"CASTLE CAMPS MEMORIALS"
To the eternal memory of the men of CASTLE CAMPS who died in the service of their country
Wall mounted tablet in All Saints Church All Saints Church........Congregational Church go BACK to Castle Camps home page They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Twenty seven in the Great War of 1914-1919 and three from 1939-1945
There is also a wall mounted tablet inside All Saints Church
At the junction of Bartlow Road and High Street on a triangular green stands the war memorial. Constructed of Portland stone is consists an octagonal broach
stopped shaft with a gabled head, atop a cubed plinth, on one step, standing on a concrete base. The gabled pinnacle head is ornamented with three crowns, (the
heraldic device for East Anglia) on one face, a cross pattée on another and a laurel wreath on another. It was designed by architect Thomas Dinham Atkinson.
In July 2002 English Heritage offered a grant of £1625 towards work to clean the memorial using a mid-biocide and water, to re-paint some of the lettering,
to re-point the joints and carry out some localised mortar repairs to the step, to coat the memorial with a shelter coat incorporating algaecide and to
repair or grout losses of mortar on the apron.
On the west face of the plinth is incised, and black painted, the dedication:-
& IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF CASTLE
CAMPS WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE GREAT WARS
1914-1918 & 1939-1945
1942 ERIC ATHERTON
HENRY MYNOTT
1944 OLIVER DOCKERILL
and on the 4th face on the pinnacle.
THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO DEATH
On the other three faces of the plinth are inscribed the forename and surname of the fallen,
listed in date order, under the year they fell.
1915 WILLIAM FREE
WALTER PETTIT
CHARLES COWELL
1916 ALFRED MIDDLEDITCH
ELLIS WOODLEY
FREDERICK EGAN
WALTER COWELL
CLEMENT COWELL
ARTHUR PETTIT
1916 RICHARD RAWLINSON
JOSEPH MIDDLEDITCH
WALTER DOCKRILL
FRANK PEARL
1917 FRANK WENHAM
BERTIE PRENTICE
WALTER BARRETT
WILLIAM WOODLEY
FRED WRIGHT
1917 THOMAS WHITE
FRANCIS GREENGRASS
JOSEPH ROOKS
ALEXANDER FREE
FRED WENHAM
1918 FREDERICK STOCK
JOSEPH READER
WILLIAM LEONARD
MAURICE CARTER
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.