerre avec Palme


37666 WW1 Addition to black marble gravestone. Grave ref. UN 2315.

… / Also Private WT Jones / Killed in action August 14th 1916 / Interred Arras Military Cemetery

Private WT Jones


37667 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UH 0059.

Sacred to the memory of / Lieutenant R Scott-Green / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt / Fell at the Hohenzollen Redoubt / Oct 13th 1915 aged 20 / "Dulce et decorum est / pro patria mori"

Lieutenant R Scott-Green / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt


37664 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UC 0172.

… / Also of / James Clive Ellis / 2nd Lieut Tank Corps only son of / James Bancroft Ellis who was / taken prisoner and died of wounds in a German field hospital April 21st 1918 / aged 19 years 9 months

James Clive Ellis / 2nd Lieut Tank Corps


37663 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UB 0812.

… / In loving memory of / Pte Cecil Calvert KLR / Grandson of the above / Killed in France June 11th 1918 / aged 19 years / "Loved by all that knew him"

Pte Cecil Calvert KLR

105 Castle Gardens 37661 Wars of the Roses (1455-

1487)

Bronze figure of Richard III on roughly cut stone plinth set on two tiered base.

Side 1: Richard III / King of England / 1483-1485 Side 2: Killed Bosworth / 22nd August 1485 / Piteously slain fighting manfully / In the thickest press of his enemies / Buried in Leicester Side 3: Born Fotheringay / A good lawmaker for the Ease and / Solace of the common people / 2nd October 1452 Side 4: This statue by James Butler RA / Is a gift to the city of Leicester / From the members of the Richard III society / And others throughout the world / Patron of the appeal fund / His Grace the Duke of Rutland / Unveiled 31st July 1980 by / HR Princess Alice / Duchess of Gloucester / On behalf of HRH the Duke of Gloucester

Richard III / King of England / 1483-1485


37662 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in granite. Grave ref. E 1802.

… / Also of / Gilbert Frederick Shelton / Youngest son of the above / who died Sept 23rd 1918 / of wounds received in action / on that day in France / aged 20 years

Gilbert Frederick Shelton



Pte Francis Richards / 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers / Killed in action France Sept 29th 1916 aged 41 years / Nobly lived and nobly died

Pte Francis Richards / 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers





37669 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. TA 2607.

… / Also of Harry Hughes (Royal Engineers) / only son of the above / and beloved husband of / Edith M Girdlestone

Harry Hughes (Royal Engineers)


37672 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UT 1205

… / Also Pte George Samuel Hubbard / 1st Leic Regt / Killed in action near Delville Wood / Sept 15th 1916 / aged 26 years

Pte George Samuel Hubbard / 1st Leic Regt


37673 WW1 Nowy-headed bronze plaque with raised lettering and crest of Leicestershire Regiment at top centre. Relief border of laurel garland.

In loving memory of / Capt Charles Colwyn Rolph / (2nd Leicestershire Regiment) / Killed in action at Givenchy, France / 15th October 1915 - aged 27

Capt Charles Colwyn Rolph / (2nd Leicestershire Regiment)


37674 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in pink granite. Grave in section UT.

Also of / Sidney Howard / their son / Killed in action / Sep 25 1916 / Aged 20 years

Sidney Howard



In loving memory / of / Florence Nichols / who died 1st Nov 1929 / aged 63 years / Walter Evans Clark Nichols / husband of the above / who died 4th Feb 1953 / aged 80 years / also Evelyn Beatrice Nichols/ beloved second wife of WEC Nichols / born Tralee 4th Aug 1894 / died Wigston Magna 20th Oct 1973 / A life devoted to her family / also Pte IW Nichols / killed 19th July 1917 buried Ramscappelle

Pte IW Nichols


37696 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CD0066.

… / In proud and loving memory of / Francis Nathaniel Tarr / only son of the above / 1st/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment / Killed in action Ypres July 18th 1915 aged 27 years

Francis Nathaniel Tarr


37721 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CF 1272.

In loving memory of / John Popple / who passed peacefully away March 21st 1901 / aged 49 years / also of/ Caroline / the beloved wife of the above / who passed peacefully away April 5th 1900 / aged 43 years / Also of / Samuel Bishop / fourth son of the above / who departed this life December 6th 1910 / aged 23 years / Also of / Pte Alfred Joseph Healy / third son of the above who was killed in action / July 14th 1916 aged 35 years / interred in France / …

Pte Alfred Joseph Healy


37722 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. D480.

… / Also Pte Shirley Bray son of the above killed in action Sept 25th 1915 / aged 22 years

Pte Shirley Bray


37675 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. U 0126.

Claude FW Herington / 2/1 Leicestershire Yeomanry / Born March 26th 1894 / died August 25th 1915 / Loved dearly loved

Claude FW Herington / 2/1 Leicestershire Yeomanry

117 Peace Walk, Victoria Park

37676 Spanish Civil War (1936-

1939)

Low granite polished block set into ground with gilt lettering. Gilt spray of leaves on each side of inscription.

To the honour and memory / of the Leicester members of the / international brigades / who died fighting fascism in Spain / 1936-1939 / [names] / "No pasaram"

None



Low granite polished block set into ground with gilt lettering.

British Nuclear Tests / Veterans Association / dedicated to the memory of / test veterans who have died since / the British tests at / Monte Bello, Emufield, Maralinga / Malden island, Christmas island / "all we seek is justice" / 27th November 1993

None


37682 WW1 Addition to family gravestone (inscription on kerb stone).

Sgt Fred G Tunnicliffe Killed in action 23rd April 1917

Sgt Fred G Tunnicliffe


37684 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Cpl George Herbert Thacker / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt / who died November 7th 1918 / aged 22 years

Cpl George Herbert Thacker / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt


37680 Non-Specific Regimental

Various regimental flags - associated with 122?

Unknown Unknown



Memorial chapel with dedication on paper within frame. Contains 123?

The Regimental Chapel / The Royal Leicestershire Regiment / In 1897, officers of the Leicestershire Regiment asked the reverend canon / SIW Sanders LLD, Vicar of St Martins Church, now the cathedral for "a / regimental corner". He readily agreed and gave the

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Regiment / the Chapel dedicated to St George, the warrior patron saint of England / In this chapel are collected not only many of its memorials but also, / hanging round the walls, many of the colours carried by the Regiment over / the centuries / The regiment traces its origin back to 1688 when it was raised. It became / the 17th Foot in 1713 and the Leicestershire Regiment in 1782 / In recognition of distinguished service in every major theatre in World War II / His Majesty King George VI in 1946 approved that the Regiment should / become "the Royal Leicestershire Regiment" / On 23rd June 1975, the last colours of the 1st Battalion of the Royal / Leicestershire Regiment were laid up and can now be seen hanging over the / altar of the chapel


37677 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UN 2375.

... / Also to the memory of / Flt Lieut John Outram Davies RAF / Gt-grandson of the above / who gave his life in action over / Karlsbruke, Germany on the night of / February 2nd 1945 / aged 24 years

Flt Lieut John Outram Davies RAF


37678 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CB 0033.

... / Also of / Captain / GCG Taylor MC / The Leicestershire Regiment / Only son of / Colonel and Mrs HW Taylor / who was killed in action in Crete / on 1st June 1941/ "Oh Graham, my son my son"

Captain / GCG Taylor MC / The Leicestershire Regiment


37720 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Also Lieut WM Vaughan Sculthorpe / Killed in action in Flanders June 7th 1917 / aged 26 years / At rest

Lieut WM Vaughan Sculthorpe


37714 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in granite. Grave ref. UT 2102.

Dennis H / Folwell RAF VR / lost his life 3rd April 1945 / aged 19 years

Dennis H / Folwell RAF VR


37700 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in pink marble. Grave ref. CD 310.

… / In proud and loving memory of / Alfred George younger son of the above / 3rd Brigade Canadian field artillery / Killed in action near Ypres October 18th 1917 aged 27 / one of the bravest and the best / "With Christ which is far better"

Alfred George


37701 WW1 Addition to family gravestone.

… / Cpl Andrew Frank (Addison) / 5th son aged 26 / Killed in action 27th January 1917 / interred (---) Cemetery, France

Cpl Andrew Frank (Addison)


37702 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in granite.

… / John Underwood 2nd Leicestershire Regt / Eldest son of the above / died of wounds received in action / April 16th 1917 aged 24 years buried Etaples Military Cemetery / called to higher service

John Underwood 2nd Leicestershire Regt



In loving memory of / Olivia, widow of John Henry Hulme / died Feb 8th 1940, aged 79 / Olivia, daughter / died March 20th 1933, aged 47 / John, son / killed in France March 21st 1918, aged 26 / Mary Elizabeth Morley, sister / died May 23rd 1919, aged 60

Hulme / John


37698 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in black marble.

In memory of / William Winterton / Elder son of Frank and Mary Gertrude Winterton / 2nd Lieut Royal Scots killed in / action in the Battle of Loos / Sept 25th 1915 aged 19 years

William Winterton

132 New Walk Museum


Shield with cinque foil surmounted by medieval style helmet surmounted by a wyvern. Acanthus on each side.

This tablet was erected / by the past and present boys of the / Desford Industrial School in / memory of their comrades who / fought and died for their country / in the South African War 1899-1902

Boer 2 (SA) 5

133 Welford Road 37671 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in ... / Also of Clifford George RAF VR / son of the Clifford George RAF VR




Cemetery granite. Grave in section FS.

above / gave his life on operations in N Africa / May 14th 1943 / aged 33 years


37703 WW Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UN CONS D 203.

In ever loving remembrance / of / John Matthews / Born 19th February 1839 / died 8th September 1899 / "In the lord's hands / the lord doeth all things well" / Also of / Annie, dearly beloved / wife of the above / born 12th January 1839 / died 20 November 1900 / ... / Also of Corporal EC Matthews MM / 2nd Life Guards youngest son / of John Matthews killed in action / in France 1918 aged 38 years

Corporal EC Matthews MM / 2nd Life Guards


37704 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. ... / Also Wilfred Walter (Walker) / 2nd Leicestershire Regt / who gave his life in France / Oct 31st 1914, aged 28 years / Interred in la Touret cemetery / …

Also Wilfred Walter (Walker) / 2nd Leicestershire Regt


37709 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. D 0480

… / Also WH Wagstaff AB RND / (son in law) / killed in action near Baupaume / Dec 30 1917 aged 38 years / Content to live but not afraid to die, death is the crown of life

WH Wagstaff AB RND


37710 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Affectionate memory of / Lieut / Noel Rowe / Killed in action / 25th April 1945 / interred / Nijmegen Holland / aged 28 years

Lieut / Noel Rowe


37708 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / William Sykes / died April 30th 1911, / aged 57 years / "Nearer my God to thee" / Also / Mary Ann / beloved wife of the above / died May 9th 1939 / aged 84 years / "At rest" / Also / Pte GA Sykes / (1/3 Leicsters) / Dearly beloved son of the above / Killed in France August 15th 1917 / aged 31 years

Pte GA Sykes / (1/3 Leicsters)


37707 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / Arthur William/ Lewitt, / who passed away May 9th 1928 / aged 53 years / Also / Ellen Maud, / beloved wife of the above / died Dec 14th 1937, / aged 63 years / Reunited / Also / Millie Smith / their daughter / died Dec 12th 1985 / aged 62 years / Also / Leonard Arthur, only beloved son of the above / who fell in action in France / June 28th 1918, aged 20 years / Interred in Tannay British cemetery / "Heavenly father in thy care / we leave our loved ones sleeping"

Lewitt / Leonard Arthur


37705 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in grey marble. Grave ref. UC 135

… / Also of Sergt Pilot William John Timms RAF VR / Killed in action Luga, Malta Jan 11th 1941 / aged 24 years

Sergt Pilot William John Timms RAF VR


37706 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in black marble.

In loving memory of / George / the beloved husband of / Eliza Gristwood / who passed away April 16th 1926 / aged 75 years / At rest / Also of / Eliza Gristwood / who passed away Feb 27th 1930 / aged 67 years / Also in memory of / Lieut George Harry / Gristwood / 1st Leicester Regt / son of the above / who died of wounds received in action / September 16th 1916, / aged 24 years / Interred Grove Town Cemetery France

Lieut George Harry / Gristwood / 1st Leicester Regt


37724 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. In proud memory of / Sergeant Stewart Sandom / RAFVR / Bomber Command / killed in action / April 14th 1941 / aged 21 years

Sergeant Stewart Sandom / RAFVR / Bomber Command



Within 122. Unknown type of memorial.

In memory of / Colonel John Cridlan Barrett VC TD DL FRCS / 5th Bn the Royal Leicestershire Regiment / 1916-1939 / honorary Colonel 5th Bn 1953-58 / died May 1977 / aged 79

Colonel John Cridlan Barrett VC TD DL FRCS / 5th Bn the Royal Leicestershire Regiment



Addition to family gravestone. … / Also of Thomas William Sweet / the beloved son of the above / who died at Middlesburg April 6th 1901 / in the South African War / aged 30 years

Thomas William Sweet




145 Westcotes Drive Church

37734 WW2 Five light window with figures of a scout, sea scout, brownie and guide in four outer windows and a cross at the top with scout and guide badge below in central light.

To the Glory of God / and in honour of / the scouts and guides / of this church / who served in / the Second World War

Unknown

146 37735 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory / of / Emily / beloved wife of / Albert Pawley, / who died May 9 1917 / aged 60 years / Also L Cpl John / 3rd/4th Leicester Regt / Beloved son of the above / died of wounds received / in action Octr 3 1917, / aged 22 years / Interred British cemetery / Mendinghem / "At rest"/ Also dad / died April 1st 1943, aged 84 years / "Re-united"

L Cpl John / 3rd/4th Leicester Regt


37732 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Our dear boy / Pte TG Evans, / 11th Batt Durham Light Infantry / who died from wounds / March 30th 1918, / aged 49 years / [names]

Pte TG Evans, / 11th Batt Durham Light Infantry


37731 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / William James Shaw / Died 4th Decr 1931 aged 67 years / Also of Annie, wife of the above / Died 27th Jany 1939 aged 74 years / Also Eustace William Leslie, / son of the above (1st/1st Leic Yeomanry) / Missing at Ypres 13th May 1915, / aged 23 years

Eustace William Leslie


37729 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in marble. Grave ref. CD 0121

… / And of / 2nd Lieut / Samuel Collis Harding MM / Tank Corps / Eldest son of the above / Born 18th Sept 1893 / Killed in action at Langemarck / near Passchendaele / on 22nd Augt 1917 / …

2nd Lieut / Samuel Collis Harding MM / Tank Corps


37730 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in marble.

In / loving memory of / Annie Herbert / died 28 May 1937 / aged 61 / Also William, / husband of the above / died 14 December 1943, / aged 67 / Also Roy / son of the above / Killed in Italy 7 October 1944 / aged 27

Herbert / Roy


37739 WW1 Rough hewn granite cross surmounting plinth. Inscription on plinth and slate tablet placed below.

In / remembrance / of the heroic / Belgian soldiers / [names] and the Belgian refugees who / passed away in the town and county / during the Great European War / RIP

WW1 7 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/ep/planning/conservation/historic-parks-and-gardens/welford-road-cemetery/


37740 WW1 CWGC cross and large white stone wall with inscription carved onto side. Names in columns.

Their name liveth for evermore / [Names] WW1 152 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/ep/planning/conservation/historic-parks-and-gardens/welford-road-cemetery/

153 St Michael’s Church

37754 WW1 Nowy-headed stone tablet with shields in upper corners and regimental badge of the Leicestershire Regiment in the top centre, mounted within ornate marble frame.

To the Glory of God / and in loving memory of / Thomas Whittingham eldest son of / Alter Godfrey & Edith Mary Gordon / Whittingham, of Knighton Vicarage / Lieutenant 1st 4th Leicestershire Regiment / a sidesman & church worker at this church / born 12th June 1893 killed in action in France at the Hohenzollern redoubt 13th Oct 1915 / he bravely and willingly gave a loving / loyal, cheerful life for duty for his country / and for his master Jesus Christ / "So doth the greater glory dim the less"

Thomas Whittingham

154 Ingle Street Junior School

50609 WW1 Rectangular brass memorial plaque on wooden backboard.

Ingle street old boys / who made the supreme sacrifice / in the Great War 1914-19 / [names]

WW1 43

155 St Stephens Church

50614 WW1 Wooden framed plaque with crenellation at top with six small circular motifs.

The Great War 1914 1918 / [names] / Jesus mercy help RIP

WW1 203


37753 WW1; WW2 Two large rectangular WW1 panels in stone with two smaller trapezium shaped WW2 panels underneath

1914 - 1918 / [names] / 1939-1945 / [names] WW1: Arthur Allen Laurence Allen Edmund R Armstrong Edward W Austin

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/ep/planning/conservation/historic-parks-and-gardens/welford-road-cemetery/













Clarence G Bostock Victor P Bosworth Ernest Braddock Arthur E Bree Harold Bree Oliver Bree Harold A Broughton Thomas Burden Howcutt Burdett George W Cave James Cave Cecil RS Cook Levett GE Cooper Edwin RC Cooper W Herbert Capewell Leslie Covill Frank Day Horace Eaton Fred Frearson F Robert Frost Arthur G Gibson Arthur P Goddard Walter Goodson Sidney N Holmes Charles S Hubbard Bertie Kettle Albert Lawrence Thomas Lawrence W Ernest Lee Fred Lester James Mason I William Mason Oliver R Mason Ernest Mosley George Munday William Munday William TR Munton Gerald Overton John T Philips Harry Sharpe Edward Smith Edgar Tomlin Enoch Tunnicliffe John W Valentine Harry Vickers Ernest Wells Bertram Weston Thomas Whittingham Henry Wales Bert Facer WW2: Eric Ballard Peter Brotherton Hilary Clarke Stanley Clarke Arthur Gilbert Frank Ogden John W Preston John Swingler Kenneth Wilcox

157 St Philips Church

37751 WW2 Processional cross with dedicatory plaque

The processional cross / was presented to the church / in memory of the men and / women of this church and / parish who gave their lives / in the World War 1939 - 1945

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158 St Philips Church

37750 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque mounted onto stone slab backboard. Inscription in relief.

To the Glory of God and in memory of the men / of this parish who fell in The Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names]

WW1 70



… / Also James Percy Hodkins / son of James H and Sarah / Killed in action Sept 26th 1917 / aged 25 years

James Percy Hodkins


37727 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Also / John Curtis youngest son / 2nd Lieut 34th Leicesters / killed in action in France / 22nd March 1918 / aged 21 years

John Curtis

161 St Barnabas Church

37767 WW2 Wooden plaque with decorative head bearing coat of arms and colourful inscription in centre in green and gold with red background

1939 – 1945 / A tribute of love and remembrance / [names] / Greater love hath no man than this

Roy Addison Alan Brown Norman Ballard Roy Gowing Stan Goode Maurice Hutchinson James Hardy Harry Murby Harold Sharp William Stevens Edgar Ward

D Kenyon

162 Seventh Day Adventists Church, University Road

37782 WW1 Clipsham stone monument with head symbolising four apostles on shaft surmounting octagonal plinth, on circular base.

In grateful memory of our men who died in the Great War, 1914 – 19 / their names are recorded within the church. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

None

163 Seventh Day Adventists Church, University Road

37783 WW1 Stained glass window. Unknown Unknown


37766 WW1 Wooden reredos above the altar with long panel with inscription over six panels bearing names in black. Central raised cross detail.

To the Glory of God / and in memory of the men of this parish and congregation / whose lives were sacrificed in the Great War 1914-1918 / The reredos above the altar was set up by relatives and friends / [Names]

Abell CA Attenborough H Atkins WT Bailey AW Ballard J Ballard JE Banks G Banks H Barker WA Barrowdaile E Bell J Bassett WH Beal JW Bilson JE Blower G Blower W Bolton P Bond J Bosworth W Bramley W Brown F Brown J Butcher AG Carpenter A Cave CO Clayton WA Cox E Cox F Cox W Crofts H Cramp T Deacon GE Dickenson TW Dixon S

D Kenyon




Elton A Farmer AH Fray E Frith DB Gannon JT Garrett JA Gee T Gilbert TH Glover G Goddard T Goddard GH Golding H Goom RH Grigg R Gristwood GH Grundy W Guess G Halford A Hall B Halls EE Hand R Henry C Henson HJ Hewitt A Hill C Hill S Hill AW Hill JW Hickman A Hoult W Hubbard AC Hurst D Inglesant JH Inglesant TG Ingram J Joyce JE Keates G Keene F King S Lowe W Large WH Martin AJ Martin A Matthews T Matthews W Moore JT Moore TJ Moulden H Maltby H Nash H North H Orme J Orme E Ormiston A Orson JT Osborne A Pallett F Park CH Parsons P Pearson H Pegg BA Perkins A Perkins F Prior FW Rainbow P




Rainbow W Rawlings W Reeve WJ Reeve JW Reeves A Reeves AW Rose E Robinson W Rudkin B Rudkin W Russell WA Scholes W Scott EH Scott T Scott TF Sharp E Sharp BN Shaw FW Sleet A Smith EJH Smith GH Soames AE Spriggs C Stevenson J Stevenson HAE Tamms F Tamms J Thompson JW Thorp JH Thorpe JE Topham H Towl JW Tutty FS Vann Rev BW BA / VC DSO MC / Croix De Guerre Vernon W Walter EG Ward E Watson WE Watson JJ Waudby W Webb EJ Webster EW Weller E Wesley G West AH White L Withers F Wormleigh- / ton W Wilson AA Worley W York JC Hewitt G Hewitt HB Underwood / AR DCM

165 St Peter’s Church

37764 WW1 Metal panelling with names in columns and inscription in relief

They whom these / panels commemorate / were numbered / among those who / at the call of / king and country, / left all that was dear to them, / endured hardness, / faced danger and / finally passed out / of the sight of men / by the path of duty / and self-sacrifice, / giving up their own / lives that others / might live in / freedom / Let those who come / after see to it that / their names be not / forgotten / 1914 / 1918 / [names] / Tyro-victor / The Great War / 1914 – 1918 / "More than / conquerors"

WW1 197




166 St Augustine’s

Church 37761 Boer War 2

(SA) Plain rectangular brass plaque with incised inscription mounted onto wooden backboard.

In memory of / No 4846 Pte Howard / 1st King's Dragoon Guards / died in South Africa / 26th May, 1901 / Erected by / his officers and comrades

No 4846 Pte Howard / 1st King's Dragoon Guards

167 St Andrew’s Church

37763 WW1; WW2 Ornate wooden board with carved inscription and Christ on the cross in centre. Greek cross carved in each corner of the board.

To the Glory of God and in memory of the / men of this parish who died in the war 1914 - 19 / [Names]

WW1 104

168 Arch of Remembrance, Victoria Park


Regimental crest and scroll placed on east gate of Arch of Remembrance enclosure, with associated plaque on gate pier. Listed Building (II*) - 9/345 (Gates & Gatepiers); Registered Park or Garden (II).

Gate: Hindoostan / Royal Leicestershire / In grateful memory of / the service and sacrifice of all ranks / the Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th foot) / 1688 - 1964 left hand pier: The memorial to the Royal Leicestershire Regiment / was dedicated by the very reverend John C Hughes MA / Provost of Leicester, on 21st June 1975 at the time of / the laying up of the colours of the 1st Battalion in / Leicester Cathedral and those of the 2nd Battalion / in the Regimental Museum

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169 Victoria Park 37789 WW2 Metal plaque attached to granite boulder

In tribute and memory of those men of the United States (all American) 82nd airborne division who served in Leicester and county prior to the 'D' Day invasion of Europe. They came in freedom. They fought with gallantry. Many never to return to their homeland.

None

170 Memorial Park 37757 WW1 Concrete base surmounted by stone step, plinth and cenotaph. Inscription carved at top of cenotaph below metal relief, and with names on two metal plaques below inscription. Relief of nude dead figure on ground with two boys kneeling beside him, one holding a wreath over him.

914 1919 / In glorious memory / of old boys of / Bridge Road School / who died in the / Great War / [names] / “At the going down of the Sun and in the morning / we will remember them”

SB Adcock / A Adams / HB Allen / GW Banks / WG Barsby / W Barton / AE Billington / P Bolton / W Bray / W Broad / B Broughton / R Brown / JC Burton / A Callaghan / A Capenhurst / T Carr / G Carpendale / W Cheney / S Chennery / WH Clarke / PO Clarke / WA Clayton / A Cooley / H Copas / WI Cooper / F Congreve / E Cox / W Cox / AE Craig / J Crick / S Bland / J Rowe / TP Wickstead / -- Dilkes / A Dawdrey / TW Dickinson / H Dobney / F Eaton / E Edwards / O Essex / EV Evans / O Evans / AH Farmer / E Frake / AE Francks / A French / HH Flint / JT Gannon / A Gibbons / J Gibbons / GH Gillett / HH Goode / W Greenwood / GH Gristwood / WH Herring / AW Hill / C Hill / JW Hill / S Hill / WC Hill / A Houghton / W Houghton / W Hughes / DA Humberstone / A Hutchinson / V Mason / RS Spriggs / DC Jackson / TM Johnstone / TA Jones / A Kennewell / FH Kettle / J Kirby / GH Kirby / E Knight / RL Knight / F Knight / F Lawrence / H Lenton / FT Leader / H Maltby / J Manton / FA March / W Myring / C Naylor / IT Orson / A Osborne / G Overton / AS Palmer / T Parker / NB Parsons / W Payne / H Pearson / (AC) Pell / A Perkins / F Perkins / T (Pliemmer) / A Porter / B Pratt / H Pratt / AD Preston / W Pridmore / A Ratcliffe / WJ Rawlings / W Reeves / E Rockley / I Rouse / W Savage / F Shaw / C Simpkin / F Smith / A Snow / T Spick / FW Stafford / A Storer / P Storer / R Southam / E Taylor / RE Taylor / B Thrall / A Tilley / H Walker / IR Ward / EW Webster / F Wells / C Whitaker / HC Whitmore / IR Wiggington / H Williamson / W Wormleighton / -- Phillips / GO Rainer

A Finney


37755 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque with incised inscription.

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of / Victor P Bosworth / 12th Batt KRRC / Eldest son of Edwin & Florence Emily Bosworth / (a worthy and distinguished chorister of this church) / who fell in action at Langemarck, / Augt 16th 1917 Aged 19 years / "Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord"

Victor P Bosworth / 12th Batt KRRC


37726 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In / loving memory of / Thomas Brewin Turner / March 24th 1859 - July 15th 1927 / Mary

Harold Bemrose Turner




Elizabeth Turner / Sept 24th 1868 - Sept 2nd 1904 / Harold Bemrose Turner / died of wounds received in action in France / interred in St Cever Cemetery Rouen / Jan 23rd 1892 - Sept 5th 1918 / Elizabeth Helene Bessie Turner / Dec 19th 1893 - Nov 10th 1935 / Percival Henry Turner / January 20th 1901 - November 29th 1942 / Gladys Vera Knight / July 4th 1895 - August 5th 1979 / beloved wife of Frank Knight and / daughter of Thomas Brewin Turner / Reunited

173 St Saviour’s Church

50608 WW1 Memorial window designed by Harrods depicting figure holding shepherd’s crook with dedication at base. Window subject to recent vandalism.

I come to thee in the / name of the Lord of Hosts / to the Glory of God and in / loving memory of Harvey Priestman / Flint MC 2nd Lt who fell / in action in France May 27th 1918

Harvey Priestman / Flint MC 2nd Lt Yes, including of soldier

174 St Peter’s Church


Rectangular metal plaque with laurel draped along top and female figure to left holding palm front and circular laurel wreath over inscription.

To the memory of / William Henry Whitehead / who died a soldiers death / for his country in South / Africa January 4th 1902 / This tablet is erected by / his comrades

William Henry Whitehead

175 St George the Martyr’s RC Church

50605 WW1 Metal plaque with elaborate border and heavily carved wooden frame with rounded top. Main plaque has sailor and soldier with weapons pointing downwards, and an angel holding a circular laurel wreath in each hand. Cross carved above inscription and crossed flags beneath, with shield in centre. Further metal plaque beneath bearing details of unveiling.

In memory / of / Leonard Cornelius / HMS "Defense" / Altar server in this church / and all other / our gallant sailors, officers & men / who lost their lives in the / Battle of Jutland / on the eve of the feast of ascension / 1916 / This tablet was placed / and a sum of £2000 / set aside for naval scholarships / in connection with this church / the path of duty / was the way to Glory / Jesu / mercy! / This memorial tablet was unveiled by Lady Beatty / on behalf of / Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCYO Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet / the eve of the ascension / 1917

Leonard Cornelius / HMS "Defense"

176 St George the Martyr’s RC Church

50606 WW1 Wooden cross bearing Christ, on stone plinth surmounting five steps. Built and dedicated 1921, cost £490, W Thrall and Son stonemasons, WD Caroe Architect

Dedicated / by the Rv Noel Mellish VC MC / with prayer and thanks- / giving for those who / from this church and par- / ish of S George the Soldier / Martyr laid down their / lives in the Great War: 1914 1918 / Lord all pitying Jesu blest / grant them thine eternal rest / [names]

HMS Defence / L Cornelius AB / RND / GH Merrin AB / Leic Yeo / Tr GH Conquest / RHA / Gnr F Hillyer / RHA / Drvr EA Kenney / RGA / Gnr GTHB Arnett / JA Hames / RE / Spr AT Chafer / Spr AH Revitt / R Scots / - W Owen / -B Kent R / Cpl H Crook / - W York R / Pte H Finlow / York R / Pte JD Ryall / Ches R / Pte JA Bruce / Worc R / Pte WE Warner / --- Hig-- R / - / - W Anderson / RH Brig / Rfn A Phipps / MG Corps / Pte E Clarke / CFA / RO WW Perry / Can Scot / Pte HW Allen / Pte - Finch / Aus Artill / Sig GH Dilkes / - Fus / Lt AE Chambers / Linc R / Sgt G Burrowes / W York R / L Cpl B Thrall / Pte - Briggs / E York R / L Cpl LT Bird / - / - / 2nd - Wells / - Riddington / - / L Cpl FR Spencer / Pte EW Adcock / Sig HJ Brombley / Pte GS Button / Pte A Cartwright / Pte WT Jones / Pte TE - / Pte E - / Pte AC Smith / - / Pte - Calvert

Yes, but unclear

177 Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth College

50797; 50798

WW1; WW2; 20th Century

Conflicts

Central plinth bearing plaques with WW1 names on two tiered base, in hedged enclosure entered via wrought iron gate. Panel with inscription bears crest carved in stone. Gate posts bear WW2 metal plaques with further names. Unveiled 10th July 1922 by Major General HL Crocker; dedicated by Bishop of Peterborough. R Birch has provided paper archive.

In memoriam / Aeternam Huius Scholae / Alumnorum qui in summon / patriae discrimine vitam / libenter devoventes / sibi honorem scholae / gloriam patriae salutem / pepererunt / MCMXIV – MCMXVIII / et / MCMXXXIX - MCMXLY other column: Masters / [names] / Old boys / [names]

WW1 191 1951 Millington FB 1953 Bones KB 1955 Bates AM

178 City of Leicester Transport Offices

50799 WW1 Modelled and cast bronze memorial with “semper eadem” written beneath enamelled shield at top. Laurel wreath border. Unveiled 20 April 1922. Possibly to be moved to Abbey

In memory of / the men of the city / of Leicester Tramways / and Electricity Dept / who gave their lives / in the Great War 1914-1918 / [Names] / "Lest we forget"

WW1 70




Pumping Station? Also see 202. 179 All Saints

Church 50620 WW1 Rectangular slate plaque with thin line

border and two small circular carvings top left and right. Sited below stained glass window of three lights, which has three figures in central light and emblems of St Peter and St Michael in left and right lights.

Plaque: In memoriam / Old scholars and parishioners / who fell in the Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names] / In glorious hope Window: To the Glory of God and in commemoration of the centenary of All Saints / School and in memory of the former scholars who fell in the War 1914 - 1918

Angrave A Bailey T Bailey W Bemrose GE Bernard S Bilson E Bird F Bird J Birtley H Bosworth T Brombley T Burton T Buswell A Buzzard D Cave A Calcutt J Chambers G Croxall AW Dalby A Dean G Dicks S Disney A Disney J Dunmore C Elkington JT Farnsworth H Felgate H Fisher F Freeman B Goodacre CH Goodwin D Glover E Greasley S Green C Green H Griswell E Hawkesworth W Heighton C Hinks AE Humber CF Hunter H Hutchinson T Illston J Jacques J Jermyn S Large H Loftus W Lokes A Long WH Mansfield H March H Marsden A Marsh H Mason T Mitchell L Mutlow H Neal W Overton EW Payne JH Pearson A Pratts TG Popple W Preston AF Rawson A

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Rawson F Roberts JW Roberts T Ross J Scott A Sharp SA Skelson A Smart G Smart T Smart GE Spicer H Springthorpe A Stephenson H Stevenson C Stokes H Stroud A Tebbutt JHG Thorpe J Vann. J Warner WG Watts JT Wells A Willars C Wilmott A Wright F Wright J Wright P


50785 WW1 Addition to black family gravestone, with triangular head, columns at each side and black words on white background

In / loving memory / of / William Noble / Killed in action 19th April 1918 / Aged 33 years / Duty nobly done / Also Mary beloved mother of the above / Died 2nd Jan 1945 / Aged 81 years / Also / Bessie Mullins / Died 31st Jan 1936 / Aged 79 years / Loving memories

William Noble


50786 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in form of black marble cross on three tiered base. Grave ref. CD 0188

... Grand-daughter of / Henry and Fanny Jane Watters / Died February 11th 1943, / Aged 32 years / Joseph Henry Collymore Hunter / Died on active service in India, March 4th 1944 / aged 30 years (Buried at Bangalore) / …

Joseph Henry Collymore Hunter

182 Church of Christ, Evington Road

50619 WW2 Nowy headed wooden board on chains, with metal plaque attached showing names below circular laurel wreath at top centre.

1939 1945 / In grateful memory of / [names] / who gave their lives / in the 2nd World War / We will remember them

WW2 2

183 St James the Greater Church

50618 WW1; WW2 Bronze rectangular plaque with circular motif between WW1 dates and gold ribbon decorations on carved border

Our glorious dead / for God King & Country / 1914 1919 / [names] / 1939 1945 / [names]

WW1 20; WW2 3

184 Evangelical Free Church

50616 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised edge border.

To the Glory of God / and in affectionate and grateful memory / of forty-three sons of this church and / its institutions who fell in the Great War / August 1914 - November 1918 / [Names] / "They counted not their lives dear unto themselves so / that they might finish their course with joy"

WW1 43


50617 WW2 Rectangular bronze plaque with oak leaf border and crossed sprigs of laurel between dedication and names.

To the Glory of God / and in proud and / honoured memory of / the men of this church / who gave their lives in / the World War 1939-1945 / [names] / and in gratitude to all who served

WW2 13


50787 WW1 Addition to grey marble family gravestone

... Also / of her dear little sister / Annie Louise / died March 4th 1909 / aged 4 months / Also of / Sergeant Robert Edward Hyslop / of Brome Suffolk Regiment / Beloved eldest son of the above / Died in France in the service / of his country / Nov 21st 1916 / aged 27 years / They shall not grow old as we / that are left grow old.

Sergeant Robert Edward Hyslop / of Brome Suffolk Regiment




Age shall / not weary them at the going down / of the sun and in the morning / we will remember them


50788 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. CD 0208

... Frederick Ernest Papprill Capt 4th East Lancs killed in action June 3rd 1917 Havrincourt wood France aged 25

Frederick Ernest Papprill Capt 4th East Lancs


50793 WW1 Nowy headed black metal plaque with raised gold lettering and border in relief. Gold cross in head of plaque.

To the Glory of God / and in remembrance of / Lt Col the Rev Bernard W Vann / BA VC MC & Croix de Guerre / One time assistant curate / of this parish. A true / Christian a fearless man / a fine soldier beloved by / officers and men. He fell / at Ramicourt Oct 3rd 1918 / leading his men / RIP

Lt Col the Rev Bernard W Vann / BA VC MC & Croix de Guerre

Yes but need close up

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=238721

189 St Paul’s Church

50794 WW1 Stained glass window. George Quartermain died 1918 George Quartermain


50795 WW1 Brass plaque Major Henry Hetherington Emerson killed in action in France Sept 26 1916

Major Henry Hetherington Emerson


50792 WW1 Brown marble close on three tiered steps with HIS in circular setting in centre of cross. Dedication has raised lettering.

In / loving memory / of / Joseph BF Clow / who died October 1st 1919 / aged -- years / Also Emma Clow / beloved wife of the above / died November 7th 1928 / aged 76 years / Also Joseph Frank Booth / Sergeant 2nd/7th Sherwood Foresters / killed in action east of Ypres September 16th 1917 / aged 18 1/2 years / Because I live so shall ye live also

Joseph Frank Booth / Sergeant 2nd/7th Sherwood Foresters


50791 WW1 Addition to grey stone family gravestone in shield shape. Grave ref. UD 0038.

… Also Private Henry Juba RAMC / youngest son of the above/ killed in action at Ypres September 25th 1917 / Aged 34 years / At rest

Private Henry Juba RAMC


50790 WW1 Addition to grey marble family gravestone. Grave ref. UC 0051.

… Entered into rest Jan 6th 1938 aged 88 years / We thank God for every remembrance of them / Also their dearly loved daughters Nellie … / who died Feb 13th 1954 aged 62 years / Florence Cox / who died Jan 20th 1963 aged 91 years / Also Lily Cox / who died Oct 21st 1975 aged 81 years / Also Albert son of the above / killed in action March 22nd 1918 aged 21 years

Cox / Albert


50789 WW1 Addition to black marble family gravestone.

… Also Pte A Bindley 5th Leicesters / Son of the above / killed in action / Sept 24th 1918 / aged 24 years …

Pte A Bindley 5th Leicesters


50615 WW1 Bronze plaque with carved edge raised border. Unveiled 3rd July 1921.

To the Glory of God / and in high and grateful appreciation of the struggles / and sacrifices of four hundred / sons of this church and its / Missions Sunday schools and / institutions who served in the / Great War / August 1914 - November 1918

None


50796 Boer 2 (SA) Brass plaque Pte Howard killed in action in South Africa 26 May 1901

Pte Howard


50804 WW1 Book of remembrance in wooden case with inscription in gold

Case: 1914 Remember 1918 Book: Name Regiment where given / [Names] / Friends of the dead, in fragrant memory keep / their names, the harvest of whose death you reap; / for only with a world more worthy made / by us shall their great sacrifice be paid

WW1 202


50805 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in south aisle.

59th (North Midland) Division (TF) / To the Glory of God / In memory of the dead / and to record the service / of the division in The / Great War 1914-18 / Ypres 1917 - Menin Road - Polygon Wood / Cambrai 1917 - St Quentin - First Battle / of Bapaume 1918 - Bailleur First / Battle of Nemmel - Albert 1918 / Royal Artiller / 295 (2/1 n mid) BDE (Lincoln) / 296 (2/2 N mid) BDE (Staffs) / 297 (2/3 NI Mid) BDE (Derby) / 298 (2/4 N Mid) BDE (Derby) / V Heavy Trench Mortar Bat / Div Am Col (Staffs and Derby) / Royal Engineers / 467 Field Coy (Staffs) / 469

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Field Coy (Staffs) / 470 Field Coy (Staffs) / Signal Coy (Staffs, Notts/Derby, Lincoln & Leicester) / 176th (Staffs Infantry BDE / 2/5 BNS Staffs Reg / 2/6 BNS Staffs Reg / 2/5 Bnn Staffs Reg / 2/6 Bnn Staffs Reg / 174 Machine Gun Coy / 176 Trench Mortar B 177th (Lincs & Leicester) Infantry Bde / 2/4 Bn Lincoln Reg / 2/5 Lincoln Reg / 2/4 Bn Leicester Reg / 2/5 Bn Leicester Reg / 177 Machine Gun Coy / 177 Trench Mortar B / 200 Machine Gun Company. 178th (Notts & Derby) Infantry Bde / 2/5 Bn Notts & Derby Reg / 2/6bn Notts & Derby Reg / 2/7 Bn Notts & Derby Reg / 2/8 Bn Notts & Derby Reg / 175 Machine Gun Coy / 178 Trench Mortar B. ASC / No 1 Coy (Staffs) / No 2 Coy (Lincoln and Leicester) / No 3 Coy (Staffs) / No 4 Coy (Notts & Derby) RAMC / 2/1 N Mid Field Amb (Derby) / 2/2 N Mid Field Amb (Leics) / 2/3 N Mid Field Am (Staffs / Sanitary Section / (Leicester) RAVC / N Mid Vet Sect / (Lincoln / 250 Divl Employ)


50806 Boer 2 (SA) Unknown type of memorial in inner south aisle.

The Saint John Ambulance Brigade / To the Glory of God / and in memory of / Private Francis H Cooper / of the Wheatsheaf Division / Leicester Corps / who died of disease contracted / whilst engaged in attendance / on the sick and wounded during / the South African campaign / 1899 – 1902 / July 3rd 1900 aged 22 years / Erected by the members of the / corps / Pro ultimate hominum

Private Francis H Cooper / of the Wheatsheaf Division / Leicester Corps

200 St John the Baptist Church

50803 WW2 White plaque with black lettering. This tablet was placed here by the / congregation of this church to / commemorate with affection and / gratitude those of this parish who / gave their lives / in the War of 1939-1945 / [names]

WW2 14 http://yourhistories.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/st-john-the-baptist-war-remembrance-plaques/


50802 WW1 Large nowy headed slate plaque with large ?marble sculpted border, featuring figures holding swords on either side.

To the / Glory of God / & in memory of the men / of this parish who gave their lives in the War 1914-1918 / [names]

WW1 58 http://yourhistories.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/st-john-the-baptist-war-remembrance-plaques/

202 City of Leicester Transport Offices

50800 WW2 Plaque in addition to WW1 plaque 178. Possibly to be moved to Abbey Pumping Station?

Leicester City Transport / 1939 – 1945 / [names]

WW2 9

203 Saffron Lane Working Men’s Club

50801 WW2 Arched stained glass window with tiger at the top (for Leicestershire Regiment), a thistle, daffodil, shamrock and red rose in central pane and eleven service badges interspersed with acorns around outer border.

1939 1945 / This window is dedicated in / remembrance of the men of this club / who gave their lives during the Second / World War, also a thankofering (sic) for the / victorious conclusion and safe return of / members from all branches of the services

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50807 WW1 Tablet This tablet is dedicated to the many / of the members of the Leicester Corps / St John Ambulance Brigade / who died in the Service of their country whilst / tending the sick and wounded in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / [names] / Pro utilitate hominum

WW1 13


50808 Colonial India Unknown type of memorial In loving memory of / George Henry eldest son of / WM Fredk and Elizth Quinn of this town / who serving with the 1st Northumberland Regt / lost his life endeavouring to save a comrade at / Saran Sar North West Frontier India / November 9th 1897 aged 23 years

George Henry / Quinn

206 St George’s Chapel, Leicester


Unknown type of memorial Sacred to the memory of / Major General / Sir Edward Mabbott Woodward / KCMC CB / born 29 July 1861 - died 21 March 1943 / 27 years

Major General / Sir Edward Mabbott Woodward / KCMC CB




Cathedral Colonel of the Leicestershire / Regiment / 16 January 1916 - 21 March 1943

207 St George’s Chapel, Leicester Cathedral


Unknown type of memorial To the memory of the undermentioned / officers and men 1st Battalion / The Leicestershire Regiment / who died in Bermuda and Halifax NS / of enteric fever and from other causes / during the period Sept 1 1888 - April 1891 / [names]

NCD 34



Unknown type of memorial In loving memory of / Major General / Sir Henry Leycester Croker / KGB CMG / Commanded 2nd battalion of the / Leicestershire Regiment / from 11 November 1910 to 18 March 1915 / Commanded 81st Inf BDE in France / from 21st March 1915 to 20th May 1916 / and the 28th division in Macedonia / from the 21st May 1916 to 18 November 1920 / Died 20th August 1938

Major General / Sir Henry Leycester Croker / KGB CMG


50811 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in inner south aisle.

In loving memory of / Alfred Ernest Chambers BA MC / Lieut 26th Battn Royal Fusiliers/ a server at this church intimate / friend of Frank Meredith Tompson / (commemorated hereunder) / who during / the advance on the Scheldt was / awarded the Military Cross for / 'courage, fine leadership, and / contempt of danger' in which / volunteered deed of bravery he / gave up his young life / endeavour passing into the fuller / life of the unseen. Oct 29th 1918 / aged 22 years / to his dear soul - loving and beloved / may our lord Jesus grant eternal / light and joy and happiness / 'Those who love one another in / Jesus Christ never see each / other for the last time' / T Pratt & Sons London

Alfred Ernest Chambers BA MC / Lieut 26th Battn Royal Fusiliers


50809 Korea Metal plaque with black lettering and small round blue badge at top centre. In inner south aisle.

The British Korean Veterans’ Association / The Leicestershire Branch / In remembrance of the Known County Fallen. In / 1950 Korea 1953 / [Names] / “Not one of them is forgotten before God” / Unveiled on 18th March 1990 by / General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley GBE KCB DSO MC

Pte NA Birch Pte G Coley Pte RN Cridland Pte RJ Derry Cpl N Fenemer Sgt SM Cox Pte B Thompson Cpl K James Lcpl R Taylor

Yes


50810 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in inner south aisle.

In loving memory of / Frederick Meredith Tompson / 6th Battn Seaforth Highlanders / Student of Mirfield Theological / College, and altar server / at this church. He was killed / in action near Arras on / Easter Monday April 9th 1917 / aged twenty years. RIP / 'Time passeth, the world changeth / death hideth but love abideth' / 'Lift up your hearts: / we lift them up unto the Lord'

Frederick Meredith Tompson / 6th Battn Seaforth Highlanders



Unknown type of Memorial To the / Glory of God / and in memory of / Major General / Archibald Hammond / Utterson CB / Born 10th March 1836 / died 28 July 1912 / Colonel of the / Leicestershire Regiment / 1905-1912

Major General / Archibald Hammond / Utterson CB

213 St Augustine’s Church

37760 WW1 Rectangular brass plaque bearing incised inscription and mounted onto a wooden backboard.

In sacred and loving memory of / Major Henry Hetherington Emmerson / Killed in action / on the Somme (France) / September 26th 1916 / aged 35 years / RIP

Major Henry Hetherington Emmerson

214 Chapel, Royce Institute

50903 WW2 Bronze rectangular plaque with simple line border, on wooden backboard.

Members who fell in the World War / 1939 – 1945 / [names] / They died that we might live

WW2 2

215 Gent Limited 50904 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with gold lettering of dedication and names set in three columns (on stone?)

Gent & Co Ltd / Roll of Honour / The fallen / 1914 1918 / [names] / for our safety / footprints on the sands of time

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216 Gent and Co 50905 Unknown Stone plaque on outside factory wall. No details held.

Unknown. Unknown

217 Chapel, Royce 50902 WW1 Bronze rectangular plaque bearing line In loving memory of the members of the / Royce WW1 12




Institute border with English roses carved in each corner, on wooden backing.

Institute who gave their lives for / their country's cause in the Great War 1914-1919 / [names] / Our brothers in peace / "Greater love hath no man than this, / the sacrifice of one's self for the sake of others" / Until the day breaks and the / shadows flee away

218 Newarke Houses Museum

50900 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with painting above dedication and three columns of names. Painting depicts soldier and sailor in front of Union Flag looking out to sea. Names have red crosses to denote those who died and a white line for those wounded.

Roll of honour / Below are the honoured names of the members of / the staff of Messrs T Roberts & Sons / who took up arms in the great European war 1914 – 1919 / [names]

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50897 WW1 Single light stained glass window showing St George holding a sword and shield with dedicatory panel at his feet.

Window: Quit you / like men be strong Dedicatory panel: To the Glory of God and in memory of / Bertrand Batton West a Corporal / 16th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps / who fell in action at Poelcapelle Belgium / Sept 26th 1917 during the Great European War

Bertrand Batton West


50899 WW1 Paper roll of honour on hardwood backing. Names in black for served and red for fallen, displayed in columns with three panels above showing a union flag in a laurel wreath, a dead soldier lying at the feet of Christ on the cross and Leicester coat of arms (?) in laurel wreath on right.

Mantle Road Infants School / Roll of Honour / Old boys who gave their lives for us in / the Great War 1914-18 / [names] / those who served / [names]

WW1 54 (+ 240)

221 Gilroes Crematorium

50908 WW2 Cross of sacrifice adjacent to raised curved wall with names of dead.

Cross base: This cross of sacrifice is one in design / and intention with those which have / been set up in France and Belgium and / other places throughout the world / where our dead of the / Great War are laid to rest / Their name liveth for evermore Wall: 1939 / [names] / These members of / Hs Majesty’s Forces / died in the service / of their Country / and were cremated / [names] / 1945

F/Lt (pilot) SH Bazley / Royal Air Force (AAF) 2.3.1941 Lieutenant-Commander JM Beese / Royal Navy 11.1.1947 Corporal (U/T Obs) CJ Bleackley / Royal Air Force 28.9.1941 Pilot Officer (Pilot) J Bramley / Royal Air Force 11.6.1942 Captain M Brown / Royal Artillery 13.4.1942 / 1 Second Lieutenant HH Driver / The Leicestershire Regiment 29.9.1939 Driver WH England / Royal Army Service Corps 6.1.1942 LAC V Faulks / Royal Air Force 30.10.1947 Lieutenant RW Garland / Royal Army Ordnance Corps 18.9.1941 Private PRH Green / The Northamptonshire Regiment 26.10.1943 / 2 Captain AD Heard / Royal Artillery 11.12.1944 Warrant Offr 11 (BSM) AW Hackett / Royal Artillery 5.9.1944 Sergeant JAW Hardyman / Royal Air Force 2.3.1946 Subaltern Justina Harrowing / Auxiliary Territorial Service 2.9.1944 Driver GW Houston / Royal Engineers 4.6.1946 Major AT Hulett / Royal Artillery 6.1.1947 / 3 Private KK Jackson / Royal Army Pay Corps 27.12.1947 Driver W Lawrence / Royal Army Service Corps 12.12.1944 F/Lt (Navigator) N Lewis DEC & Bar / Royal Air Force 5.5.1947 Lieutenant GE Lockwood / Royal Army Pay Corps 20.6.1940 Sergeant (Navigator) JR Longstaff / Royal Air Force 6.12.1942 / 4 Lieutenant LH MacDonald / Royal Army Medical Corps 4.11.1940 Sergeant LCJ Marten / Royal Air Force 25.9.1941 F/Lt RA Marks AFM / Royal Air Force 9.11.1945 Corporal E Maxwell / Royal Air Force 9.11.1945 Lieutenant J Moffat / 1st Leicestershire Bn. Home Guard 7.3.1943 / 5 Gunner D Sarson / Royal Artillery 26.9.1946








LAC (U/T) Obs TD Siddons / Royal Air Force 24.11.1939 F/Lt (Pilot) H Tricks DFM / Royal Air Force 14.1.1945 Captain WS Yeates / 9th Leicestershire Bn. Home Guard 28.3.1943 / 6

222 Natwest Bank, Granby Street

37613 WW1 Rectangular wooden board with plain raised border with photographs of soldiers inset into board. Tudor rose at each corner and laurel wreath and carved ribbon design at top. Moved from St Martins’ branch in 1999.

1914-1918 'Lest we forget' / [Names] / In memory / of our colleagues at the Leicester branch / of the Westminster Bank Limited / who sacrified their lives in the Great War

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55126 WW1 Addition to family gravestone Our dear son L/Cpl Ernest Arthur Williams / Tank Corp / Killed in France August 25th 1918 / aged 25 years

L/Cpl Ernest Arthur Williams

224 Belgrave Liberal Club

55127 WW1; WW2 Wall mounted nowy headed brass plaque in wooden frame. Laurel wreath at head with crusader sword reaching from this to centre of plaque. Has lamps fixed to either side of plaque.

In commemoration of / the members of this club / who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914-1918 / [Names] / World War 1939-1945 / [Names] / At the going down of the sun / and in the morning / we will remember them

WW1 3; WW2 17

225 Jungle Club 55128 WW1 Roll of Honour in wooden frame. Central column of fallen and those awarded decorations flanked by four columns of those who served. Head of the roll is decorated with shields. Formerly Belgrave Working Men’s Club

Belgrave Working Mens / Club and Institute / Roll of Honour / The Great War 1914-1918 / [Names]

WW1 39 (+ 354)


55100 WW1 Wooden reredos with single light stained glass window breaking up first line of the inscription. Associated brass plaque.

Reredos: Their name Liv-eth for evermore / Do this in remembrance of me Plaque: To the Glory of God / and in loving memory of / William Charles Goldby / 2nd Liutentant 18th Battn Kings Royal Rifles / who fell in action on August --- 1918 / This panelling was erected by his father / RIP

William Charles Goldby / 2nd Liutentant 18th Battn Kings Royal Rifles


55099 WW1 Single light stained glass window depicting crucifixion, with inscription at base in a scroll held by two angels.

To the Glory of God and / in loving memory of Frank / Percy Haines, Lieut 8th Leicesters / who fell in action at Fontaine les / Croisilles, France, June 16th 1917

Frank / Percy Haines, Lieut 8th Leicesters


37614 WW2 Bronze plaque. Moved from St Martins’ branch in 1999.

In memory of the following member of the staff of this branch who gave his life in the Second World War / [name]

WW2 1


53892 WW1 Bronze plaque. Moved from St Martins’ branch in 1999.

In memory of the following members of the staff of this branch who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 [names]

WW1 7


50821 WW1 Wooden prayer desk To the Glory of God and in memory of Lionel Pilkington Abbott / Lieutenant 7th Leicestershire Regiment / Killed in action June 14 1916 / Ex Dono KM Abbott

Lionel Pilkington Abbott / Lieutenant 7th Leicestershire Regiment


20820 Egypt and the Sudan

(1882-1899)

Unknown type of memorial. To the Glory of God / in memory of / the undermentioned officers / non-commissioned officers and men / of the / 2nd battalion Leicestershire Regiment / who departed this life / while serving in Egypt 1900-1902 / A cross marks the spot in the military / cemetery wherein most of their bodies / lie buried / [names] / Erected by the officers and non-commissioned officers / and men of the 2nd Battalion

Egypt and the Sudan 42

232 Leicester Synagogue

55085 Holocaust Wall mounted stone tablet including gold Star of David embellished with golden ribbons and inscription in gold lettering.

Six million / Jewish martyrs / 1933-1945

233 Foresters Institute

55087 WW1 Nowy headed wooden board with metal plaques bearing names of the fallen in gold lettering displayed in five columns. Head of plaque has a badge

Ancient Order of Foresters Leicester District / In grateful memory of brethren of the / courts of this district who fell in / the Great War 1914-1919 / [names] / They died for humanity, / --- to

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framed by laurel wreaths. live for it 234 Peace Walk,

Victoria Park 55092 WW2 Small heart shaped stone with small

plaque attached to front. In memory of women 1939 - 1945 / Tribute to the ladies who gave their / lives for the freedom of the British / Islands, and the men & women that / fought on the Home Front / We will remember them


55084 WW2 White stone tablet with raised centre. Erected by the Leicester / Hebrew congregation / in honoured remembrance of / [names] / who gave their lives in the fight for / justice and freedom / 1939-1945 / [Hebrew characters] / Their memory will endure for ever

WW2 3


55083 WW1 Wooden board with stepped head featuring Star of David and including two columns of names on separate panels. Asterisks mark names of fallen.

Leicester / Hebrew congregation / Roll of Honour / Men who served in the Great War 1914-1918 / [names]

WW1 3 (+46)

237 St Luke’s Chapel, Leicester Royal Infirmary

55081 WW1 Metal plaque on stone tablet. Roundels in corners of moulded border with decoration along upper edges and top sections of left and right hand sides. Raised lettering.

In memoriam / Members of the Leicester / Royal Infirmary nursing / staff who gave their / lives in the cause of honour / and freedom in the Great / European War 1914-1919 / [names] / Grant them O Lord eternal rest / and let light perpetual / shine upon them

WW1 4

238 St Luke’s Chapel, Leicester Royal Infirmary

55082 WW2 Metal plaque with incised lettering in frame.

In memory of / members of the Infirmary / clerical staff who died / on active service / in the Second World War / [Names] / 1939-1945

WW2 6

239 Great Hall, Clarence House

55093 WW1 Rectangular bronze plaque with badge of school at tablet head and raised lettering. Info provided by Brian Screaton December 2011 (Treasurer of Wyvernians): ‘Clarence House used to be the home of the City Boys’ School until it moved to new premises on Downing Drive in 1965. The memorial boards were moved from Clarence House to Downing Drive at that time, but eventually were taken down. They were found a few years ago in the boiler room in a very poor state, by a former pupil of the school. Through an appeal to the ‘Wyvernians’ organisation of former City Boys’ pupils funds were raised to repair and refurbish the boards, which had been vandalised. The Wyvernians have an annual reunion at Clarence House, now the home of Age Concern. We approached Age Concern with a view to re-erecting the boards in their original home in the Great Hall. We were delighted when they not only accepted, but provided the labour to re-fit them, free of charge. We had a service of re-dedication conducted by the Rev. Gerald Rimmington, himself a former City Boy, about three years ago. The WW1 board relates to the Newarke school, which was amalgamated with the City Boys

To honour the memory of / the following boys of / the Newarke School / who fell in the Great War / 1914-1918 / [Names] / "Exegi monumentum aere perennius"

Victor Palmer Bosworth (1912-1914) Rifleman, The King’s Royal Rifles.1917 Bertie Gilbert Boulter (1913-1915) Private, The West Yorkshire Regiment. 1918 Alfred Ernest Chambers M.C. (1908-1912) Lieutenant, The Royal Fusiliers. 1918 Arthur Harold Dunkley (1911-1913) Private, the Durham Light Infantry, 1918 Arthur Hyslop Gascoigne (1912-1915) Private, The King’s Liverpool Regiment. 1918 Walter Rudolph Howard (1910-1913) Trooper, The Leicestershire Yeomanry. 1916 Carl Owen Jordan (1908-1912) Private, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1916 Ronald Anderson Kerr (1911-1912) Private, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1917 Sidney George Marston (1908-1914) Private, The London Scottish. 1916 Lionel Nichols (1909-1913) Signaller, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1917 William Duncan Squires (1909-1912) Corporal, R.F.A. 1916 Eric Rowland Thomas (1909-1911) 2nd Lieutenant, The Cheshire Regiment. 1917 Frank Meredith Tompson (1908-1914) Private, The Seaforth Highlanders. 1917




School in the 1920’s. There are 14 names on the plaque – please see the list on our website which is http://www.wyvernians.org.uk - under ‘Latest News’. The WW2 board is headed by the City Boys’ school badge – A Wyvern and the school motto – In conatu labor. Please see our “Wyvernians” website as above.’ Brian Screaton, Treasurer : Wyvernians.

Herbert John Toon (1908-1911) Lance-Corporal, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1915

240 Great Hall, Clarence House

55094 WW2 Wooden board headed by badge depicting a Wyvern and the motto “In conatu labor”. Inscription painted in gold. Info provided by Brian Screaton December 2011 (Treasurer of Wyvernians): ‘Clarence House used to be the home of the City Boys’ School until it moved to new premises on Downing Drive in 1965. The memorial boards were moved from Clarence House to Downing Drive at that time, but eventually were taken down. They were found a few years ago in the boiler room in a very poor state, by a former pupil of the school. Through an appeal to the ‘Wyvernians’ organisation of former City Boys’ pupils funds were raised to repair and refurbish the boards, which had been vandalised. The Wyvernians have an annual reunion at Clarence House, now the home of Age Concern. We approached Age Concern with a view to re-erecting the boards in their original home in the Great Hall. We were delighted when they not only accepted, but provided the labour to re-fit them, free of charge. We had a service of re-dedication conducted by the Rev. Gerald Rimmington, himself a former City Boy, about three years ago. The WW1 board relates to the Newarke school, which was amalgamated with the City Boys School in the 1920’s. There are 14 names on the plaque – please see the list on our website which is http://www.wyvernians.org.uk - under ‘Latest News’. The WW2 board is headed by the City Boys’ school badge – A Wyvern and the school motto – In conatu labor. Please see our “Wyvernians” website as above.’ Brian Screaton, Treasurer : Wyvernians.

“In conatu labor” / In memory of the old boys of / the City Boys' School / who died in the War / 1939-1945 / [Names]

Roy Addison Thomas Merrill Adlard Gordon Derrick Barnes Bertie Arthur Beeby Roland Horace Bellamy Ben Bingley Clifford Willson Brant Frank Thomas Bown Roy Callis Ronald Victor Collington Leonard Court Benjamin Cox Harold Day Alan Dockerty Leonard Norman Drake Charles Frederick Ellis John Elton Henry Flavill John Horace Fletcher Kenneth Gamble John James Garner William Henry Glover Thomas Francis Michael Gowan Thomas Henry Grain Edward Francis Gregory Donald Leigh Griffiths Reginald Gordon Ashton Hand Philip Arthur Healy Edwin Henry Herbert Claude Lionel Geoffrey Hood Ronald Arthur Horton Kenneth William Hughes Alec John Jackson Cecil Tom Keates Tom William Kempin Maurice Henry Knowles Frederick Arthur Lancaster Leslie Thomas Lewin Douglas Charles Lord Cyril Walter Lovell Frederick Arthur Ernest Marshall Eric Anthony Martin Thomas William Mayes Angus John McDonnell John Edward Moss Philip Henry Moulton Harry Kenneth Mundin Harry Stockton Murby David Robert Neal Ernest Roy Neal Thomas Norman Vincent Edward Norman




Brian Preston Frank Leslie Reynolds Ronald James Reynolds Sydney Riddington Edward Bonsor Riley Herbert Arthur Roberts Ronald Albert Rudkin Samuel Ivan Rudkin Thomas Herbert Saunders Denis William Sharpe Graham Frederick Simpkin Leo Lawrence Simpson Douglas Frank Smart Horace James Worthing Smith John Bryan Smith Philip Standley Smith Roland Tom Smith Wilfred Henry Speke Donald Edward Staniforth Leonard George Stone John Derrick Thompson Raymond Frere Waterman Vincent Owen Weston John Harold Wilson Norman Yates



Unknown type of memorial Deo Gloria / in loving memory of / Frederick Fenton Parkinson / Lt Colonel Army Pay Dept / Formerly Captain / 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment / Son of / Major General / Charles Frederick Parkinson / Captain 87th & 73rd Regiments / born 13th January 1844 / died while stationed at Singapore / 30th May 1902 / Erected by his widow and son

Frederick Fenton Parkinson / Lt Colonel Army Pay Dept



Unknown type of memorial In memory of / Major General / John Michael Kane Spurling CB CBE DSO / the Royal Leicestershire Regiment / 1927-1958 / Deputy Colonel the Royal Anglian Regiment / 1965-1976 / Died 23rd January 1980 - age 73

Major General / John Michael Kane Spurling CB CBE DSO / the Royal Leicestershire Regiment



Unknown type of memorial In memory / Lieutenant Arthur Leghorn Thomson / The Leicestershire Regiment / killed in action at Breda / West Africa on the 26th January 1897 / this monument erected by his brother / officers who unit (sic) in lamenting the lost (sic) of / a gallent (sic) officer and valued friend

Lieutenant Arthur Leghorn Thomson / The Leicestershire Regiment


55098 WW1 South chapel with wooden panelling. Unknown None

245 Holy Trinity Church

55097 WW2 Stone tablet set in white and brown veined marble surround, with black lettering and names in single column.

In honoured memory of those who gave / their lives in the World War 1939-1945 / [names] / "I have fought a good fight." / 2 Tim IV 7

WW2 4

246 Leicester Royal Infirmary

55095 WW1 Endowed hospital bed Unknown Unknown

247 Holy Trinity Church

55096 WW1 Stone tablet set in white and brown veined marble surround, with black lettering and names in two columns.

In honoured memory of those who heroically faced / and endured death in the Great War 1914-1918 / [names] / "More than conquerors through him that loved us" / Romans VIII 37

WW1 24

248 St Augustine’s Church

37759 WW1 Two framed and glazed handwritten rolls of honour with one holding dedicatory inscription at top. In closed church.

To the Glory of God and in honour / of the men who served in the War 1914 – 18 / The Roll of Honour of St Augustine's Church, Leicester / [names]

WW1 352

249 Jungle Club 55129 WW2 Roll of honour in wooden frame, with names of fallen inscribed in open book enclosed by laurel wreath, flanked by silhouettes of two soldiers. Names of

Roll of Honour / Belgrave / and District / Working Mens Club and Institute / who served in HM Forces during the Second World War 1939-45. / [Names] / and herein is / recorded the / names

WW2 18 (+ 490)




those who served in two scrolls flanking book, each in four columns. Decorative border of leaf and flower design and centre has battle scene with soldier, sailor and airman and planes, ships and artillery. Formerly Belgrave Working Men’s Club

of our / members who / did not return / They paid the / supreme sacrifice / It was their / greatest hour and / they died that we / shall live. We will / remember / [Names] / "There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England”


55115 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / Also Private Sydney Amatt RAMC / Son of the above / killed in action Dec 1st 1917 / aged 23 years / Interred in St Jean Ypres

Private Sydney Amatt RAMC


55116 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / Joseph C Calvert, / who died Jany 24th 1898 / aged 58 years / --- memory of the just is blessed / Also of Maria / beloved wife of the above / who died Jany 31st 1914 / aged 72 years / Also Elizabeth Calvert / who died Decr 6th 1947 / aged 73 years / wife of Russell Calvert / who died May 28th 1954 / aged 83 years / In loving memory of / Pte Cecil Calvert KLR / grandson of the above / killed in action in France June 11th 1918 / aged 19 years / Loved by all who knew him

Pte Cecil Calvert KLR


55117 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In / loving memory of / Captain Arthur Charles Cooper / 4th Leicestershire Regiment / Third son of E Franklin Cooper / Born 29th Novr 1875: / killed in action on service with / The British expeditionary force / May 16th 1915: / Interred in the Soldier's Cemetery Lindenhoek, Belgium.

Captain Arthur Charles Cooper / 4th Leicestershire Regiment


55106 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / Also Pte GHC Almey / Connaught Rangers / died of wounds and heat stroke / July 25th 1917 aged 32 years / Buried at Dialah, Mesopotamia / ...

Pte GHC Almey / Connaught Rangers


55105 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Grave ref. UD 0013.

In memory of / Flight Lieutenant Charles Mackenzie Lester / killed May 9th 1940

Flight Lieutenant Charles Mackenzie Lester

255 The Chapel, Saffron Hill Cemetery

50898 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with three panels bearing dedication in gold lettering above and below name panels, and wooden columns on plinth to either side. Previously at St Saviour’s Church

In honour of Christ crucified, and in thankful remembrance of the / men of this congregation and parish who fell in the Great War / This chapel is dedicated by the worshippers in the church / Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends / [Names] / Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord / let light perpetual shine upon them

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19210 WW1 Brass plaque with vine border and engraved black lettering on marble backboard.

In loving memory of / Private Edward Walker 55th MGC / born Aug 25 1891 Fell in action in France Aug 10 1917 / aged 26 years / Also Corpl William Harry Walker 2nd West Yorkshire Regt / Born Jan 31 1894 fell in action in France Aug 17 1918 / aged 24 years / "Their duty nobly done"

Private Edward Walker 55th MGC Corpl William Harry Walker 2nd West Yorkshire Regt


55118 WW1 Addition to family gravestone Pte David Watson Daisley / killed in action in France / April 24th 1916 / aged 33 years

Pte David Watson Daisley


55119 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / also Frederick Bernard beloved son died of wounds in France 18th Nov 1917 aged 19 years

Frederick Bernard


37725 WW1 Addition to black marble family gravestone

... / Cpl George Herbert Thacker / (1st/4th Leicestershire Regt) / who died November 7th 1918 / aged 22 years / ...

Cpl George Herbert Thacker / (1st/4th Leicestershire Regt)

260 St Mark’s Church

37758 WW1 Wooden board with carved border and painted inscription. Church closed.

RIP / To the Glory of God / 1914 and 1918 / in grateful memory of the men who fell / in the Great War / [names] / Jesu mercy

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55123 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / John Henry Potter / died Sep 26th 1948 aged 88 years / Also Sarah Jane

John Thomas Potter




/ his beloved wife / died March 25th 1946 aged 81 years / also John Thomas Potter their son / fell in action in France / Oct 2nd 1918 aged 19 years / also Susan Wesson / died Jan 24th 1947 aged 88 years


55122 WW2 Addition to family gravestone Sydney Howard Hichens / 1906-1944 / Killed in action on service on Belgium

Sydney Howard Hichens


55120 WW2 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / Flight Sgt Pilot / Trevor Gordon Franklin / Killed over Germany May 21st / May 22nd 1944 aged 24 years

Flight Sgt Pilot / Trevor Gordon Franklin


55121 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / William Gimson / born May 20th 1845 / Died May 26th 1930 / Also / Martha Gimson / Born December 2nd 1853 / died November --- 1923 / Also / Capt Walter Stanley Gimson MC / son of the above / born March 3rd 1885 killed in action Aug 18th 1917 / buried at Boesinghe / …

Capt Walter Stanley Gimson MC

265 Great Meeting House

55371 WW1 Bronze wall plaque with slim decorative frieze around all edges and raised lettering in centre. Dedication at top with three sections for separate family members. Embossed wreath at bottom centre.

In loving remembrance of / three devoted members of the great meeting / Edgar Franklin / Cooper / born 24th September 1833 / Died 25th February 1916 / Lifelong worshipper / Sometime treasurer / and chairman / of this congregation / Mary Jane / Cooper / his wife / born 27th December 1836 / died 7th September 1911 / Arthur Charles / Cooper / their third son / born 29th November 1875 / Killed in Belgium 16th May / 1915 / Captain 4th Battalion / Leicestershire Regiment / An earnest worker in the / school and mission.

Arthur Charles / Cooper


55104 WW2 Pair of matching wooden candlesticks with painted red, green, blue, yellow and gold decorations and inscription in gold lettering at base. Features initials CD (Civil Defence) with crown above.

To the / Glory of God / & in memory / of Warden / W Pratt / & members / of this / parish who / lost their / lives thro' / enemy / action on / 19 Nov 1940

267 Robert Hall Memorial Church

57975 WW2 Bronze plaque with cross oak leaves between inscription and names, with decorative raised edging.

Honoured memory of / the men of this Church / who gave their lives in / the World War 1939-1945 / [names] / …

WW2 13

268 Robert Hall Memorial Church

57978 WW1 Bronze plaque with decorative edging. To the Glory of God / and in affectionate and grateful memory / of forty-three sons of this church and / its institutions who fell in the Great War / August 1914 - November 1918 / [names] / They counted not their lives dear unto themselves so / that they might finish their course with joy

WW1 43

269 Freemason’s Hall

55379 WW2 Bronze tablet with slightly raised edges and embossed lettering. Dedication to top, decoration to each side of date figures.

In memory of five brethren / who fell in the War / 1939 – 1946 / [names]

WW2 5

270 Great Meeting House

55373 WW1 Horizontal nowy headed sandstone tablet with laurel wreath at head. Centre has slate plaque with white lettering and names in three columns, standing on small decorative shelf of light coloured stone.

To commemorate / the service of members and sons and daughters of / members of the chapel, Sunday schools and mission in / the War Of 1914 – 1919 / The following met death whilst serving in the forces / [Names] / In loving and thankful memory / They were a wall of defence

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271 Freemason’s Hall

55377 WW1 Elaborate rectangular wood and metal memorial featuring Freemason Heraldic Crest, two niches containing metal allegorical figures and sword device in centre pointing downwards. Dedication and casualty names above sword, names of those who served in four columns arranged to either side of sword.

To The / Glory of God / and in memory of the seven Brethren / who fell in the Great War / 1914 – 1918 / [Names] / The following brethren served / [Names]

WW1 7 (+ 158)


55103 WW2 Unbound book of remembrance with front page showing an image of a

The / Church / of The / Holy Saviour / World War II / Our fallen / So they passed over and all the /

WW2 36




knight with a sword and emblem of City of Leicester at bottom of page. Handwritten lettering with some illumination. Names are listed overleaf, with at least six added in afterwards. May have suffered from damp at some stage.

trumpets sounded for them / on the other side / [Names]

273 Christ Church United Reform Church

57981 Non-Specific Conflict

Roll of Honour Unknown NSC 11


55101 WW2 Wooden memorial screen marking entrance to memorial chapel with gold lettering and associated metal plaque on left hand side.

Screen: Memorial Chapel This screen and panelling was the gift of / William Simpson Leake / to the Glory of God and in memory of / his wife Ada and his son James William / April 21st 1963

WW2 1


55102 WW1 Ornate brass crucifix with inscription around base.

In memoriam William C Goldby Killed in action Aug 22nd 1918

William C Goldby


55124 WW1 Addition to gravestone In loving memory of / William Stevenson / died Jan 4th 1930 / aged 71 years / Also Harold AE Stevenson / son of the above / killed in action at Ypres Sep 28th 1918 / ...

Harold AE Stevenson


55125 WW1 Addition to gravestone In loving memory / William H Throsby / Bombardier Signaller Leicestershire RHA / who died of gas shell wounds / at 46 casualty clearing station Belgium / November 19th 1917 age 25 / interred in Provenne Military Cemetery / He was never found wanting / Also of William Throsby / --- / Winifred Throsby / ---

William H Throsby / Bombardier Signaller Leicestershire RHA

278 St Mark’s Church

57986 Non Specific Conflict

Peace Memorial Window. In the middle light, Christ in His crown of thorns is with a soldier in the Somme Valley; the rest of the glass symbolises the righteous hopes of man and his struggle to be free. A Kaffir, a priest, a Free Church minister, a girl with arms full of flowers, and a statesman holding the Covenant of the League (of Nations) are grouped on one side; on the other is a boy and girl symbolising higher education for the poor and a woman with her arms free from chains.

Unknown


57988 WW1 Flanders Battlefield Cross Unknown WW1 1


57985 WW1 Wooden altar reredos which has a carved inscription in gold at the base and is ornately carved and painted.

To the Glory of God and in memory of Guy Edward Frank Russell who fell in action in France October 13th 1915

Guy Edward Frank Russell


50796 Boer 2 (SA) Brass plaque Pte Howard Killed in action in South Africa 26 May 1901

Pte Howard

282 Zion Chapel - WW1 Black stone exterior plaque with segmented pediment.

In loving memory of / the young men of Zion Chapel / and Sunday School / who lost their lives in the / Great War 1914-1818 / [names] / “The Lord gave / and the Lord hath taken away / Blessed be the name of the Lord”

G Percy Adams John T Langton Fred Munnings Alfred Ofield Thomas Parker Ernest Pitts

Yes

283 Seventh Day Adventist Church

- WW1 Tall stone octagonal column on octagonal plinth with lantern at head. Whole on large octagonal base. Inscription around plinth.

In grateful memory / of the men who died / Great War 1914-19 / Their names / are recorded within / the church

Yes

284 Town Hall Square

- WW1 Temporary memorial since replaced by Lutyens memorial in Victoria Park in 1925. Unveiled 28/6/1917 by Duke of Rutland, demolished April 1954.

Unknown WW1 ? Yes - need clearer image

http://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p15407coll2,23






Postcard held; footage in webpage link shows image of memorial at c. 8.50 mins

285 Castle Gardens - Wars of the Roses

Metal statue of Richard III by James Walter Butler RA from 1980s. Richard stands in dramatic pose holding crown and sword atop a rough piece of granite, on a square pediment bearing metal plaques.

Richard III / King of England / 1483 1485 / Killed Bosworth / 22 August 1485 / Piteously slain fighting manfully / in the thickest press of his enemies / Buried in Leicester

Richard III / King of England / 1483 1485 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/growth-and-history/statuesandsculpture/kingrichardthird/ http://www.richardiii.net/

286 Grey Friars - Wars of the Roses

Square metal / slate plaque with image of burial on left and inscription in white on right. Richard’s insignia is towards the bottom of the inscription.

Near this site stood the / Church of the Greyfriars / where the body of Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England / was interred after his death, aged 32, / at the Battle of Bosworth Field / 22 August 1485 / Requiescat in pace / This memorial was erected by the Richard III Society 1990

Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/growth-and-history/blueplaques/blueplaquespeople/richardiii/

287 Richard III Road

- Wars of the Roses

Metal plaque renewed 2005. Inscription in white; Richard III’s white boar at head.

This plaque, originally erected by Mr B Broadbent in 1856 / on the nearby site of the Austin Friars, / records the 17th century tradition, now generally / discredited, that at the dissolution of the monasteries / the body of King Richard III / was disinterred from his tomb at the Greyfriars in Leicester / and thrown into the River Soar / Richard III Society 2005

King Richard III http://www.richardiii.net/cc%2021st.htm


- WW1 Battlefield cross with metal strips for inscription.

IW-- / 1 - 19 / Capt G (Rolph) / -/- Leicesters / -----

Capt G (Rolph) Yes - unclear


- WW1 Unusual carved battlefield cross with round plaque on front

Lieut ACNML De Lisle / ---- JAD RFC / 20.11.17 / RIP

Lieut ACNML De Lisle Yes - unclear

290 St Stephens URC

- WW1; WW2 Bronze plaque commemorating men of the Seaforth Highlanders from Leicestershire.

Unknown Unknown

291 St Stephens URC

- WW1 Roll of Honour commemorating men of the Seaforth Highlanders from Leicestershire killed in action, listing names and service numbers.

Unknown WW1 ?

292 St Stephens URC

- WW2 Roll of Honour commemorating men of the Seaforth Highlanders from Leicestershire killed in action, listing names and service numbers.

Unknown WW2 ?

293 Mayflower Methodist Church

- WW2 Portable reading desk. Moved in 1958 when original church bombed and new rebuilt. Paid for by his parents. Good condition. Data from E Orbell.

In loving memory of Thomas Herbert Saunders 23-3-1920 – 29-10-1940 of SAXE and RAF

Thomas Herbert Saunders Yes

294 Chapel of St Anne, St Mary’s

- WW1 Chapel of Remembrance? From Kelly’s Directory.

Unknown Unknown

295 Working Men’s Club, Newfoundpool

- Unknown Memorial plaque - details unknown Details from JT Aspland.

Unknown Unknown

296 Wesley Hall Methodist Church

- WW1 Memorial plaque. In grateful remembrance of our glorious dead JF Asbury E Asbury T Bembridge F Callis E Calvert WH Clarke T Cramp JW Green H Henson F Hobell R Howard A Hutchinson FW Leeson

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/growth-and-history/statuesandsculpture/kingrichardthird/




http://www.richardiii.net/

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/growth-and-history/blueplaques/blueplaquespeople/richardiii/




http://www.richardiii.net/cc 21st.htm

http://www.richardiii.net/cc 21st.htm




F Preston C Smart J Start BR Thornton F Warren WA West E Wood FW Willoughby WV Wickens

297 Towers Hospital

Nowy headed bronze wall plaque with city crest in head, within main reception area. Previously taken down when area decorated but reinstated after complaint made. Trust due to dispose of buildings.

Leicester City Mental Hospital / In memory of the members of the staff of this / hospital who fell in the Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names] / The following also served / [names] / “The men were very good unto us and we were not hurt. They were a wall unto us both by day and night”

Fell: Male Nurse GJ Bradley at Neuve Chapelle 10 Mar 1915 Male Nurse A Burrows at Guedycourt 25 Sept 1916 Male Nurse SJ Ingram near Rheims 27 May 1918 Served: Dr J Francis Dixon Medical Superintendent Dr CH Gibson Lyall Senior Asst Medical Officer Dr E Coomber Hobbs 2nd Asst Medical Officer Mr WJ Barre Asst Clerk and Steward Mr Wilfred Grundy Storekeeper Miss E Brodie Matron Male Nurse GH Topham Male Nurse JR Atkins Male Nurse AC Chapman Male Nurse AM Pratten Male Nurse GS Smith Male Nurse JT Salisbury Male Nurse WC Jones Male Nurse P Moore Male Nurse EH Hyde Male Nurse A Atkinson Male Nurse WH Goddard Male Nurse H Smith Male Nurse RW Seaton Male Nurse H Martin Male Nurse W Russell Male Nurse G Hill Male Nurse T Borton Male Nurse SH Matthews Male Nurse GG Goodman Male Nurse B Cropley Male Nurse HE Lea Male Nurse WO Hernon Carter F Kenney Garden Labour HT Knowles Stoker CJ Colver Stores Porter F Bird Tailor G Faker


- WW2 Paper Roll of Service with decorative border bearing coat of arms. May be suffering from damp.

S Barnabas’ Church / [---] / Roll of Service / of men and women serving in HM Forces / 1939 – 1945 / [Latin phrase?] / [names]

WW2 63 Yes - DK


- WW1 Recast at John Taylor’s Loughborough Bell Foundry

Recast in 1921 in memory of W Quinton Lander, Cpl, 4th Leicesters, who fell at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, October 13, 1915

W Quinton Lander, Cpl, 4th Leicesters http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Bell-recast-dedicated-fallen-soldier/article-2920553-detail/article.html

300 Quorn Grange Centre

- Spanish Civil War (1936-

1939)

Statue and memorial terrace garden dedicated by GPMU print union on 5 November 2002 to four printworkers.

(Journalist Ralph Fox who died at Cordoba on 28 December 1936 Machine minder George Hardy who was killed by sniper fire on 31 March 1938 Leslie Maugham, a readers assistant killed by a sniper at Teruel on 14 January 1938 Journalist Walter Tapsell who was killed in action on 31 March 1938)

http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/IBMT%202003_1.pdf


- WW1; WW2 Squared Stone of Remembrance of white granite.

IN MEMORY OF ALL THE PEOPLE / FROM THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT / AFRICA AND THE CARRIBEAN / WHO DIED IN BOTH

None Yes - LCC

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Bell-recast-dedicated-fallen-soldier/article-2920553-detail/article.html




http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/IBMT 2003_1.pdf






WORLD WARS DEFENDING THIS LAND / AND YOUR LOVE SHALL OFFER MEMORIAL THANKS / TO THE COMRADES WHO FOUGHT IN YOUR DAUNTLESS RANKS / AND YOU HONOUR THE DEEDS OF THE DEATHLESS ONES / REMEMBER THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYRED SONS! / FROM “THE GIFT OF INDIA” SAROJINI NAIDU 1915


- WW1; WW2 Squared Stone of Remembrance of white granite.

IN MEMORY OF ALL LEICESTER’S PEOPLE / AND THEIR LOVED ONES FROM BRITAIN / THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER COUNTRIES / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THIS LAND / IN WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II / AND OTHER CONFLICTS ACROSS THE WORLD / WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY / FOR YOUR TOMORROW, WE GAVE OUR TODAY

None Yes - LCC


- WW2 Tree or Avenue; Tablet or Plaque or Board - metal plaque on wooden post in niche in hedge on Peace Walk, adjacent to associated cherry tree. Paper cranes are often hung in the tree on the anniversary of the bombings.

LEICESTER PEACE ACTION GROUP / “THIS TREE, ORIGINALLY PLANTED TO MARK THE / 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR BOMBING / OF THE JAPANESE CITIES OF HIROSHIMA AND / NAGASAKI, WAS REDEDICATED ON 19TH / AUGUST 1995 AS PART OF THE THEME “PEACE / AND RECONCILIATION” ADOPTED BY THE / LEICESTER PEACE ACTION GROUP FOR THE / COMMEMORATION OF THE END OF THE SECOND / WORLD WAR AND IN THE RESOLVE THAT NEVER / AGAIN WILL MASS DESTRUCTION BE / PERPETRATED IN THE NAME OF PEACE”

None Yes - LCC

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Hiroshima-remembered/story-13120613-detail/story.html





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