Scrooby
St Wilfrid

War Memorial

The war memorial is situated in the churchyard to the east of the church, near the boundary wall, and dates from 1920. It has a single-stepped square base surmounted by tapering square plinth and polished grey granite broken column. The inscription in gold lettering on the plinth reads:

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
THE MEN WHO DIED FOR THEIR
COUNTRYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR

DRIVER SIDNEY BURTON
PTE ERNEST FENNELL
PTE ALFRED STONES
PTE HARRY PAULSON
PTE FREDERICK OGLEY
PTE GEORGE FOSTER

“THE PRICE OF VICTORY”

There is also a wooden plaque in the tower commemorating the men of Serlby who fought in the First World War:

1914 – 1918
SERLBY
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

CYRIL SCHOLEY  

FREDK OGLEY

ARTHUR KIPLING

  

ERNEST BLAND

WALTER HANSON

  

H W O’BRIEN

GEORGE WHITAKER

  

ALFRED O’BRIEN

WILLIAM BUTLER

SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

LIEUT. COLONEL
HON. G.V. MONCKTON
   ARUNDELL D.S.O. 		 

LIEUT. COLONEL
G. SKEFFINGTON
   SMYTH D.S.O.

J. BINGLEY PARKIN

  

CYRIL R. FRANCE

FREDK. W. PARKIN

  

ED SCATCHERD

IVAN HINDMARSH

  

CHAS WHITAKER

ROBERT BLACKWELL

  

OSWALD NASH

JOHN HUTCHINSON

  

WILLIAM KIDD

LEONARD HARLOW

  

H SAUNDERSON

FREDK J. CRISP

  

GEORGE LORTON

GEORGE TOMLINSON

  

CHAS. A. CRISP

FREDK MEASHAM

  

FREDK C. BREWIN

WILFRID BLAND

  

WILLIAM BRACKLEY

STEPHEN PHILLIPS

  

ERNEST LAMB

ALBERT V. HURST

  

WILLIAM JOHNSON

JOHN ALLEN BELL

  

WILLIAM WARD

HERBERT BUTLER

  

CHAS. E. PARKIN

JOHN FILLINGHAM

A carved wooden wreath leans against the tower wall nearby. The names of Serlby men who are recorded on the war memorial appear on the leaves of the wreath.