Finningley
Holy Trinity & St Oswald

War Memorial

The war memorials are mounted on the south wall of the nave.

A wooden plaque from the chapel at RAF Finningley. It was donated to the church when the RAF base closed in 1995. At the top of the plaque is the Royal Air Forge badge with a quotation from Isaiah 40:31 below:

THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD
SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH
THEY SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS
AS EAGLES

Immediately below the RAF plaque is a brass plaque commemorating the men of the parish who were killed in the Second World War:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE OF FINNINGLEY
AUCKLEY AND BLAXTON WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 – 1945
***

Dennis Brownbridge    

Anthony Mullican

Harold Hartley

    

John Nundy

Matthew Bean Holden

    

Arthur Philips

T. Kilcoyne

    

E.R. Sweetman

 

    

T.C. Winters

Underneath the middle window in the south wall is a brass plaque to the fallen of the First World War:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1919.

W.C. ANDREW  

J. HARDWICK

A. BAMFORD

  

W. HARDWICK

L. BROWN

  

C.A. HOYLE

J. CHADBURN

  

C. MASSEY

H. CHIPP

  

G.W. PRIEST

G. CROFT

  

H. RAWSON

C. DRINKALL

  

J. REYNOLDS

J.N. FORSTER

  

T.A. TROOP

F. GARNETT

  

W. TURNER

R. GODLEY

  

A. WALL

W. GODLEY

  

E.A. WRIGHT

R.I.P.

Information on the men listed on the monument can be found on the Nottinghamshire Roll of Honour website.

In addition, the east window commemorates parishioners who died in the First World War and those who returned.