PEMBURY ST - Kent Fallen

The parish of Pembury, Royal Tunbridge Wells has two churches dedicated to
St. Peter. The oldest, known as the Old Church, stands outside the modern
village in the woods to the north of the A228 bypass. The newer building
which is known as the Upper Church, stands in the heart of the village on the
A21 Hastings Road, Lower Green, Pembury. The combined Great War and
Second World War wooden war memorial plaque shown above is located in
the Upper Church. As is so often the case with photographs on this website of
many different forms of remembrance to the victims of wars, which are
located in the western side of the county of Kent, we have to thank Susan F.
yet again for very kindly furnishing us with the photographs from St. Peter’s
Old Church, Pembury, for inclusion here. As the result of several hundred
requests to www.kentfallen.com from locations and organisations in Kent
(and elsewhere) for us to research and transcribe war memorials etcetera,
regrettably for the time being this memorial at Pembury and several others
which are in the process of being researched and transcribed, will for the time
being only have only very basic details. The scant details are of course in no
way intended to be disrespectful to those commemorated or to their
respective families. The transcriber of the following brief commemorations
has taken the liberty of setting out the casualties in alphabetical order for
ease of viewing. As with virtually every other form of remembrances to the
victims of wars, that at St. Peter’s Old Church, Pembury contains a number
of errors appertaining to Christian and surnames, and where applicable the
transcriber has commemorated all by the use of correct name and/or names.
The Great War
1914 -1919
ARNOLD, EDWARD. Sapper, 541121.
497th (Kent) Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Died 9 March 1917. Aged 23.
Born Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Enlisted Gillingham, Kent. Resided Pembury,
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Buried Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, Somme, France. Grave Ref: 111.C.40
Also commemorated on the Pembury, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent civic war
memorial, as are all of the other Pembury St. Peter’s parish church
commemorated casualties.
BALDOCK, STEPHEN THOMAS. Private, G/5058.
2nd Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).
Died 28 October 1918. Aged 28.
Born Lamberhurst, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.
Son of Charles Henry Baldock of Woodland Villa, Pembury, Royal Tunbridge
Wells, Kent.
Buried Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Grave Ref: XVIII. F. 1/29.
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