Cossall
St Catherine

War Memorial

Just inside the churchyard a few metres to the left and right of the lych gate are two war memorials. On the left stands a memorial to the fallen of the First World War and Second World War, and on the right stands a memorial to three men who fought at Waterloo.

First and Second World Wars

Holbrook & Co. of Eastwood made the memorial and an invoice for £168 2s. 6d. was addressed to Mr J Robinson, Honorary Secretary of the Cossall Memorial Committee and paid on 8th October 1920.

The upper part of the monument is an obelisk mounted on a pedestal and blocks all in white marble 5.75 metres high on a base of granite. On the main side of the obelisk, carved in relief is a soldier’s peaked cap, a sword with sash, a wreath of laurel and a branch of oak leaves and acorns.

The memorial reads:

TO
THE GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE BRAVE LADS OF
THIS PARISH WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918

Their name liveth for evermore

On face one:

HORACE BUSH.
5TH SHERWOODS.

THOMAS EDWIN JOHNSON.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

ARTHUR KITCHEN.
TRAINING RESERVE.

FRED LANE.
K.O.Y.L.I.

JOHN WILLIAM MARSDEN.
KINGS ROYAL RIFLES

On face two:

JOHN MANGAN.
ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION.

WILLIAM NASH.
SCOTS GUARDS.

HEZEKIAH SCATTERGOOD.
ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION.

JOHN WILFRED SEVERN.
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.

On face three:

JOSEPH BENJAMIN SMITH.
ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

FREDERICK SMITH.
RIFLE BRIGADE.

HARRY SMITH.
LINCOLNS.

GEORGE JACKSON SPENCER.
NOTTS & DERBYS

Second World War

On the next level on the face side of the memorial reads:

ALSO IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR
1939 – 1945

On face one:

D.E. SISSON. A.T.S.

W.E. GREGORY. LINCS. REGT.

H.INSTONE. S. STAFFS.

J.V. CAVE. R.A.

R. HITT. R.N.

On face two:

E. MARTIN. NORTHANTS REGT.

J.F.STRAW. NORTHANTS REGT.

L. WALTERS. MERCHANT NAVY.

D. MALLETT. R.A.F.

W.L. SMITH. R.N.

On face three:

A. SHELDON. R.A.
W. M. TRUEMAN.
R. WITTS.
J. MUMFORD. R.M.

Waterloo

The monument sits on a base of stone and consists of an octagonal column of white marble encircled by a laurel wreath, topped with a carved leaf finial. The column sits on a chamfered block and square base all in white marble 3.5 metres high. At the base of the monument, also in white marble, is a carved plumed helmet, breastplate and crossed sabres of a Life Guardsman.

The inscription reads:

WATERLOO

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED

TO THE MEMORY OF

JOHN SHAW &

RICHARD WAPLINGTON,

OF THE

LIFE GUARDS,

AND

THOMAS WHEATLEY,

OF THE

LIGHT DRAGOON GUARDS,

WHO LEFT THEIR NATIVE HOME

IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY,

THE TWO FORMER GLORIOUSLY

FELL AT WATERLOO, THE LATTER

RETURNED, AND LIES BURIED IN

THIS CHURCH

YARD.

VALOUR

The IIkeston Pioneer reported in June 1875 of an appeal to raise funds for a memorial to the memory of the three Waterloo men. It was proposed that funds raised were to be received by the family and friends of the men for the memorial. A further article appeared in the Nottingham Express in June 1877, and it seems that the fund raising required the help of prominent members of the district including: The Duke of Cambridge, Earl Cowper, Earl Manvers, Lord Middleton, Lord Newark and Lancelot Rolleston. The sum of over £100 was raised in a very short space of time. On 18th June 1877 Lancelot Rolleston, High Sheriff of Nottingham, unveiled the monument.

Roll of Honour 1939-1945

Inside the church in the north aisle on the north wall, in between the two windows, is a mahogany display case containing an illustrated Roll of Honour dedicated to the men and women of the parish of Cossall who served and those who made the supreme sacrifice during the 1939-1945 World War.

ROLL OF HONOUR

DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PARISH OF COSSALL
WHO SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 -1945
AND TO THE IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

THE FALLEN