Gedenktekens St Peter's Church Stourton

St Peter's Church Stourton bevat 3 gedenkplaten

"IN MEMORY
OF CAPTAIN HENRY COLT ARTHUR HOARE
ONLY SON OF SIR HENRY HUGH ARTHUR HOARE
OF STOURHEAD WAVENDON AND OXENHAM BART
AND OF ALDA HIS WIFE"

Geboren in Wavenden op 30 juli 1888, kreeg hij onderwijs aan Harrow en Trinity College Cambridge en trad in augustus 1914 toe tot de Dorset Yeomanry. Hij diende in de Gallipoli- en Palestina-campagnes, raakte op 15 november gewond bij Mughair Ridge en stierf aan zijn verwondingen op 19 december 1917 in het Raseltin-ziekenhuis in Alexandrië, waar hij rust op de Hadra New Military Cemetery.

Deze tablet is opgericht door zijn vader en moeder ter nagedachtenis aan de beste zonen.
'Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
Or knock the breast. no wealness, no contempt,
Dispraise or blame- nothing but well and fair:
And what may quiet us in a death so noble"

"To the Memory of
FRANCIS JOHN WETHERED
B.A. Oxon

Of Castle Orchard, Stourton,
Son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Owen Wethered C.M.G
of Marlow and of Margaret
his wife, daughter of John
Maximilian Dyer M.A.. Born
27 April 1918, He lost his life in
the service of his country and
the British Council through
enemy action at sea on
7th December 1942, aged 24

'A righteous man though he die before
his time shall be at rest' Wisdom 4.V.7."

"A GOOD LIFE BUT A GOOD NAME
HATH BUT A FEW DAYS ENDURETH FOREVER

Capt. Henry Colt Arthur Hoare Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
Corporal Frederick Broomfield Dorset Regt
Pte Wm. Thomas Chaldecott Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Pte Wm, H. Creene Duke of Cornwall's Lt I.
Pte Wm. J. Green Royal Marine Lt I.
Sapper Hubert Thomas Keevil Royal Engineers
Pte Thomas Joseph Keevil Royal Warwickshire Regt
Pte Robert George Maidment South Wales Borderers
Pte Jack Pine Dorset Regt
Pte Edgar Eustace Watson Royal Warwickshire Regt
1914-1919

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