Southwell
Minster

War Memorial

First World War

 

War memorial Detail Panels containing the
names of the fallen
from 1914-18		 Memorial to the dead of
WW2 flanked by boards
listing names of those killed
in WW1 but omitted from the
original 1919 memorial

The memorial was designed by W D Caroe in 1919 to commemorate those killed in the First World War and is on the east wall of the south transept.

The upper section lists the names of those who perished in the First World War. There are four panels, here numbered 1 to 4 from left to right.

Panel 1
Pte. SIDNEY DEELEY
Pte. CHARLES BURN
Pte. HARRY WILKINS
Pte. ALBERT HOPEWELL
Pte. EZEKIEL EATON
Pte. FRANK PALING
Cpl. FRANK WILCOX
Cpl. SAMUEL HUMBERSTONE
Pte. JOHN HOPEWELL
Pte. SAMUEL OLIVER
Pte. FRANK RAYNOR
Capt. BASIL HANDFORD
Lieut. EVERARD HANDFORD
Sgt. ARTHUR SHEPPARD D.C.M.
Cpl. ROBERT TOWNSEND
Major JOHN BECHER D.S.O.
Pte. ARTHUR HAZELWOOD
L/Cpl. ALFRED GOULDER
Cpl. JOHN SHARMAN M.S.G.
Pte. EDWIN GILBERT
Pte. GEORGE PEACOCKE
Pte ARTHUR RUMLEY
Sgt. WALTER TOWNSEND
Panel 2
Pte. TOM MUSGRAVE
Cpl. ALBERT PALING
Pte PERCY HALL
Lieut. CHARLES MALTBY
L/Cpl. JOHN WATSON
Pte. VINCENT BROWN
Lieut. NEVILLE KIRKBY
Sgt. JOHN WALLER
Pte. GEORGE RICHARDSON
Pte. HARRY SEWARD
Pte. THOMAS STEPHENSON
Pte. GEORGE DAVISON
Lieut. ERNEST VICKERS
Lieut. WILLIAM LABBETT
Pte. CHRISTOPHER HALL
Pte. FRANK COOLING
Pte. JOSEPH JONES
Pte. ALBERT WILSON
Pte. ALFRED MERRIN
Pte. TOM BARLOW
Cpl. ARTHUR HUMBERSTONE
Pte. WILLIAM WILKINSON
Pte. CONWAY RANDALL
Panel 3
Pte. WALTER MERRIN
Pte. PERCY ULYATT
Pte. SAMUEL ULYATT
Pte. GEORGE EGLESHAW
Sgt. ARTHUR SMITH
L/Cpl. WALTER ROBINSON
Sgt. WILLIAM DRABBLE
Pte. HERBERT TWELLS
Pte. HERBERT KIRK
Pte. AUGUSTUS WYLES
Pte. ROYAL MURRAY
L/Cpl. THOMAS JEPSON
Pte. ARTHUR WHITWORTH
Pte. GEORGE ALVEY
Pte. CLEMENT MOSEDALE
Pte. WILLIAM HAILEY
Sgt. HERBERT COLLINSON
Pte. EDWARD KEMP
Cpl. HAROLD TYNE D.C.M.
Pte. JOHN CURZON
Pte. JOHN MOSELEY
Pte. WILLIAM HINDSON
Pte. LESLIE ARNOLD
Panel 4
Pte. ARTHUR GARRATT
Pte. LEONARD RAWORTH
Pte. LESLIE TWYDALE
Pte. ARTHUR HORSLEY
Pte. ROBERT SCRATON
Sgt. WILLIAM FOSTER
Pte. JAMES STUBBS
Pte. HAROLD EWERS
Pte. ARCHIBALD STANLEY
Pte. JOHN GILBERT
Pte. PERCY TODER
Pte. FRED BELL
Pte. OLIVER SHARPE
Pte. FREDERICK BATES
Cpl. HARRY BROWN
Sgt. WALTER SUTER
Pte. GEORGE DONSON
Cpl. EDWARD SERGEANT
Pte. WALTER WOMBWELL
Pte HORACE MERRIN
Pte. ERNEST SMITH

Second World War

Underneath is another memorial to those who fell in the Second World War. The upper and lower portions of the First World War memorial were separated and a new panel inserted between them to carry the names of those who fell in the Second World War. As always with combined war memorials, it is striking how the number of WWI names greatly outnumber those of WWII.

S/Ldr. JOHN H BECHER
Pte ALAN BECKETT
L/Cpl. HAROLD BRAILSFORD
Pte. CHARLES DOUBLEDAY
Sgt. HERBERT DRURY
Cpl. CROSBY FOX
Gdsmn. HAROLD HEMSTOCK
Spr. ALBERT HAYWOOD
A/B HERBEWRT HOPEWELL
Sgt. ROBERT INGLIS
Sgt. ARTHUR KEETLEY		    

REMEMBER BEFORE GOD
THE MEN OF SOUTHWELL
WHO DIED IN THE WARS
1914-1918     1939-1945
REST   ETERNAL  GRANT
UNTO  THEM  O  LORD

     P/O ROBERT MATTHEWS
Capt. MICHAEL MOSLEY M.C.
Sgt GEORGE PICKER
Sgt. HARRY SCRATON
A/B GEORGE SHEPPARD
L/Bdr. GEORGE SMITH
F/O HOWARD SPENCER
F/O MICHAEL SUCKLING
Sub-Lt. ROBERT THORNE
Pte. BENJAMIN ULYATT
Pte. DENNIS VOCE

Research by the Southwell Branch of the Royal British Legion revealed the fact that 17 of the Southwell servicemen who had been killed in the First World War and one serviceman who had lost his life in the Second World War had not had their names recorded on the war memorial in the minster.

In 2011, two new hinged boards carrying matching lettering were added and they now display the missing names as follows:

Left-hand board
1914-18
LSgt. GEORGE HUBBARD
Pte. GEORGE PARLBY
Pte. THOMAS TERRY
Pte. PERCY ASTILL
Pte. WILLIAM DONSON
Pte. PERCY WARD
Pte. GEORGE LESTER
Pte. SAMUEL COPSON
Pte. DAVID FROW
Pte. HENRY CROOME
Right-hand board
1914-18
Pte. WILLIAM COOLING
Pte. FRANCIS PERKINS
Pte. LEONARD ALLEN
Pte. HUBERT GEORGE
Pte. FRANK THOMPSON
Sgt. FREDERICK HANDLEY MM
2/Lt DAVID THOMSON

1939-45
F/O GODFREE BROWNE