Wollaton
St Leonard

War Memorial

The church contains three war memorials apart from several other memorials with military significance.

In a prominent position at the entrance a memorial to those who served in World War I is set externally at ground level against the west wall of the north aisle.

The memorial lists 73 names:

MEN OF WOLLATON

WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19

ALLSEBROOK, G.C.

  

CLARK, G.H.

  

HOLLAND, J.

  

RATE, J.D.

ANDERSON, W.

  

COOK, A.

  

HOLMES, W.

  

RAYNOR, A.J.

ANDERSON, T.

  

DAVIS, L.

  

HOOLEY, C.J.

  

ROBERTS, W.

ANDERSON, G.

  

DICKENS, B.

  

HOOLEY, A.

  

RUSSELL, J.C. (D.S.O.)

ARCHER, G.

  

DICKENS, L.

  

JONES, E.H.

  

SMITH, A.E.

ARCHER, J.H.

  

EYRE, J.

  

JONES, J.T.

  

SMITH, R.

ASHBY, J.W.

  

FLINT, G.A.

  

JONES, T.G.

  

SMITH, S.

BARKER, J.

  

FORMAN, G.

  

JONES, D.H.

  

THORLEY, J.

BARROWCLIFFE, J.

  

FRANCIS, G.

  

KNIGHT, G.

  

UPTON, B.

BATTY, F.

  

HARDY, G.

  

LANGSDALE, H.

  

UPTON, E.

BLAND, A.W.

  

HARDY, J.

  

LYNES, J.

  

UPTON, L.

BLAND, B.C.

  

HARDY, W.

  

MATHER, J.

  

VARLEY, A.

BLAND, W.E.

  

HARDY, H.

  

MURDEN, J.

  

WALL, A. (M.M.)

BLAND, H.A.

  

HARDY, A.

  

NEWBURY, J.

  

WALTON, W.

BOOTH, J.O.

  

HARRIMAN, H.

  

PEACH, J.

  

WARD, G.

CARLISLE, W.

  

HARRISON, W.R. (L.S.O., M.C.)

  

PENNOCK, G.

  

WARD, A.

CARTWRIGHT, H.

  

HARRISON, F.C. (L.S.O, R.N.)

  

PING, P.

  

WARD, F.

CARTWRIGHT,  J.

  

HARWOOD, G.

  

PITTAWAY, E.

  

 

 

  

HIGHAM, R.

  

POOLE, F.

  

 

Within the church the eleven men who lost their lives in World War I are named on a marble tablet on the south wall of the nave.

The inscription reads:

IN PROUD MEMORY
OF

Arthur George Flint
Sidney Smith
John Thorley
Basil Claude Bland
James Cosmo Russell, D.S.O.
James Mather
Harry Augustus Bland
Harold Harriman
Arthur Wall, M.M.
Leonard Upton
John Barker

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY

1914-1919

A little to its west is the memorial to those killed in World War II.

The inscription reads:

IN PROUD MEMORY OF

Alfred Leonard Baker  

Gordon Frederick Hopewell

  

Norman Spray

William D. Birkett

  

Harold Charles Howat

  

Stanley Spray

Stephen Bowmer

  

Horace Johns

  

Thomas Steer

Albert Henry Brown

  

Geoffrey Kempshall-Richards

  

R. Stokes

Dennis George Cresswell

  

George King

  

John Walker

Charles Rosslyn Deacon

  

John McIntyre

  

George Walton

John Cheslyn Gibbs

  

Thomas Matthew Meir

  

Thomas Wigley

Willaim Arthur Greatorex

  

Reginald Moss

  

Leslie Thomas Woodward

George Green

  

Vernon Trevor Patey

  

Frank Wright

George Hardy

  

G. E. Richardson

  

Fred Yates

John Hayes

  

Archie Smith

  

 

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
1939 - 1945

This is a less lavish work, but is of interest for two reasons. Most war memorials reflect the many fewer fatalities of the second conflict in contrast to the first. Here the 32 names are an indication of how much suburban development had expanded the population of Wollaton in the two decades between the wars. The second point of interest is that there was a delay in erecting the second memorial which occurred only in 1988 when intensive research by members of the Royal British Legion produced an appropriate tablet some forty years after most other places.

Memorials related to war include the glass in the north window of the chancel which commemorates James Cosmo Russell, who was killed in 1917 and the large marble tablet in the south aisle, with its modest supplement beneath, which record the deaths of Henry Hetley Pearson and his brother, Basil John Pearson. They were also commemorated by the short-lived octagonal vestry erected in 1946.

A very modest plaque in the north aisle recalls John Edson who died in 1855 following the Battle of Inkerman.