Clipstone
All Saints

War Memorial

A Royal British Legion Standard is erected on the north wall to the side of the following plaques:

A bronzed metallic wall plaque with white lettering mounted on the north wall on a dark oak ground reads:

PRAY
FOR THE SOULS OF
THOSE WHO DIED
IN THE
SECOND GREAT WAR
1939 – 1945
R.I.P.

Book of Remembrance

A Book of Remembrance in a light oak glazed cabinet beneath the above plaque commences with the statement:

They shall not grow 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.

The pages of the Book make a memorial reference associated with the Second World War to the following fallen members of the community:

838775 Gunner, E.C. Berry, 31 May 1940
4200111 Private, Ronald Lovett, died 17 July 1944
8051928 Private, Leslie Trigg, died 8 September 1944
1603260 Gunner, Leonard Jervis, died 23 August 1943
4853953 Corporal, RAF, T.H. Baxter, 23 September 1944
769028 L/Corporal, Ronald Adams, died 4 March 1942
325855 Trooper, Sherwood Foresters, N. Shields, died 7 August 1940
W/300129 Private, ATS, Celia Thompson, died 28 July 1944
2066230 Paratrooper, Harold Benton, died 1 January 1943
798103 L/Bombardier, John Wass, died 1 July 1944
185670 Captain, Sherwood Foresters, T.G. Bradley, died 18 March 1945
631720 Sergeant, RAF, C.F. Harper, died January 1943
14810325 Gunner, Desmond Baird, died 22 July 1946

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains a series of First World War gravesites at St Alban’s church, Forest Town, which relate to soldiers and one nurse attached to the ‘Clipstone Camp’.

Edwinstowe and Clipstone Cross

A combined memorial at the Church Street/Mansfield Road crossroads in Edwinstowe incorporates the Clipstone and Edwinstowe World War I and II monument. This consists of a finely worked stone Celtic style wheel cross on a tapering two stage plinth and two stepped base on a raised platform having dimensions of depth 1000mm, height 3500mm and width 1250mm.

The inscriptions read:

TO THE
GLORY OF
GOD
AND
IN PROUD
MEMORY
OF THE MEN
OF
EDWINSTOWE
AND
CLIPSTONE
WHO FELL
IN
THE
GREAT WAR
1914-1918

H.W.ALLCOCK		A.PINDER
C.J.BELLFIELD		S.R.PINDER
C.BENTLEY		H.RABBITT
C.W.BRANFORD		F.RABBITT
N.H.BOWYER		E.RABBITT
J.W.CREAMER		W.RABBITT
G.W.COUPE		B.RODGERS
H.DEAKIN		S.RODGERS
E.R.DORSEY		J.G.ROBERTS
W.C.DUMBARTON		S.G.STEEPLES
E.ESTROP		F.C.THOMPSON
S.HARRISON		C.WARDALE
A.C.JACKSON		W.WILKINSON
W.H.LITTLE		F.PARSONS

IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EDWINSTOWE
WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939-1945

G.ASKEW		C. REEDMAN
J.E.FOY		R.H.RICHARDSON
J.GREENFIELD		F.SARGEANT
E.HOE		H.SPERRINK
J.JONES		C.H.WINTER
J.LACEY		O.W.WOODHEAD
E.G. REDDISH		C.E. WRIGHT

Note

The name PTE. E. BENTLEY appears alone on the side of the memorial. His is the only name with a rank enumerated.

Edwinstowe Church Memorial

A marble war memorial tablet is also placed for the villages of Edwinstowe, Clipstone, and Carburton, on the east wall of the Lady Chapel in St. Mary's church in Edwinstowe. This was refurbished as a War Memorial in 1921 by the Revd Frank Cecil Day-Lewis. A memorial to those who gave their lives in World War II has since been added.

The memorial plaques read:

THIS CHAPEL WAS RESTORED
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN THE PROUD MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF EDWINSTOWE
CLIPSTONE AND CARBURTON
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918

H.W.ALLCOCK		F.PARSONS
C.J.BELLFIELD		A.PINDER
C.BENTLEY		S.R.PINDER
C.W.BRANFORD		H.RABBITT
H.H.BOWYER		F.RABBITT
J.W.CREAMER		E.RABBITT
G.W.COUPE		W.RABBITT
H.DEAKIN		B.RODGERS
J.DOLBY		S.RODGERS
E.R.DORSEY		J.G.M.ROBERTS
W.C.DUMBARTON		S.C.STEEPLES
E.ESTROP		F.C.THOMPSON
S.HARRISON		C.WILSON
A.C.JACKSON		C.WARDALE
W.H.LITTLE		W.WILKINSON
ERNEST BENTLEY

1938-1945

G.ASKEW		C. REEDMAN
J.E.FOY		R.H.RICHARDSON
J.GREENFIELD		F.SARGEANT
E.HOE		H.SPERRINK
J.JONES		C.H.WINTER
J.LACEY		O.W.WOODHEAD
E.G. REDDISH		C.E. WRIGHT

Clipstone Welfare Site Monument

A further War Memorial is provided at the south-west corner of the grounds of the Clipstone Welfare Hall. No names are listed on this monument but it forms a focal point for a local Remembrance Service. The plaque reads:

IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO FOUGHT
TYRANNY ON LAND,
SEA, AIR ALSO
BELOW GROUND