Boddington (St Mary Magdalene Church) Roll of Honour


   LEAVING CHELTENHAM …………..and all that was dear

 

 

Roll of Honour Tablet

St Mary Magdalene Church, Boddington

Location:   St Mary Magdalene Church, Boddington

Grid Reference:   SO 894252

Unveiled:   18th July 1998 (New Memorial)

Names listed on this Roll of Honour:   5

Visited:   May 2002

Imperial War Museum War Memorial Register Number:   20988

Further information from GlosGen can be viewed here.

  Copyright:  Allan D James, 2002

Inscription on this Roll of Honour:   Their name liveth for evermore.

Alphabetical list of names on this Roll of Honour Tablet

Arkell F J   *

Cook W E   *

Skirton W R   *

Tomlinson H V

Tomlinson L R

Those marked with * should be linked with the notes against their name below.

Full service details of those named on the War Memorial can be seen at the foot of this page.

Notes:

1.   Arkell is commemorated on a brass plaque in St Mary Magdalene Church.

2.   Cook died nearly 5 years after the formal ending of the Great war.   He is buried in the Boddington (St Mary Magdalene) Churchyard.

3.   Skirton is most probably William Richard Skirten.

4.   Commemorations in the St Mary Magdalene Church can be found here.

5.   All are commemorated in the Roll of Honour pages.

6.  This Roll of Honour Tablet replaced an earlier Roll which was erected in the 1920s.  

 

 

Roll of Honour

St Mary Magdalene Church, Boddington, Glos

Name on Memorial Actual Name Number Rank Ship/Regt/Corps/Unit Died Age Cause Location Cemetery/Memorial Notes
ARKELL F J Frank Joseph 240961 Pte 2/5th Bn Glos Regt 21-Mar-18 24 KIA France – Holnon Wood Pozieres Memorial,  
                    France  
COOK W E William Elliott 234804 Pte 8th Bn Canadian Infantry 11-Feb-26 37 DOI UK – Boddington Boddington Cemetery  
                       
SKIRTON W R William Richard 20622 Pte 6th Bn Loyal North Lancs Regt 04-Jun-16 19 DOW Mesopotamia – Bait Aissa Amara Cemetery, Iraq  
    SKIRTEN                  
TOMLINSON H V Herbert Victor 8047 Pte 1st Bn Kings Shropshire LI 20-Jun-15 28 KIA Belgium – Hooge Potijze Burial Ground  
                    Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium  
TOMLINSON L R Leonard Rees 12566 Pte 1/4th Bn Kings Shropshire LI 05-Nov-18 28 DOI France – Rouen St Sever Cemetery, Rouen,  
                    France  

 

 

 

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