Skegby St AndrewWar Memorial
 The war memorial is in the shape of a stone cross on a raised platform located in front of the south porch.
It was unveiled on 11 November 1923 by G. G. Bonser of Sutton-in-Ashfield.
The inscription reads:
THIS
MONUMENT
AND THE
SCHOOL CLOCK
WERE ERECTED TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE
1914 - 1918 |
H. ACTON. |
H. ASHLEY. |
A. BARNETT. |
G. BARNETT. |
BARNES. |
A. BETTS. |
O. BRYAN. |
A. CORAH. |
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B. DUDLEY. |
C. CORAH. |
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O. EYRE. |
L. CAUNT. |
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J. W. EDWARDS. |
C. CAUNT. |
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B. GREEN. |
P. CAUNT. |
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J. HARDWICK. |
A. DAFT. |
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F. HANCOCK. |
B. DAVIES. |
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E. HARRISON. |
O. DENBY. |
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J. H. HARRISON. |
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G. ATTERBY. |
J. HOOKS. |
A. HULL. |
P. HUTCHINSON. |
H. JOHNSON. |
W. JOHNSON. |
G. LITCHFIELD. |
J. MILLER. |
S. PRICE. |
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J. TAYLOR. |
R. PLATTS. |
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E. WALKER. |
A. ROEBUCK. |
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F. WARD. |
A. RAWLINSON. |
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H. WILKES. |
J. SCOTT. |
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J. WEST. |
S. SILLS. |
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J. WHITE. |
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1939 – 1945
A. C. ALLSEBROOK
W. P. ALLSEBROOK
C. E. BRYAN
C. MARSHALL
S. MURRAY
A. PRINGLE
V. SMITH
D. WESTWOOD
W. WHITE
J. K. WORTON
D. POYSER
J. BRYANT |
The war memorial clock installed at Skegby National School was unveiled by Captain P. Muschamp of Mansfield on 1 July 1921.
Roll of Honour
A framed Roll of Honour for those who died in both World Wars hangs on the north wall of the church.
Saint Andrew’s Church
SKEGBY
ROLL OF HONOUR
1914 – 1918
| H. Acton |
O. Denby |
G. Litchfield |
H. Ashley |
B. Dudley |
J. Miller |
G. Atterby |
O. Eyre |
S. Price |
A. Barnett |
T. W. Edwards |
K. Platts |
G. Barnett |
B. Green |
A. Roebuck |
A. Betts |
J. Hardwick |
A. Rawlinson |
O. Bryan |
F. Hancock |
J. Scott |
A. Corah |
E. Harrison |
S. Sills |
C. Corah |
J. H. Harrison |
J. Taylor |
L. Caunt |
J. Hooks |
E. Walker |
G. Caunt |
A. Hull |
F. Ward |
P. Caunt |
P. Hutchinson |
H. Wilkes |
A. Daft |
H. Johnson |
J. West |
B. Davies |
W. Johnson |
J. White |
1939 - 1945
| A. G. Allsebrook |
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A. Pringle |
W. P. Allsebrook |
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V. Smith |
C. E. Bryan |
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D. Westwood |
G. Marshall |
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W. White |
S. Murray |
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J. K. Worton |
THE SOLDIER
Rupert Brooke
If I should die, Think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. Then shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England, Shaped.
made aware;
A body of England’s, breathing English
air;
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. |
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And think, this heart, all evil Steel away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by
England given;
And laughter, learnt of friends;
and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English
heaven. |
Presented by George and Joyce Atterby August ‘85’
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Other Memorials
In addition there is a brass plaque on the north wall to Captain John Miller of the Royal Welch Fusiliers who died in 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign:
In loving memory of
John Miller,
Captain 6th Battn Royal Welch Fusiliers
of Dalestorth House, Mansfield and Dublin. Eldest
Son of J.J. and M.V. Miller; born March 4th
1877. Killed in action at Karakol Dagh,
Suvla Bay at daybreak,
August 19th 1915.
“And to keep loyalties young I’ll write this name golden for ever” |
Also on the north wall is a framed memorial to Joe Blythe. Lance Bombardier Blythe was captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell in 1942 and acted as a medical orderly in a Prisoner-of-War camp at Rabaul on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
The memorial was unveiled on 6 May 2000.
IN REMEMBRANCE
OF
JOE BLYTHE
Born 1906 – Died 1987 aged 80
For his untiring care and devotion to
his comrades in a Japanese Prisoner of
War camp in Rabaul, New Britain
1942 – 1945
A survivor of the Rabaul 600
Only 18 survived
Presented by Comrades of the Royal British Legion, Skegby
Stanton Hill and Teversal Branch |
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