Clumber Park
St Mary

War Memorial

War Memorial in the Chapel

This is reported as originally being fitted on a wooden stand to the exterior of the building area and was brought inside and fitted on the south facing column wall of the south transept passage sometime after the clearance of the chapel by the National Trust following its use as a warehouse during the deconstruction of the main house.

The War Memorial Roll is painted on the inside of the left hand door of the wood stained tabernacle and includes names from both World Wars.

Albones, Fred 
Gascoigne, Fredrick J
Tarr, John
Tomlinson, Aylmer
Carter, George
Tree, Robert  
Cowley, Herbert
Knight, Frank
Spyve, John
Welbourne, C.
Read, John
Rose, George
Merrills, Thomas
Whittaker, George
Schmidt, Rudolf
Lenon, William
Wilson, H. Charles
Cobb, George
Harrington, David
Pole, Reginald 
Read, George
Tideswell, Cyril
Allison, John W.
Hill, Frank

Estate Calvary Monument

The Estate Calvary Monument is positioned at the northern edge of the estate village of Hardwick and the names have obviously a considerable similarity.

OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR
OF THOSE OUR COUNTRYMEN &
IN THE GREAT WAR ESPECIALLY
CLUMBER ESTATE WHOSE

 

THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS
ALLIES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
REMEMBERING THOSE OF THE
NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED

 

FRED ALBONES
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
GEORGE CARTER
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
HERBERT COWLEY
ROYAL IRISH RIFLES
ROBERT MALCOLM TREE
MANCHESTER REGIMENT
FREDERICK J. GASCOIGNE
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
FRANK HILL
ROYAL ENGINEERS
FRANK KNIGHT
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
WILLIAM COOK LENNON
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
THOMAS MERRILLS
SHERWOOD FORESTERS

 

REST ETERNAL
GRANT UNTO THEM
O LORD
AND LET LIGHT
PERPETUAL
SHINE UPON THEM
AMEN

 

JOHN READ
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
GEORGE ROSE
YORKS & LANCASHIRES
RICHARD SMITH
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
CECIL JOHN SPYVE
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
JOHN WILLIAM TARR
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
AYLMER E. TOMLINSON
LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRES
CHARLES H. WILSON
SHERWOOD FORESTERS
GEORGE WHITAKER
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
CECIL WELBOURNE
ROYAL ENGINEERS

 

AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN WORLD WAR II AND ESPECIALLY REMEMBERING

JOHN W ALLISON
ROYAL AIR FORCE
GEORGE A. COBB
ROYAL ARTILLERY
DAVID HARRINGTON
ROYAL AIR FORCE

 

REGINALD R. POLE
ROYAL AIR FORCE
GEORGE READ
KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
CYRIL W. TIDESWELL
ROYAL MARINES

 

 

The Calvary Monument was designed by W.E. Tower of London and constructed by the architectural sculptor and modeller, William Drinkwater Gough, a Canadian based in Lambeth, London. It is not clear if the commission came by recommendation from Ninian Comper who also worked on the chapel.

This ‘Calvary’ memorial was finally Blessed on September 25th, 1918.

Whilst an additional memorials have been added to the centre and lower front of the Magnesium Limestone structure, no other alterations have been made.

The names recorded are, as stated, generally repeated on the memorial tabernacle Roll. However one name is different, that of Robert Smith, who joined the Sherwood Foresters Regiment.

Robert Smith was the name he informally adopted; his baptismal name was Rudolph Schmidt, and perhaps owing to the strength of feeling against ‘German’ sounding names he adopted the new one. Rudolph was born in France in 1884, the son of Anna Karolina Schmidt who was born in Zurich, Switzerland.

Following the death of his mother in 1890, ‘Dolph’ as he was commonly called, was fostered to several families linked to the Estates, both here and abroad. Whilst at Clumber he regularly attended the chapel where he became a boy acolyte and later in 1911, the adult thurifer.

It will be observed that Algenon Sidney Osborne Sweet, chorister in this chapel during 1897, who became Chaplin on HMS Natal and perished when the ship sank following an explosion on December 30th, 1915, is not listed on any of the above memorials but has a separate memorial plaque in the choir.