A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Yarmouth -
- Yarmouth War Memorial -

Location

Town Hall, The Square, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, PO41 0NS.
 
IWM War Memorials Archive Record

Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 21902  
 
Historic England Listing Status

The Town Hall is Listed Grade II. Since the War Memorial panels are an integral part of the structure, it is assumed they are covered by the Listing.
 
Description

Hopton Stone panels on the Town Hall, the Great War memorial being the work of Mr F Cooper of Newport.

The Great War memorial was unveiled and dedicated Sunday 27th July 1924, by Maj-Gen J E B Seely, CB,CMG,DSO, MP.
Memorial

Yarmouth War memorial
 
Yarmouth War memorial
 
Yarmouth War memorial
 
Yarmouth Town Hall showing War memorials
 
Inscription


IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF YARMOUTH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919
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names as given below
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AND IN 1939 - 1945

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names as given below
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THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE


 

Further Information
NameLinks
 
1914 - 1919
 
R ALLEN CWGC record ... not found Biographical information
A BUCKETT CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
H BUTLER CWGC record ...
W BUTLER CWGC record ...
H CHAPMAN CWGC record ...
J CROOKS CWGC record ...
H H DOE CWGC record ...
G DOE CWGC record ...
C B L DASHWOOD CWGC record ... Memorial in St James's Church
H DYE CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
S FOULKES CWGC record ...
F GATRELL CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
H GATRELL CWGC record ... Buried at Yarmouth Cemetery
E GRIFFITHS CWGC record ...
E HARWOOD CWGC record ...
A HENDERSON CWGC record ...
A KELLEWAY CWGC record ... Buried at Yarmouth Cemetery
H LONG CWGC record ...
H PILCHER CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
S PAYNE CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
C PRINCE CWGC record ...
H RUSSELL CWGC record ...
A SPENCER CWGC record ...
R STRICKLAND CWGC record ... This is believed to refer to Albert Henry Stickland, who lived in Yarmouth in 1911 with his wife Elizabeth. Born in 1877 in Blandford, Dorset, he served with the 2nd Bn., Hampshire Regt. and who died in Mesopotamia (Iraq) of sickness on 25 March 1917.
F SHEAFF No CWGC record Frederick James Sheaff died on 4th July 1917 aged 41. On his Death Certificate, he is shown as being a Naval pensioner. The death was registered by his widow, Rose Sheaff, of Bembridge.
His name is also recorded on the Shalfleet War Memorial at St Michael's Church
A WADHAM CWGC record ...
H WOODFORD CWGC record ...
L WARDER CWGC record ... Commemorated on family headstone at Yarmouth Cemetery
 
1939 - 1945
 
A W KELLEWAY CWGC record ...
B R RIDDETT CWGC record ...
R J STILLWELL CWGC record ...
J S WOODIN CWGC record ... Biographical information
G PENNY CWGC record ...
J F SPENCE CWGC record ...
W E WHITE CWGC record ...
 
Others associated with Yarmouth : WW I
 
A J MaloneyCWGC record ... Soldiers Died in the Great War shows him as Alfred James Moloney, born Yarmouth, enlisted Newport.
The CWGC record names him as Molony and the Isle of Wight County Press Death notice of 15 Dec 1917 shows him as resident of How park, King's Somborne.
Bernard Hallett WilliamsCWGC record ... The CWGC record gives : Son of Mrs. Bertha Hallett Williams, of Bank House, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and the late Rev. Hallett Williams. Native of Rock Ferry, Cheshire.
 
Others associated with Yarmouth : WW II
 
Roy Godfrey Bullen Spicer, C.M.G., M.C.CWGC record ... Son of Bullen and Adele Spicer; husband of Margaret Frances Ina Spicer (nee Money), of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Scholar of St. Paul's School. Commissioner The Kenya Police 1925-31. Chief Constable of the Isle of Wight 1938-46. Inspector General of Police and Prisons, Palestine 1931-38. Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Awarded the King's Police Medal. Also served in the 1914-18 War.


 
Additional research by Ian Broad of Shalfleet, Caroline Dudley of Freshwater and Totland Archive Group, and Jil Cowley
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Page last updated : 26 November 2018 - identified R STRICKLAND as A H Stickland



 
 

 
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