Scrooby
St Wilfrid

War Memorial

The war memorial is situated in the churchyard to the east of the church, near the boundary wall, and dates from 1920. It has a single-stepped square base surmounted by tapering square plinth and polished grey granite broken column. The inscription in gold lettering on the plinth reads:

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
THE MEN WHO DIED FOR THEIR
COUNTRYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR

DRIVER SIDNEY BURTON
PTE ERNEST FENNELL
PTE ALFRED STONES
PTE HARRY PAULSON
PTE FREDERICK OGLEY
PTE GEORGE FOSTER

“THE PRICE OF VICTORY”

There is also a wooden plaque in the tower commemorating the men of Serlby who fought in the First World War:

1914 – 1918
SERLBY
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

CYRIL SCHOLEY  

FREDK OGLEY

ARTHUR KIPLING

 

ERNEST BLAND

WALTER HANSON

 

H W O’BRIEN

GEORGE WHITAKER

 

ALFRED O’BRIEN

WILLIAM BUTLER

SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

LIEUT. COLONEL
HON. G.V. MONCKTON
   ARUNDELL D.S.O.
 

LIEUT. COLONEL
G. SKEFFINGTON
   SMYTH D.S.O.

J. BINGLEY PARKIN

 

CYRIL R. FRANCE

FREDK. W. PARKIN

 

ED SCATCHERD

IVAN HINDMARSH

 

CHAS WHITAKER

ROBERT BLACKWELL

 

OSWALD NASH

JOHN HUTCHINSON

 

WILLIAM KIDD

LEONARD HARLOW

 

H SAUNDERSON

FREDK J. CRISP

 

GEORGE LORTON

GEORGE TOMLINSON

 

CHAS. A. CRISP

FREDK MEASHAM

 

FREDK C. BREWIN

WILFRID BLAND

 

WILLIAM BRACKLEY

STEPHEN PHILLIPS

 

ERNEST LAMB

ALBERT V. HURST

 

WILLIAM JOHNSON

JOHN ALLEN BELL

 

WILLIAM WARD

HERBERT BUTLER

 

CHAS. E. PARKIN

JOHN FILLINGHAM

A carved wooden wreath leans against the tower wall nearby. The names of Serlby men who are recorded on the war memorial appear on the leaves of the wreath.