Winthorpe
All Saints

War Memorial

The war memorial hangs on the interior wall of the north aisle, and was placed there in the early 1950s after being found in the old Methodist Chapel by its then owner. It is made from white marble, with black lettering. The inscription reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
ARTHUR CECIL RICHMOND
AND
ARTHUR DEAN,
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914 – 1918.
THEY NOBLY DIED THAT WE IN PEACE MIGHT LIVE.

Private Arthur Cecil Richmond, 1st/7th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), son of Mr George Richmond and his wife Violetta, of Langford Moor, died on 1st July 1916, aged 25, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.

Lance Corporal Arthur Dean, 1st/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), son of Mr Richard Dean and his wife Grace, of The Crossing (Midland Railway), Winthorpe, died on 9th Dec 1917, aged 22, and is buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.

In the churchyard, on the family gravestone of John Edward Walker, his wife Hannah Eliza and their son Ernest, is an additional memorial:

ALSO JOHN EDWARD SON OF THE ABOVE
SERGT 1ST LINCS REGT
KILLED IN ACTION OCT. 4TH 1917
AGED 33 YEARS

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry, John Edward Walker was a Lance Sergeant who lived at Ivy Cottage in Winthorpe, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.