Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Whitwell -
- SS Mary & Radegund Church Chancel Memorials -

Location

In SS Mary & Radegund Church, Whitwell, Isle of Wight, PO38 2QQ
 
See map on www.streetmap.co.uk
 
National Inventory of War Memorials Record

Link : NIWM Reference 21881  Capt N E Howell
Link : NIWM Reference 21883  Lt G S Morse
Link : NIWM Reference 21880  Capt B Ussher
Link : NIWM Reference 21882  Capt S Ussher
Link : NIWM Reference 21879  Lt F R Elderton

 
English Heritage Listing Status

SS Mary & Radegund Church is Grade II Listed. Since the Memorial plaques form part of the fittings of the Church, it is assumed they are covered by the Listing.
 
Description

Four brass plaques are attached to the chancel base. A further plaque is mounted behind the pulpit.

None of the men named appear to have a direct connection with Whitwell.

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Further Information

	Name	Links
	NORMAN ELLIOTT HOWELL	CWGC record ...
	GURTH STEPHEN MORSE	CWGC record ...
	From The Times 1 January 1915 : Second Lieutenant Gurth Stephen Morse, who died on December 9 of wounds received on December 4, was the third and youngest son of Mr and Mrs Amyas Morse, of The Bourne, Bourne End, Bucks. He was educated at Ashampstead, Eastbourne, and Clifton College, and obtained his commission in the R.F.A. in August 1913.
	BEVERLEY USSHER	CWGC record ...
	From The Times 26 June 1915 : Captain Beverley Ussher, Leinster Regiment, son of the Rev R Ussher, vicar of Westbury, Bucks who has been killed at the Dardanelles, was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined his regiment at Barbados, West Indies, in 1900, and served in Jamaica and St Lucia. He served through the South African War (medal with clasp). Subsequently he served in India for two years, and then at Devonport and Ireland. For the last two years he had been an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He left for the Dardanelles as Staff Captain on the Staff of General Doran last May. In 1906 he married Ethel, daughter of Canon J Martin, of Durham, and leaves a widow and two children. His brother, Captain Stephen Ussher, 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis, was killed in France on December 16 last.
	STEPHEN USSHER	CWGC record ...
	From The Times 22 December 1914 : Captain Stephen Ussher, 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis, son of the Rev R Ussher, vicar of Westbury, Bucks, fell on December 16. He was born in 1882, and was appointed second liutenant unattached in 1902. Two years later he joined the Indian Army, and was promoted captain in 1911.
	FOTHERGILL REX ELDERTON	CWGC record ...
	From the Times 4 October 1915 : Lieutenant Fothergill Rex Elderton, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in France, was the only son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Elderton, of Pendoylon, Epsom. He was educated at Epsom College, and was in some engineering works in Switzerland when war was declared. he returned home and was gazetted to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. At Christmas he went out to the front and took part in the actions at Neuve Chapelle, La Bassee, and Festubert. He was promoted lieutenant in February and was on the waiting list for the Royal Flying Corps to which he expected to be gazetted this month. A good all-round athlete, he won the hurdles and was second in the high jump at the international sports in Zurich about a fortnight before war broke out. He was 23 years old.