"CASTLE CAMPS MEMORIALS"

To the eternal memory of the men of CASTLE CAMPS who died in the service of their country
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:- TO THE GLORY OF GOD & 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 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,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.