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Location
Formerly in the Congregational Church, 16 Lower St James Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1LB. See map on www.streetmap.co.uk National Inventory of War Memorials Record Link : NIWM Reference 21810 (WW I) Link : NIWM Reference 21811 (WW II) English Heritage Listing Status The former Congregational Church is not Listed. Description Marble plaques in the church. Great War Memorial unveiled and dedicated October 1921. The building is now used as a night club. These memorials are currently (2007) in storage awaiting completion of a new church to replace the original. [Memorial not visited or photographed by Memorials in Isle of Wight team] |
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Memorials
Photo courtesy of Ray Harrington-Vail 
The former Congregational Church |
Inscription - Great War
IN EVER ABIDING MEMORY OF
----- names as given below ----- WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 ----- "ALL THAT WAS THEIRS TO GIVE, THEY GAVE" Further Information
From the Isle of Wight County Press, 22nd October 1921 : Report of unveiling of memorial on Wednesday 19th October 1921; extracts from Address by Mr A G Harrison, Church Secretary : "... With one exception all had been associated with their Sunday-school, three as members of the teaching staff, two were members of the choir, and Frank Wise was the highly esteemed secretary of their branch school at Parkhurst. ... Clive Thomas, who with a commission open to him, preferred to serve and suffer in the ranks as a private soldier, Corporal Jacob Peach, 5th Dragoon Guards, who for his sublime courage and devotion in the fighting in France in September 1914 won his well deserved Distinguished Conduct Medal; and Reginald Martin, who performed prodigies of valour on three battle fronts, not in destroying life, but in saving it, and who, for his splendid self-sacrificing courage, was awarded the Military Medal ..." Inscription - Second World War
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF ARTHUR COUSINS R.N. ROBERT WENDES R.A.F. WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 ----- And of AMY BUTLER, JULIA FLUX and EVA PALMER WHO WERE KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION. ALSO IN GRATITUDE FOR THE SAFE KEEPING OF THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CHURCH WHO SERVED IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD
The three women died on 7th April 1943 in Chapel Street, Newport. 19 people were killed, many of them workers at Morey's timber yard. For an eye witness account of the air raid see BBC WW2 People's war account by Vectensian. 'WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar' |
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