East Drayton St Peter

War Memorial

The Fallen

Stone tablet on South aisle wall

Height 76cm. Width 88cm

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF

JOHN NEWTON   CYRIL SPENCER
EDWARD ROBINSON   FRANCIS SPENCER

              WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”

THIS TABLET
AND THE ALTAR IN THE CHURCH WERE GIVEN
BY THE PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS
1939 - 1945
CYRIL PINDER

On the south side of the Altar, a brass plate

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF
JOHN NEWTON
EDWARD ROBINSON
CYRIL SPENCER
FRANCIS SPENCER
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1918
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
THIS ALTAR AND THE TABLET IN THIS
CHURCH WERE GIVEN BY
PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS

Roll of Honour

Framed, on South wall

Roll of Honour
East Drayton with Stokeham

Pte G E Iremonger   Notts and Derby Mtd Brigade
+ Pte John Newton
(killed in action in France April 14 1917)		   Sherwood Foresters
Pte H Pilgrim   Army Service Corps
Pte H Richardson   Cyclists Battalion
+ Pte Edward Robinson
(killed in France 1916)		   Notts and Derby 9th Sherwood Foresters
Pte John Rolfe
(wnd repatriated prisoner of war)		   Lincolnshire Regiment
Gunner G W Rearsby   Royal Field Artillery
+Pte A G Simpson
(killed in action in Palestine Nov 28 1917)		   Notts and Derby Mtd Brigade
Pte C Skelton   Sherwood Foresters
Driver G Small   Royal Field Artillery
+ 2nd Lieut F Spencer
(promoted Captain 1917. Killed in action
Sept 26 1917 in France)		   Officer Cadet Battalion
Lance Cpl W Spencer   Royal Garrison Artillery
+Pte W Stevenson
(Died of wounds April 29, 1917)		   Sherwood Foresters
Driver G Wilson   Field Ambulance
Sapper Wilfred Whitlam   Sherwood Foresters
Pte George Jenkinson   Sherwood Foresters
+Pte Cyril Spencer
(Died of wounds Oct 4th 1918)		   Trained Reserves

Note: The following have tomb stones in the churchyard, but are not recorded on the stone War Memorial or Roll of Honour:

William Lowe, gunner. Died 21 March 1918

William Vincent Miller, 10th East Yorkshire Regt. Died 14th June 1916

Recorded on the War Memorial and Roll of Honour and having a tombstone in the churchyard:

Edward Robinson. Died 9th December 1916