A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Lake -
- Parish War Memorial -

Location

At the junction of Lake Hill and The Fairway, Isle of Wight
 
See map on www.streetmap.co.uk
 
National Inventory of War Memorials Record

Link : NIWM Reference 21807 War Memorial
 
Link : NIWM Reference 21808 Horse Trough
 
English Heritage Listing Status

The War Memorial is not Listed. The Horse Trough is separately Listed Grade II.
 
Isle of Wight Council Local Listing Status

The War Memorial has been included in the list of structures of Local importance held by the Isle of Wight Council (June 2008).
 
Description

A stone cross bearing the names of the Lake men who died in the Great War. A drinking trough commemorates the horses and dogs used in the War.

The Memorial was moved in 1998.

The World War II names were added in 1999.
Memorial

Lake : War memorial
War Memorial in 1935
Lake : War memorial
War Memorial in 1998
Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial

Lake : War memorial
WW II names added 1999
Inscription

THE PEOPLE OF LAKE
HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL
IN HONOUR OF THE
210 LAKE MEN WHO SERVED
THEIR COUNTRY BY LAND SEA AND AIR
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1920
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names as given below
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1939 - 1945
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names as given below
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD
WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY
AND IN MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC DEAD

"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"

 
" O RISEN LORD,
O SHEPHERD OF OUR DEAD"

"WHOSE CROSS HAS BROUGHT THEM
AND WHOSE STAFF HAS LED"

"IN GLORIOUS HOPE, THEIR PROUD
AND SORROWING LAND"

"COMMITS HER CHILDREN
TO THY GRACIOUS HAND"

J F ARKWRIGHT


TO THE HORSES AND DOGS WHO ALSO
BORE THE BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY
1914 - 1920

BE YE MERCIFUL


TO COMMEMORATE
THE BRAVE MEN OF LAKE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
DURING ACTIVE SERVICE IN
WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM


Further Information

NameLinks
World War I  
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G A ALLEN CWGC record ...
A ARNOLD CWGC record ... not found
SDGW gives Pte 10941 Alfred Arnold, 2nd Hants, died Gallipoli 28/4/1915
A R BALLARD CWGC record ...
F W BALLARD CWGC record ...
O C BALLARD CWGC record ...
R J BALLARD CWGC record ...
F G BIRCH CWGC record ...
H BIRCH CWGC record ... W H Birch
G W BOWEN Possible CWGC record ...
A BOYNTON CWGC record ...
T BOYNTON CWGC record ...
E J CASSFORD CWGC record ...
P DASHWOOD CWGC record ...
A EDMUNDS CWGC record ...
G W EDMUNDS CWGC record ... W Edmunds
H FLEMING CWGC record ...
V FORTEATH CWGC record ... W V Forteath
R M HANDS CWGC record ...
H HORSFORD CWGC record ...
   
C E JEFFERIES Probable CWGC record ...
E KENT CWGC record ...
H C KENT CWGC record ...
J KENT CWGC record ...
T W KEMP CWGC record ...
A E KINGSTON CWGC record ...
Buried at Sandown (Christ Church) Churchyard
G B LANGSTON CWGC record ... not found
E LEWIS CWGC record ...
C A MATTHEWS CWGC record ...
FRANK MEECHAM CWGC record ...
FRED MEECHAM CWGC record ...
F J MERWOOD CWGC record ...
Buried in Shanklin Cemetery
W MUNNS CWGC record ... not found
E W PERKINS CWGC record ...
D W PHILLIPS CWGC record ...
R G PRITCHETT CWGC record ...
C F ROOPE CWGC record ...
J H ROWE CWGC record ...
R ROWELL CWGC record ...
   
R RYDER CWGC record ...
H P SARGENT CWGC record ...
J SARGENT CWGC record ...
A W SCOVELL CWGC record ...
W E SCRIVENER CWGC record ... E W H Scrivener
W SHARPE CWGC record ...
H SMITH CWGC record ...
P STAMP CWGC record ...
R TRINDER CWGC record ...
Choristers Memorial, Church of the Good Shepherd
G TRUETT CWGC record ...
Buried at Sandown (Christ Church) Churchyard
H TRUEMAN CWGC record ...
H C URRY CWGC record ...
T W URRY CWGC record ... not found
A W VOICE CWGC record ...
H WAVELL CWGC record ...
O C WHITE CWGC record ...
W WOODFORD Probable CWGC record ... H W Woodford
F WOODHOUSE CWGC record ...
   
World War II  
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G H BETTENSON CWGC record ...
S J CARPENTER CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
A J CASSFORD CWGC record ...
B B CHIVERTON CWGC record ...
L D HARRIS CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
A H JARVIS CWGC record ... not found
G H KENT CWGC record ...
C MABEY CWGC record ... not found
 Biography and Circumstances of death
J D MOORMAN CWGC record ...
J NOTTINGHAM CWGC record ...
G A PAYNE CWGC record ...
   
C PRAGNELL CWGC record ...
K PROUTEN CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
H B SALTER Probable CWGC record ...
A J SHIPLEY CWGC record ...
E J SHIPLEY CWGC record ...
R F STAY CWGC record ...
J SUTTON CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
G TEWKESBURY CWGC record ...
F K WEBSTER CWGC record ...
 Buried at Sandown Cemetery
J WHITTINGTON CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
J H WRIGHT CWGC record ...
 Biography and Circumstances of death
Others associated with Lake :
John Herbert FORROW CWGC record ...
Veteran Affairs Canada record ...
The Isle of Wight County Press death notice of 10 Nov 1917 states : "FORROW - Oct 25, killed in action in France, John Herbert Forrow, youngest son of Mrs Forrow of Pinethorpe, Lake, Sandown."
Keith SPANNER CWGC record ...
The CWGC record gives these details : "Husband of Doris Laura Spanner, of 7 Louis Road, Lake, Sandown, Isle of Wight. [Died] in the Solent." Died on 20 Sep 1941.
Commemorated also on the Newport 1st Scouts Memorial at the Scouts HQ in St John's Road, Newport.


 
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Page last updated : 30 Nov 2007


 
 

 
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