Leicester War Memorials - Leicestershire County Council

Leicester War Memorials 

List of CWGC casualties in Welford Road Cemetery provided by The Friends of Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester: http://lrfhs.org.uk/wroadwar.htm 

More details for Welford Road Cemetery from CWGC: http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=41262&mode=1 

Gilroes Cemetery, A50 contains 110 WW1 graves and 160 WW2 graves (not listed above). See CWGC website: http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2072859&mode=1 

UKNIWM website, including link to search page: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.002 

PMSA page featuring information and images on selected memorials: http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/EM/Region.htm 

No Site name UKNIWM 

reference 

1 Leicester 

Cathedral 

2 Welford Road 

Cemetery 

3 Arch of 

Remembrance, 

Victoria Park 

4 St Nicholas 

Church 

5 St Margaret’s 

Church 


Cathedral 

7 Christchurch 

Combined 

Methodist and 

Baptist Church 


Constabulary 

Police Force 

HQ 

9 Brice Memorial 

Hall, Queen’s 

Road 

37515 Wars of the 

Roses (1455- 

1487) 

14783 Battle of 

Waterloo 

(1815) 

Conflict Details Held Inscription Names Photo 

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SK 584 044 Near this site stood the / Church of the 

Greyfriars / where the body of Richard III / the 

last Plantagenet King of England / was interred 

after his death, aged 32 / at the battle of 

Bosworth field / 22 August 1485 / Requiescat in 

Pace / This memorial was erected by the 

Richard III Society 1990 

Gravestone In / remembrance of / John Winterton / who 

departed this life / Feb 16th 1870 / in the 74th 

year of his age. / He was severely wounded at / 

the battle of waterloo / and after lying three days 

/ and two nights on the field / had his left leg 

2225 WW1 SK 5957 0336; Listed Building (I) - 

9/153B (Memorial); Registered Park or 

Garden (II). 

Large square monumental arch 

crowned by low dome designed by Sir 

Edwin Lutyens. Tall and wide 

openings to W and E, smaller and 

lower ones to N and S Smaller 

version of India Gate in Delhi. 

Completed in 1924. 

amputated / at Brussels. / May he rest in peace. 

(front face, over arch): MCM XIV MCMXIX / Glory 

to God in the highest and on earth peace 

(front face, on the piers): MCM XXXIX MCMXLV 

(left face): Remember in gratitude twelve 

thousand men / of this city and county / who 

fought and died for freedom. / Remember all who 

served and strove / and those who patiently 

endured 

(rear face): All they hoped for, all they had, they 

gave / to save mankind themselves they scorned 

to save 

(right face): I will not cease from mental fight / nor 

shall my sword sleep in my hand / till we have 

built Jerusalem / in England’s green and pleasant 

37591 WW1 SK 582 045; Roll of Honour ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH & PARISH / THE 

GREAT WAR 1914-18 / ROLL OF HONOUR / 

OFFICERS NCOS & MEN / [NAMES] / "THEY 

LOVED NOT THEIR LIFE EVEN UNTO 

land 

DEATH" 

37590 WW1 SK 585 050; Pews In memory of the two hundred men of / this 

parish who died for their country in / the Great 

War 

37588 WW2 SK 584 044; Tablet or plaque or board (...) / and Major Raymond Johnson German TD / 

Killed in action 11th September 1944 aged 36 

37589 WW1 Names from Eric Orbell To the Glory of God / To perpetuate the memory 

of members / of this church who fell in the Great 

War / 1914 - 1918 / [names]/ "Greater love hath 

no man than this / that a man lay down his life 

for his friends" 

Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England 

John Winterton 

None Yes 

Major Raymond Johnson German TD 

George Herbert Cramp 

Carl Hugh Victor Johnson 

Percy Sharman 

Frederick George Todd 

Websites / Docs held 

Unknown Unknown http://www.policememorial.org. 

uk/Forces/Leicestershire/Leices 

tershire_Roll.htm - ? 

WW1 E-mail 8/12/2009 from CH - dedicated 

to Henry Brice by his parents. 

Contains plaque interior bearing list of 

names. Also plaque on exterior 

dedicated to Brice. 

Interior plaque with metal wreath atop: 

This institute was erected / in loving memory of 

our son / Henry Copeland Brice / Lieutenant 4 th 

Batt Leicestershire Regt / Died at Bailleul France 

/ June 11 1915 Aged 21 / “Greater love hath no 

Henry Copeland Brice / Lieutenant 4 th Batt Leicestershire 

Regt 

CH; 

LCC


reference 

10 Donisthorpe 

Factory, Bath 

Lane 


Cemetery 

12 Moat 

Community 

College 

13 St Martins 

Collegiate 

Church 

14 British Gas, 

Aylestone 

Road Depot 


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14770 WW1; WW2 Nowy headed white stone plaque with 

rearing animal in head and set on grey 

backboard. Small rectangular WW2 

addition below. Info from DK and AL. 

As per AF – Mercury cutting 15/11/96 

states plaque went for repair ten years 

prev. but was forgotten – Rededicated 

on Remembrance Sunday by Rector 

of Oadby, Rev. David Clark. 

man than this, that / a man lay down his life for 

his friends” / January 1921 Francis and Margaret 

Brice 

To honour the memory of / officers and men of / 

Donisthorpe & Company Ltd / who gave their 

lives in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / Name 

Regiment Where Killed / [names] / 1939-1945 / 

[names] 

14771 WW1 Gravestone Private, 17007, 1 Bn Leicestershire Regiment 

15/09/1916. Son of Esther Jane & the late Harry 

Brown of Leicester, KIA Somme, France. 

14773 WW1 Tablet or Plaque or Board; for Moat 

Boys School 

Thiepval Memorial. 

14769 WW1 Unknown type of memorial 59th (North Midland) Division (TE) / To the Glory 

of God / In memory of the dead / and to record 

the service / of the division in the / Great War 

1914 - 1918 / Ypres, 1917 Menin Road, Polygon 

Wood / Cambrai, 1917 St Quentin Forst battle / 

of Bapaume, 1918 Bailleuil First / Battle of 

Kemmel Albert, 1918 / (Regiments and 

14760 WW1; WW2 Brass plaque with red and black 

enamelled letters and a red plastic 

surround (replaced oak surround). In 

reception of Customer Service Centre. 

Previously in District Office on Market 

Street but moved in 1977 when this 

was demolished 

Companys) 

15 Unclear 14755 SK 580 040 - ‘Leicester Cathedral 

Bradgate Park’? - no detail, duplicate? 

16 North Memorial 

Homes, 

Stoughton 

Road 

14756 Duplicate of WMP0872? 

17 Leicester 37586 Everard Harrison / Captain RAMC / attached to 

Cathedral 

the 1st/6th Battalion / Gloucester Regiment / 

Killed in action in France / April 18th 1917 aged 

37 years / In loving remembrance 


Church 

19 Town Hall 

Square 

37585 WW2 Tablet or plaque or board To the memory of those from / St Margarets 

Works who gave / their lives in the World War 

1939 – 1945 / [Names] / Their name liveth for 

evermore 

2020 Boer War 2 

(SA) 

Wall with bronze panels bearing 

names, surmounted by three figures of 

In stone, central top: 

Glory to God: Honour the dead / peace after 

Lieut GE Heriot Middlesex Yeo Died in Cairo Hospital / 

(Director D & Co Ltd) 

Lieut CD Dixon Leicester Regt / Killed in Bazantine Le Petite 

Sergt W Hook Leicester Regt Killd Mt Kemmel 

Pte G Hook Royal Scots Killed Ypres 

Pte A Taylor Leicester Regt Killed Loos 

Pte W Bishop Leicester Regt Killed Loos 

Pte A Foster Leicester Regt Killed Ypres 

Pte J Seddon Leicester Regt Killed Vlamertinghe 

Pte E Love Leicester Regt Killed Vlamertinghe 

Pte H Deane Leicester Regt / Killed Hohenzollern Redoubt 

Pte R Spencer Northum Fus Died St Eloi 

Pte H Green Leicester Regt Killed Loos 

Pte S Wood Leicester Regt Killed Thiepval 

Pte S Taylor Leicester Regt Killed Bullecourt 

Pte H Garner 10 th Durham LI Killed Polygon Wood 

Pte W Warwick RMLI / Sunk on Monitor in Mediterranean 

Tpr. E Williams Leicester Yeo Killed in Boyles 

Pte F Stevenson Leicester Regt Killed France 

Tpr E Riches 11 th Hussars Killed Italy 

DK; 

AL; AF 


Sergt Air Gunner / Alan W Brown / RAF 

Fred Brown http://www.britishwargraves.co. 

uk/page35.htm 

WW1 c.342; WW2 14 

Everard Harrison / Captain RAMC 

Directly below inscription: 

Officers / Brigadier General Sir EPR Woodgate CB KCMG / 

AF


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Grief, Peace and War victory 

Brevet Major RB Blunt 2 nd Lancashire Fusiliers / Captain 

Cortland Gordon Mackenzie Royal Artillery / Captain Price- 

Dent 2 nd Devonshire Regiment / Captain HC Thorold The 

Leicestershire Regiment / Lieut WMP Hannah The 

Leicestershire Regiment / Lieut CP Russell The 

Leicestershire Regiment 

Five panels, left to right. 

1 st : 

The / Leicestershire / Regiment / QM Sergt: / A Johnson / 

Colour-Sergt: / T Clarke / Sergeants / WA Boulton / O 

Crowdell / G Hewitt / J Pike / WH Whitehead / Lance-Sergt: / 

WG Starkey / Corporals / J Bradshaw / JT Fletcher / A Hill / 

W Hutt / C Yates / Lance-Corporals / J Barratt / AE Dunkley 

/ JA Fletcher / J Hallam / W Harlow / H Keys 

Below section: 

Leicestershire Regt / Pt EV Morris / Brabants Horse / Pt CH 

Paulson 

2 nd : 

W Smith / E Walsh / Privates / G Alchin / JA Arnold / W 

Ashton / H Austin / HCH Bailey / R Barson / E Bassett / J 

Bent / J Bingley / A Birchmore / H Booth / FJ Boyall / C 

Bradley / H Britland / T Brown / F Bullock / T Bunn / T 

Callaghan / W Capel / FWL Carder / J Carr / R Cartwright / J 

Cave / JR Chapman / ST Cheney / WJ Cheesley / J 

Cockerill / A Coles / H Collett / H Corbett / A Croll / C Darlow 

/ T Dawson / JR Dix / JD Durrands / FE Edge / W Elkington / 

G Ellicock / J Fisher / WA Forbes / W Gilbert / R Glover / J 

Goode / E Griffin / F Hannibal / A Harriman / JR Hawkins / G 

Hazell / D Helps / J Hickey / AT Hill / JJ Hodsell / A 

Horsefield / G Hulse / J Jarvis / C Johnson / G Johnstone / J 

Kellam / G Kendall / J Kirk / R Kirkpatrick / JW Knight / JH 

Lamin / J Leader / S Lewin / T Lindsey / G Lord / H Lovell / J 

Lowe / TH Lyons / G Maddison / W Markham / H Marlow / G 

Martin / JC Martin / J Mason / N Mawbey / H Mellers / T 

Mitchell / J Moore / A Moulds / J Moule / G Neale / J 

Norman / S North / J Parker / AE Peasgood / C Porter / W 

Poultney / W Redmile / G Reynolds / JW Robinson / DH 

Russell / T Salter / J Sarson / J Sanders / E Seares / G 

Sharpe / R Shillcock / A Simpson / T Smith / WH Spizer / A 

Stanyon / A Sturgess / A Thomas / T Thwaites / J Tolley / W 

Townsend / JA Trigger / JT Tucker / W Vann / W Voyce / CP 

Vulliamy / JH Walker / S Walster / F Warner / GW Warren / 

JT Warsop / J Watkinson / A Watson / JW Wesley / L 

Weston / C Westwood / T Whitehead / T Widdowson / H 

Wildman / J Wilde / JT Wilford / W Wilson / W Woofendon / 

R Woolmer / St John’s / Ambulance / Brigade / Pt FH 

Cooper / 7 th Co Imperial / Yeomanry / Reg. Sergt. Major / H 

Blaydon / Corporal / TG Taylor / Privates / AE Baker / W 

Berry / H Carryer / JW Davis / GR Gee / AW Hull / WE 

Kennison / JF Knight / T Mills / G O’Shea / AE Partridge / FJ 

Pegg / SG Record / NC Shelton / RH Stafford / A Tayleur / F 

Woolley / 65 th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / QM Sergeant / AJ 

Roberts / WT Cockain / Privates / J Brooker / O Hall / G 

Harris / F Prentice / G Smith 

3 rd : 

J Smith / JT Turner / M Winks / 1 st Dragoon / Guards / Pt R 

Howard / 3 rd Dragoon / Guards / Pt W Robb / 5 th Dragoon / 

Guards / Pt H Clarke / 6 th Dragoon / Guards / Pt B Thirlby / 

1 st Dragoons / Pt G Hand / 6 th Dragoons / Sergeant / A 

Hanwell / 10 th Hussars / Pt TH Allen / 11 th Hussars / Pt AA 

Lea / 12 th Lancers / Sergeant / E Clee / Pt J Sedgley / 14 th 

Hussars / Pt E Dobson / 15 th Lancers / Sergeant / TH 

Hanney / 17 th Lancers / Private / E Jones / H Moore / GW 

Websites / Docs held


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Nichols / J Smith / 18 th Hussars / Pt A Shrubsole / 19 th 

Hussars / Lance Corporal / P Goodman / 39 th Co. Imperial / 

Yeomanry / Pt J Rodgers / 41 st Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt 

W Nicholson / 52 nd Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt TP Pochin / 

57 th Co. Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt AC Hudson / 105 th Co. 

Imperial / Yeomanry / Pt JA Lawton / 115 th Co. Imperial / 

Yeomanry / Pt W Bailey / Royal Horse / Artillery / Driver / H 

Crane / Royal Field / Artillery / Batt. Sergt. Major / W 

Drinkwater / Bombardier / W Brownsword / Farrier Sergt. / J 

Retallack / Gunners / A Bates / F Copeland / H Mills / FH 

Woolley / A Wykes / J Humpage / A Oswin / H Taylor / 

Royal / Garrison / Artillery / Gunner / AE Harcourt / Royal / 

Engineers / Sappers / D Cooke / A Galpin / AJ Reeve / 

Grenadier / Guards / Privates / J Booth / W Foster / W 

Gregg / A Tyler / Coldstream / Guards / Privates / J Evans / 

H Hutchins / C Vincent 

4 th : 

Scots / Guards / Pt DD Stewart / The Royal / Scots / 

Corporal / JJ Clarke / Privates / E Cleaver / C Jacques / A 

Knight / The / Northumberland / Fusiliers / Colour Sergeant / 

T Fosberry / Pt R Cox / The Royal / Warwickshire / 

Regiment / Privates / J Bagley / R Clarke / R Howard / B 

O’Shea / The Norfolk / Regiment / Corporal / CA Sword / 

The / Lincolnshire / Regiment / Sergeant / JH Frudd / Pt A 

Sharman / The Somersetshire / Light Infantry / Pt AE Lock / 

The West / Yorkshire / Regiment / Lance-Sergeant / S 

Weston / Corporal / WH Barwell / Pt J Cotter / The East / 

Yorkshire / Regiment/ Pt J Macdonald / The Royal / Scots 

Fusiliers / Privates / F Houghton / W Walton / The East / 

Lancashire / Regiment / Privates / J Stiles / TH Hewitt / The 

East / Surrey / Regiment / Pt G Knight / The South / 

Staffordshire / Regiment / Lance Corporal / H Hanham / Pt J 

Palmer / The / Dorsetshire / Regiment / Pt J McNeil / The 

South / Lancashire / Regiment / Lance Corporal / T Smith / 

The Sherwood / Foresters / Lance Corporal / A Sansome / 

W Aldred / Privates / H Henderson / JH Foyser / J Turnbull / 

W Worrad / The / Northampton / shire Regiment / Privates / 

AE Barnsley / W Curtis / F Davis / A Jarvis / W Smith / The 

Royal / Berkshire / Regiment / Pt TH Walker / The Royal / 

West Kent / Regiment / Lance Corporal / CTS Beeson / The 

Yorkshire / Light Infantry / Privates / E Jackson / GE Tuson / 

The / Shropshire / Light Infantry / Pt HJE Hinton / The / 

Middlesex / Regiment / Pt JA Pikeman / The Kings / Royal 

Rifle / Corps / Lance Corporal / WR Riley / Privates / J Bell / 

G Burdett / GH Fletcher / F Laming / J Norton / H Towle / 

WE Richardson / The / Manchester / Regiment / Pt R 

Greaves / The North / Staffordshire / Regiment / Sergeant / 

J Gadsby / The York / And Lancaster / Regiment / Pt A Lee / 

The Durham / Light Infantry / Sergeants / A Gunton / W 

Sikes / The Gordon / Highlanders / Sergeant / G Harris / The 

Queen’s / Own Cameron / Highlanders / Pt T Lydall / The 

Rifle / Brigade / Privates / B Blake / J Egan / A Gibbon / W 

Jones / Army Service / Corps / Privates / G Brierley / W 

Sweet 

5 th : 

The Royal / Army Medical / Corps / Privates / HW Harrold / 

W Markley / BHH Tollington / The Army / Ordnance / Corps / 

Pt FC Reeves / The Scottish / Horse / Pt E Smith / The 

South / African / Constabulary / Privates / HE Forknall / JB 

Jacques / The British / South African / Police / Pt A 

Hazlerigg / Cape Medical / Staff / Pt TH Wollerton 

Below: 

65 th Compy Imperial / Yeomanry / Sergt F Payne / Pt G 

Weston 

20 Leicester 37516 WW2 Book of Remembrance kept in wooden Leicester Normandy Veterans Association / WW2 ? No 



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Cathedral case with glass top Leicester And District Branch No 45 / [Names] 


Cathedral 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 

37517 WW2 Framed photograph with associated 

inscription 

"I'm trying to stick / whatever happens. If I don't 

come out of it just / rest content that I have / 

tried to do my job/ faithfully/ Vivian Redlich" 

The above words, rapidly pencilled on a scrap of 

paper / are the last words of a modern martyr. 

Soon after / writing them Vivian Redlich, a young 

Anglican / priest was taken by the Japanese 

from his / mission house in New Guinea and 

beheaded on a nearby / beach. The staff were 

killed and the mission destroyed / at the time of 

the feast of the Transfiguration 1942 / Vivian 

Redlich was a Leicestershire man his father 

being / Rector of Little Bowden where Vivian 

was brought up. / Vivian was trained at 

Chichester Theological College and / after a 

period in England served five years with the / 

brotherhood of St Andrew in Central 

Queensland / His term of duty completed, he 

offered himself for work / as a missionary in New 

Guinea where he quickly found / himself 

involved in the war with Japan / His farewell 

message is preserved in St Pauls Cathedral. 

37723 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / In / loving / memory / of / Thomas Harry 

Preston / 2nd Lt 6th North Staffs Regt / Killed in 

action September 30th 1918 / Enterred (sic) in 

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery/ Belgium, aged 

23 years / Only / grandson / of the / above 

37689 WW1 Addition to family gravestone .../ Also of Frank / younger son of the above / 

who fell in action at Ypres May 13th 1915 / Aged 

37687 WW1 Addition to black marble family 

gravestone. Has winged figure 

standing on top of the stone. Grave 

ref. CD 0272 

37688 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave 

ref. CD 0314 

37519 WW2 Book of Remembrance kept in oak 

case with glazed top 

37521 WW1 Oval white marble tablet with scroll 

effect borders and black lettering on a 

slate mount. Centre of bottom has 

coloured coat of arms. 

37581 WW1 Book of Remembrance kept in oak 

case with glass top. Small gilt carved 

figures surround case with small 

painted shields (emblems?) between 

figures. 

21 years 

... / Also Ernest Harold KRR / Youngest beloved 

son of the above / Fell in action in France July 

30th 1915 / aged 21 / They shall be mine said 

the Lord of Hosts / when I make up my jewels 

Vivian Redlich 

Sheffield / Frank 

Barwell / Ernest Harold KRR 

In / affectionate remembrance / of / Frances John Curtis 

Louise (Fanny) / the dearly beloved wife of / 

Arthur W Bruce / who died 12th June 1917 / 

aged 50 years / Also / John Curtis, youngest son 

/ 2nd Lieut 34th Leicesters / Killed in action in 

France / 22nd March 1918 / aged 21 years / 

Also / Arthur William Bruce, / who died 19th Dec 

1937 / in his 33rd year / Reunited 

Unknown Vivian B Redlich 

Tablet: 

Killed in action / in Flanders 8th June 1917/ W 

Vaughan Sculthorpe / BA Oxon 2nd Lieutenant / 

London Regiment (Queens) / Aged 26 years and 

1 month / Dearly loved / and only child of / Mr 

and Mrs Sculthorpe / Leicester / in loving 

remembrance 

On slate backboard: 

"You were our pride / we dreamed great things 

for you / God intervened and so the dream came 

true" / Father and mother 

To the Glory of God and in honoured / memory 

of the officers, warrant officers / noncommissioned 

officers and men from the / City 

and County of Leicester who fought / and fell in 

the Great War 1914-1918. This goldess / book 

containing a record of eleven thousand of / their 

names is here preserved as a / memorial of their 

valour / and sacrifice. 

W Vaughan Sculthorpe / BA Oxon 2nd Lieutenant / London 

Regiment (Queens) 

WW1 c.11,000 



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Church 


Church 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 

35 Brice Memorial 

Hall 

36 Clarendon Park 

Congregational 

Church 


Cemetery 

38 Bishop Street 

Methodist 

Church 


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37582 WW2 Avenue of trees with dedicatory rough 

hewn polished granite block placed 

nearby. Inscription carved into top of 

stone. 

37584 WW1 Rectangular bronze plaque with laurel 

leaf border in relief, set on a downward 

sloping concrete base. 

37579 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised lettering 

and names in two columns. Decorative 

border and laurel wreath at top centre 

in relief. 

37566 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised lettering 

and regimental badge in relief at top 

centre. Laurel garland in relief as 

border. 

37564 Non-Combat 

Deaths 


Deaths 

Nowy-headed bronze plaque with 

raised lettering and a carved 

decorative border of oak leaves and 

acorns mounted on wooden backing. 

Regimental badge in relief at top 

centre. 

Nowy-headed bronze plaque with 

raised lettering and a relief border of 

laurel mounted on a wooden 

backboard. Regimental badge at top 

centre. 

14778 WW1 Bronze plaque with inscription in black 

lettering set within a carved wooden 

surround, which holds inscription in 

relief. 

Previously held at the Congregational 

Church on Queens Road - moved 

when sold. 

14779 WW1 Bronze plaque with inscription in relief 

set into a marble surround. Plaque has 

flower in relief at each corner and a 

foliate pattern at either side of the last 

line of the main inscription. 

37597 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave 

ref. UA 0017 

37598 WW1 Brass plaque with a decorative floral 

border including roses covering screw 

holes in each corner. 

Names supplied by E Orbell. 

This row of trees is planted / to the memory of 

those from St Margarets Works / who gave their 

lives in the World War 1939 - 1945 / [Names] / 

Their name liveth for evermore 

To the memory of those from / St Margarets 

works who gave / their lives in the great war 

1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Greater love hath no 

man than this" 

1914 1918 / In honoured memory of the / 

employees of TH Downing & Co / Limited who 

with courage and / faith at their country's call / 

laid down their lives that we / who remain might 

live in freedom and peace / [names] / "Their 

name liveth for evermore" 

In loving memory of / Colonel William Mogg 

Rolph / (The Leicestershire Regt. 1861 - 1895) / 

He commanded the 1st Battalion in / Bermuda, 

Halifax NS and the West / Indies 1890 - 1894, 

commanded the / 17th Regimental District 1896 

- 1899 / Born 11th July 1842 - died 10th July 

1918 

In memoriam / Lieut Colonel JGL Burnett / 

Commanding 1st Battalion the Leicestershire 

Regiment / Who died at sea on the 9th Septr 

1904 and is buried at Aden / This tablet was 

erected to his memory by all ranks of the 

battalion which he commanded. 

Sacred to the memory of / Major General 

George Tito Brice CB / Colonel of the 

Leicestershire Regiment / who died on the 21st 

September 1905 / this memorial was erected by 

past & present officers of this Regiment. 

To the Glory of God / In memory of / Members of 

Stafford Sunday Morning Class / who gave their 

lives in the Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names] 

To the glorious memory of the / following 

members and adherents / of this church who 

gave thier lives / in the Great War 1914 - 1918 / 

[Names] 

… / In loving memory of Sgt Sydney Smith / 

(Rifle Brigade) GT Grandson of the above aged 

20 years / Interred British Cemetery Wainville 

Sept 20th 1919 

Mansfield St Mission / In loving & grateful / 

memory of the / heroes / associated with this 

mission / who gave their lives in the / Great War 

1914 - 1918 / Greater love hath no man than this 

/ That a man lay down his life for his friends / 

[Names] / At rest 

WW2 ? 

WW1 ? 

WW1 25 

Colonel William Mogg Rolph 

Lieut Colonel JGL Burnett 

Major General George Tito Brice CB / Colonel of the 

Leicestershire Regiment 

Percy Beck 

Herbert Crofts 

Percy Clifford 

Fred Luck 

George Jarvis 

Fred Jarvis 

Oscar Gait 

Joseph Lister 

Walter Neale 

Horace Crofts 

George Lines 

Reg Ockenden 

Ernest Peacock 

Walter Swan 

Arthur Tyres 

George Knight 

Horace Postlethwaite 

WW1 24 

Sgt Sydney Smith / (Rifle Brigade) GT 

Tom Weston 

Jack Sawbridge 

Fred Lacey 

George Lacey 

George Grocan 

Harry Roper 



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Cemetery 


Cathedral 


Cemetery 

42 Uppingham 

Road Methodist 

Church 


Methodist 

Church 


Church 


Cathedral 


Cemetery 


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37599 Colonial India Addition to family gravestone ... / Also to the memory of / their eldest son / 

George Henry Quinn / who fell in action at 

Sarahser / India Nov 9th 1897 / aged 23 years / 


(SA) 

Three light stained glass window 

featuring saints with tracery lights. 

37595 WW1 Addition to granite family gravestone. 

Grave ref. CD 0320 

37608 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised ornamental 

border. Moved from All Saints 

Methodist Church on Curzon Street in 

1998 when sold for redevelopment. 

Names provided by E Orbell. 

37594 WW1 Plaque with associated Roll of Honour 

containing photographs. Moved from 

hall on Granby Street in 1920, which 

had been used as a school room 

between 1892 - 1919. 

37600 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque with 

inscription in relief 

37601 Crimean War 

(1853-1856) 

Stone tablet with black lettering and 

pitched top with finials either side and 

brackets at base. Names in three 

columns and regimental badge carved 

at base. Further carvings of leaves 

along base border and columns 

carved at sides. 

37606 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Grave in 

D section. 

Peace perfect peace 

To the memory of Lt Col Reader / In affectionate 

remembrance of Lt Col Frances Reader who 

departed this / life at Pieter Maritzberg, Natal on 

10th November 1898 / This window was 

dedicated by officers and men past and present 

of the (--) Battalion Leicestershire regiment 

… / Lance Sergt Bernard Noel Sharp / Fourth 

Leicestershire Regiment / Younger son of the 

above / Killed in action in Belgium / April 7th 

1915 aged 27 years 

To the Glory of God and / in grateful 

remembrance / of the men from this church / 

who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914 - 

1918 / [names] / "Their name liveth for 

evermore" 

On Card: 

Temperance Hall Mission / Granby St 1892 - 

1919 / The names of the roll above / once had 

faces too / here then are fading photographs / of 

just a few 

On Plaque: 

In memory of the men of / Temperance Hall 

Mission / who fell in the Great War / [Names] 

Erected by his brother officers of the CLB / to 

the memory of / Leslie Corah / Captain 4th Battn 

Leicestershire Regt / Killed in action at the 

Hohenzollern / Redoubt, October 13th 1915 / 

When he had trained others in the love of / God 

and country, he gave himself. 

By the / officers / non-commissioned / officers / 

and privates / of the 17th (Leicestershire) / 

Regiment, / to the memory of their comrades / 

who died in the service of their / country during 

the / Crimean Campaign / AD 1854 to AD 1856 / 

[Names] 

In loving memory of / John Otway Cave / who 

died March 18th 1898 / in the 76th year of his 

age / "at rest" / Also Martha Ann Cave / the 

beloved wife of the above / who died Dec 24th 

1914 / aged 78 years / Peace perfect peace / 

Also Charles Otway Cave / Grandson of the 

Harry Shepherd 

Bert Wood 

John Spriggs 

George King 

Tom Chater 

Herbert Kenney 

Walter Hill 

Arthur Rylett 

George Henry Quinn 

Lt Col Frances Reader 

Clifford Willson Brant 

Herbert Leonard Jelley 

Leonard Ernest Marsh 

John Samuel Whitmore 

P Aspital 

W Andrews 

F Clarke 

J Hickling 

G Hook 

H Makepeace 

A Massey 

S Radford 

A Smith 

AE Soames 

AH Jones 

C Javes 

J Watson 

G Simpkins 

A Warren 

AC Burdett 

C Stearn 

Leslie Corah / Captain 4th Battn Leicestershire Regt 

CW c.213 

Charles Otway Cave 



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Cathedral 


Cemetery 


Methodist 

Church 


Cemetery 


Methodist 

Church 


Cemetery 

37607 Burma (19 th 

C) 


? 

Nowy-headed brass plaque with 

incised lettering and stone surround. 

Names in two columns with relief 

carving of leaves in top corners of 

stone surround. Crossed flags and 

crest of Leicestershire Regiment at top 

of plaque. 

37626 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. 

Grave ref. CD 0093. 

37605 WW1 Bronze plaque with patterned border. 

Cast letter may have been gilded. 

Lots of info held from E Orbell. 

37604 WW1 Addition polished black granite family 

gravestone. 

Grave ref. UD 0410. 

37602 WW1 Bronze plaque. 

Moved from Methodist Church on 

Humberstone Road in 1984 when 

church demolished. 

Further info and names provided by E 

Orbell. 

37603 WW1 Addition to polished black family 

gravestone. 

Grave reference CD 0118. 

above / who died / serving his country in France 

/ on Oct 17th 1914 / Aged 30 years / "Peace 

after victory" 

Sacred to the memory of the officers / noncommissioned 

officers and men / of the / 2nd 

Battalion (17th) Leicestershire Regt / who were 

killed in action and died in / Burma during 1888 

and 1889 / [Names] 

In loving memory of / William James Shaw, / 

died 4th Decr 1931 - aged 67 years / Also of 

Annie, wife of the above / died 27th Jany 1939 - 

aged 74 years / Also Eustace William Leslie, / 

son of the above (1st/1st Leic Yeomanry) / 

missing at Ypres 13th May 1915 / aged 23 years 

To the Glory / of God / and in memory of those / 

connected with this / church who were / faithful 

unto death / and gave their lives / in the Great 

War / 1914 - 1919 / [names] / "Greater love hath 

no man than this" 

In loving memory of / Florence / the beloved wife 

of / Alfred Frederick Allen, / who departed this 

life / Oct 2nd 1914, / aged 45 years / A loving 

wife, mother and friend, / one of the best God 

could send / Also in tender loving memory of / 

George Frederick / son of the above / 1/4th 

Leicestershire Regt / who was reported missing 

Oct 13th 1915 / after the storming of the 

Hohenzollen Redoubt / aged 23 years / He 

answered the call, greater love hath no man / 

Peace perfect peace 

To the Glory of God / in loving memory of the 

members / of this church and school who / fell in 

the great war 1914 - 1918 / [names] / "Greater 

love hath no man than this / that a man lay down 

his life for his friends" 

... / Also Corpl EC Matthews MM / 1st Irish 

Guards / who nobly fell in action 27th August 

1918 aged 37 years / Interred at Mory Abbey 

France 

Burma 19C c.27 

Shaw / Eustace William Leslie 

Pte Ernest Baker 

Sgt Herbert Brown 

Pte John Brewin 

AB William Cheney 

AB Arthur Churchouse 

Pte Tom Churchouse 

Sec Lt W Kingsley Callard 

Pte H Cooper 

Pte William Carter 

Lieut Edwin A Elson 

Sgt WS Fox 

Sgt Walter Gladding 

Sgt Alfred Goddard 

Pte Tom Harriman 

Pte Fred Harriman 

Tpr Claud Herington 

Pte Fred W Jarvis 

AB Frank Lane 

Tpr Fred E Middleton 

Cpl Chris Sharpe 

Gunner Arthur Tester 

Capt John A Wakerley 

Pte William Weir 

Allen / George Frederick 

J Bowles 

A Braun 

T Churchouse 

A Churchouse 

J Hunt 

FF Horton 

AA Johns 

H Lovett 

TW Rowell 



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53 Church of the 

Nativity, 

Cavendish 

Road 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


? 

37625 WW1; WW2 Prayer desk with separate WW1 and 

WW2 brass plaques attached. 

Moved from Vernon Road in 1966 

when church closed and merged with 

Cavendish Road congregation. 

Names provided by E Orbell. 


Grave ref. UB 0029. 


Grave in D section. 


Grave in D section. 

57 Natwest Bank 37612 WW1 National Provincial Bank Employees 

Union Plaque in bronze with laurel 

wreaths at top. 


Cemetery 

59 St Nicholas 

Church 

60 Clarendon Park 

Congregational 

Church 


Cemetery 



37592 WW1 Nowy-headed white marble tablet with 

incised lettering in black and a brown 

marble laurel wreath with ribbons inset 

into head. 

14780 WW1 Stained glass window with figure of 

Christ holding a lamp and a foliate 

border around the edge. Image of 

Bailleul (?) in lower left corner. 

14782 WW1 Rough hewn granite wall with lead 

lettering on smooth granite scroll. 

To the / Glory of God / and in memory of the 

men / connected with this church/who were 

faithful unto death / and gave their lives / in the 

Great War 1914 - 1919 / [names] / "Greater love 

hath no man than this, that a man lay down his 

life for his friends" 

1939 - 1945 / In sacred memory of Eric Simms 

RAF / Died prisoner of war May 25 1945 / 

greater love hath no man / 'Loving memories 

cannot die' 

In / loving memory / of / Samuel Lennard, / born 

June 5th 1851 / died September 14th 1901, / 

also of / Samuel Frederic / younger son of 

Samuel & Annie Lennard, / Second Lieutenant 

4th Leicestershire Regiment, / killed in action 

near Souchey, March 30th 1918/ aged 21 years 

/ and of his brother / Edward Wood, / Second 

Lieutenant 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, / 

believed killed in action near Passchendale, / 

November 30th 1917, / aged 28 years / and of 

Annie, / widow of Samuel Lennard, / born April 

21st 1863, / died august 18th 1939 

To the dear memory of / John Moore Thornton, / 

who died February 26th 1887, / in the 47th year 

of his age; / Sarah Ann / wife of the above / who 

died October 14th 1922, / in the 78th year of her 

age, / John Willey, / eldest son of the above / 

who died at Johannesburg, South Africa / June 

5th 1889 / in the 25th year of his age, / Edward 

Reginald, / youngest son of the above / who 

died in infancy / "We cannot, lord, thy purpose 

see / but all is well that's done by thee"/ Capt SP 

Thornton / 11th battalion Leicestershire Regt / 

died of wounds in Bethune / Dec 5th 1916 aged 

39 years 

In / loving remembrance of / Francis John Moore 

/ who died March 28th 19-- / aged 84 years / 

Also of their daughter / Emily Maria Moore, / 

who died June 15th 1911, / aged 22 years / also 

of their son / William Bowerman Moore, / killed 

in France Aug 7th 1917, / aged 34 years / Thy 

will be done 

NPBE / A tribute / to the 2681 members / of the 

staff of this bank / who served in / the Great War 

/ 1914-1918 / and in honoured memory of / the 

415 who gave their / lives for their country 

... / In proud and loving memory of / Francis 

Nathaniel Tarr / only son of the above / Lieut 

1/4th Leicestershire Regiment (TF) / Killed in 

action near Ypres July 18th 1915 / aged 27 

years 

In loving memory / of / Francis Clifford Blunt / 

2nd. Lieut 4th Leicestershire Regt / who died 

Oct 14th 1915 / of wounds received in action on 

Oct 13th 1915 / aged 24 years / buried in the 

military cemetery at Chocques / Affectionate, 

pure and brave / Requiescat in pace 

To the Glory of God & in loving memory of / 

Henry Copeland Brice / Lieut 4th Leicestershire / 

Regt Bailleul France / June 11 1915 / Dulce et 

decorum est / pro patria mori 

To the beloved memory of / William Porter, / 

who died August 1st 1887, / aged 28 years / 'In 

G Ashmore 

EE Bradock 

A Butler 

NH Capewell 

H Carter 

JH Grain 

H Houghton 

FH Jennings 

FEJ Peabody 

J Scotton 

EP Thacker 

Eric Simms RAF 

Samuel Frederic / Lennard 

Lennard / Edward Wood 

Capt SP Thornton / 11th battalion Leicestershire Regt 

William Bowerman Moore 

WW1 c.415 

Francis Nathaniel Tarr 

Francis Clifford Blunt 

Henry Copeland Brice / Lieut 4th Leicestershire / Regt 

Porter / Fred 



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Cemetery 


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Cemetery 


Nativity 

67 Methodist 

Church, 

Uppingham 

Road 


Cathedral 

69 Methodist 

Church, 

Uppingham 

Road 

37615 20 th Century 

Wars 


? 

Roll of Honour within oak case with 

glass top. Commemorates period 

between the wars. 



37621 WW1 Dedicated Book of Remembrance 

containing names within oak case with 

glass top, with associated wooden 

panelling listing battles. Case has 

tracery carving at front and contains a 

crucifix which was apparently saved 

from Ypres Cathedral. 

37622 WW1 Addition to granite family headstone. 

Grave ref. CA 0024. 

37623 WW1 Stained glass single light window with 

rounded top. Centre has St George 

slaying dragon with border of crosses, 

Tudor roses and 8 regimental badges 

(Lincs Regt, Royal Artillery, Leics Regt 

(x2), Royal Flying Corps, Cheshire 

Regt, South Staffordshire Regt, Kings 

Own Scottish Borderers). 

37620 WW2 Wooden board in shape of a framed 

scroll with a carved ornamental leaf 

device above the text. Moved from the 

Methodist Church on Curzon Street in 

1998 when the church was sold for 

redevelopment. 

37619 WW2 Book of Remembrance held in oak 

case with glass top. 

37617 WW1 Framed and glazed wooden board. 

Moved from Highfields P Methodist 

Church in 1967 to Curzon Street, then 

to Uppingham Road in 1998 when 

Curzon Street closed. 

hope of eternal life' / Also Ellen, beloved wife of 

the above / who died January 11th 1927, / aged 

67 years / 'Into the dawn' beloved mother / Also 

Fred, son of the above, / who died in action in 

France, Sept 22nd 1917, aged 37 years / 'Thy 

will be done' 

Unknown 20C ? 

… / Also private Josiah Hubbard / son of the 

above / and beloved husband of Nellie Hubbard 

/ Killed in action in Italy June 15th 1918 / Buried 

in Magna Boschi British cemetery / aged 36 

years 

To the Glory of God and in honoured memory of 

the officers / warrant officers, non-commissioned 

officers and men of the / Leicestershire regiment 

who fell in the Great War 1914-1919 / This 

chapel of St George is dedicated as a memorial 

of their Valour and sacrifice. 

… / Also / Frederick John Ashwell / 2nd Batt the 

Kings Royal Rifle Corps / killed in action on the 

Aisne / 14th Sept 1914 / aged 26 years / Frank 

Elmit / 1st Rifle Brigade / Killed in action near 

Arras / 21st May 1917 aged 33 years 

1914 – 1919 / St George / Their name liveth / 

For evermore 

In honoured memory of / the men of this church 

who / made the supreme sacrifice / in the World 

War 1939 – 1945 / [Names] / "We will remember 

them" 

Josiah Hubbard 

Frederick John Ashwell / 2nd Batt the Kings Royal Rifle 

Corps 

Frank Elmit / 1st Rifle Brigade 

WW2 4 

Unknown WW2 ? 

Highfields PM church / In honour of the men 

from this / church and Sunday school / who 

served in the Great War 1914 - 1918 / 

[names] / "Endure hardness as a good soldier of 

/ Jesus Christ" 

E King 

H Beal 

E Brown 

H Cooper 

G Chaplin 

A Chamberlain 

C Copperwheat 

L James 

A Lamburn 

F Lord 

G Lord 

A Lovell 

H Mogford 

E Munton 

E Pollard 

H Parbery 

H Parr 

E Whitbread 

W Wood 

P Sewell 

W Sewell 

70 Welford Road 37618 WW1 Addition to family gravestone with … / Also Eric Henry Janson Teasdale / Lieut Eric Henry Janson Teasdale / Lieut ASC 



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Cemetery rough hewn cross carved to mimic tree 

trunk on top. 



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Nativity 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

81 University of 

Leicester 

ASC / beloved younger son of the above / who 

died on active service in France / January 21st 

1917 aged 20 years / Also Edward George 

Teasdale / 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment / 

the beloved elder son of the above EH Teasdale 

37686 WW2 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / my husband / Thomas 

Pitcairn Shearer / LRCPS Edin / Sied in his 78th 

year 1936 / Lt Col GP Shearer, RE / younger 

son of the above / Killed on active service / Mar 

28th 1941/ Elands Bay, South Africa / aged 33 

years / Grace Arrivee Shearer / Beloved wife of / 

Thomas / died January 19th 1949 / aged 79 

years 

37685 WW1 Addition to family gravestone ... / Harold Bemrose Turner / Died of wounds 

received in action in France / interred St Severs 

Cemetery Rouen January 3rd 1892 - September 

37631 WW1 Addition to pink granite family 

gravestone. 


37632 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in form 

of a grey marble Latin cross on fourstepped 

base. 




(SA) 


Brass plaque on wooden mount with 

raised lettering and regimental badge 

in relief at top centre. 

Pink marble tablet with black marble 

surrounds and carved inscriptions. 

UKNIWM record does not mention 

window in description. 

37629 WW2 Stone carved figure of St Michael 

holding flaming sword and scales and 

with gold wings and silver armour, 

mounted on wall on wooden surround 

with brass plaque beneath. 

Moved from St James Church in 1980 

when it merged with Cavendish Road 

church. 


5th 1918 / ... 

... / William Albert Ferguson / 2nd Lieut 1/4th 

Leicestershire Regiment / who died of wounds in 

France on 15th May 1917 / Buried in Noeusc- 

les-Mines aged 29 / Though dead yet speaketh 

... / Also / Stanley / their 5th son / born Sept 12th 

1887 / Killed in action / Jan 12th 1918 / Greater 

love hath no man 

Erected by / his brother officers / in memory of 

Captain HS Logan / the Leicestershire Regiment 

/ who died on 9th May 1908 / of wounds 

received in action / whilst commanding / a 

detachment of / Soudanese troops / near 

Mesellamia, Soudan / on 1st May 1908 

To the Glory of God and in memory of the 

officers, non-commisioned officers and men of 

the Leicestershire Regiment who were killed in 

action / or died of wounds of disease in the 

South African war 1899-1902. This window and 

tablet is dedicated by the four battalions of the 

Regiment 

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of / 

Gunner Major Cooper RA / A faithful and 

devoted server / at this church who died in / a 

Japanese prisoner of war camp June 10th 1942 

/ Requiescat in pace / Given by the congregation 


... / Norman Arthur Parker / Killed in action 13th 

Oct 1915 aged 19 years 

37628 WW1 Addition to grey slate family 

In memoriam / Stockdale Harrison / Architect 

headstone. 

died Nov / 10th 1914 aged 69 years / Marianne 


the wife / of the above died / Dec 12th 1923 

aged 75 / Gregaory, the 4th son / died Oct 20th 

1889, / aged 6 years / Margaret infant / died Oct 

5th 1891 / Everard Harrison / Capt RAMC (T) / 

3rd son / Killed in action in France / Apr 18th 

1917 aged 37 

37635 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in form ... / Also to the dear memory of / Kenneth Hugh 

of Aberdeen granite obelisk. 

Pegg / Lieutenant in the Leicestershire 


Regiment / younger son of the above / who was 

killed near / Orah Mesopotamia / on February 

22nd 1916 / aged 24 years / ... 

37636 WW2 Wooden bench with dedicatory plaque In memory of former students of University 

College Leicester / who served in World War II 

and forfeited their lives. / Ut vitam habeant / 

Harold Bemrose Turner 

William Albert Ferguson / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire 

Regiment 

Lea / Stanley 

Captain HS Logan / the Leicestershire Regiment 

130 

Gunner Major Cooper RA 

Norman Arthur Parker 

Everard Harrison / Capt RAMC (T) 

Kenneth Hugh Pegg 

WW2 6 



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Cemetery 


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Cathedral 


Cemetery 

87 University of 


88 Great Hall, 

Charnwood 

Street School 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


? 




Grave ref. UA 0482. 

37645 WW2 Brass plaque with regimental crest at 

top. 


top. 



37637 WW1 Hall or Institute, Fielding Johnson 

Building 

37638 WW1; WW2 Copper panel with raised lettering in 

polished copper and dividing columns 

in oxidised copper. Medallion at top 

featuring St George and the Dragon. 


top 

37668 WW2 Three light stained glass window 

featuring St George slaying the dragon 

and the emblem of the Leicestershire 

Regiment. Includes list of regimental 

campaigns and decorative borders in 

left and right lights. Inscription at 

bottom. Tracery lights also include 

shields. 

37653 WW1 Addition to family gravestone of 

limestone. 

Grave ref. CC 0022. 

37654 WW1 Addition of family gravestone of 

granite. 


[names] 

… / Also Capt Arthur John Wakerley / Dearly 

loved only son of Arthur & BE Wakerley / Killed 

in action near Lens, France 8 June 1917 / Aged 

23 years interred in Loos British Cemetery / A 

good soldier of Jesus Christ 

John Maurice Legge / 1st Sherwood Foresters / 

Killed in action Suvla Bay Gallipoli Aug 9 1915 / 

Aged 26 years 

In memory of / Major / George Guy Barry / 

Anderson / 2nd BN / Leicestershire Regt / Killed 

in action / Crete 23rd May 1941 

In memory of / Major / Arthur / Geoffrey / Peter 

Withington / 2nd Battalion Leicestershire / 

Regiment / Killed in action / Enfidaville / Tunisia 

5th May 1943 / aged 35 

In loving memory of / Harry Gustavus Fairall / 

2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment / The 

beloved son of / Charles Harry and Fanny Fairall 

/ who died November 4th 1918 / Aged 24 years / 

"Duty nobly done" / Also / Fanny / beloved 

mother of the above / who died Oct 1st 1944 / 

aged 70 years / Also Charles Harry Fairall / 

beloved husband of the above / who died 

January 7th 1950 

To commemorate the following / who fell in the 

Great War of 1914-1918 / Relatives and friends 

made gifts to this college / [names] / Ut vitam 

habeant / Mrs Fanny Henrietta Knox Teasdale 

bequeathed one / moiety of her residuary estate 

to this college in / memory of her two sons who 

were killed in the / Great War of 1914-1918 

Private Edward George Teasdale / and 

Lieutenant Eric Henry Jonson Teasdale 

In memoriam / of those from Charnwood St / 

Council School who gave their / lives in the 

Great War / [names] / Those who come after 

see to it that their names be not forgotten / 

Managers teachers old scholars and friends 

1923 / 1939-1945 / [names] 

To the Glory of God / and in loving memory / of / 

Herbert Stoney Smith / Lt Colonel commanding 

1st Battalion / the 17th Leicestershire Regiment/ 

who was killed in action / Poperinghe October 

22nd 1915 / aged 47 years / Erected by his 

widow 

Central light: In Memory of / the officers / 

Warrant Officers / non-commissioned / officers & 

men who / gave their lives for / their country / 

1939-1945 

Left and right lights: [lists of campaigns] 

… / Also of 2nd Lieut Frank Woollerton MC 

KOYLI / Beloved son of Richard & Annie 

Woollerton / who was killed in France Oct 3rd 

1918 in his 25th year / Come unto me all ye that 

are weary and I will give you rest 

… / To the dear memory of / JB Billston (Bert) / 

Grandson of the above W & SV Billson / Killed in 

Egypt February 12th 1917 / aged 24 years / He 

did his duty 

93 Welford Road 37655 Boer War 2 Addition to family gravestone. William Henry Whitehead / who died at Stander 

Capt Arthur John Wakerley 

John Maurice Legge / 1st Sherwood Foresters 

Major / George Guy Barry / Anderson / 2nd BN / 

Leicestershire Regt 

Major / Arthur / Geoffrey / Peter Withington / 2nd Battalion 

Leicestershire / Regiment 

Harry Gustavus Fairall / 2nd Lieut 1/4th Leicestershire 

Regiment 

Private Edward George Teasdale 

Lieutenant Eric Henry Jonson Teasdale 

WW1 60; WW2 5 

Herbert Stoney Smith / Lt Colonel commanding 1st Battalion 

/ the 17th Leicestershire Regiment 

2nd Lieut Frank Woollerton MC KOYLI 

JB Billston (Bert) 



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Cemetery (SA) Grave ref. CB 0071. S Africa / January 4th 1902 / aged 21 / From the 

service of his country / in the flower of his 


Cemetery 


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Cathedral 


Cemetery 


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Cemetery 



37651 Afghanistan 

(19 th C) 

105 Castle Gardens 37661 Wars of the 

Roses (1455- 

1487) 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

Wall mounted brass plaque with 

incised lettering and border of 

servicemen in uniform in relief. 

37627 WW1 Large stained glass window with five 

main lights and additional tracery lights 

above and small rose window at top. 


Grave ref. CC 0033. 

37656 Korea Brass plaque with relief border of 

laurel wreath and emblems at base of 

United Nations and at top of 

Leicestershire Regiment mounted on 

wooden panelling. 

37657 WW1 Addition to family gravestone of 

granite. 

Grave ref. CMA 0821. 

37665 WW1 Two very large gilt candlesticks with 

carved design on shaft and inscription 

around base. 

37666 WW1 Addition to black marble gravestone. 

Grave ref. UN 2315. 


Grave ref. UH 0059. 


Grave ref. UC 0172. 


Grave ref. UB 0812. 

Bronze figure of Richard III on roughly 

cut stone plinth set on two tiered base. 

37662 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in 

granite. 

Grave ref. E 1802. 



manhood / he passed to God 

... / Also of 2nd Lieut GW Victor Hughes / KOYLI 

/ Beloved son of John H and Olive M Hughes / 

Killed in France No(---) 1917 aged 19 years 

In memory of the officers and soldiers / of 1st 

Battalion of the Leicestershire Regt / who lost 

their lives in / the Afghanistan campaign 1878 - 

1879 / [names] 

Dedicated to the officer / warrant officers / noncommissioned 

officers and men of the / 

Leicestershire Regiment who fell in the Great 

War 1914-1919 

… / Also of / Paul Meredith Steeds / Killed in 

action in Flanders Oct 12th 1917 / aged 23 

years 

Royal Leicestershire Regiment / Roll of Honour / 

of those who lost their lives / during the 

campaign in Korea / 1950-1952 / [names] / Also 

killed serving with this regiment 

… / Also in loving memory of / Private WE 

Herbert Willson / aged 24 years / killed in action 

April 29th 1917 / buried in Loos cemetery 

In grateful memory of Peggy Stevenson YMCA 

Croix de Guerre avec Palme who died for 

England at Etaples May 30 1918 

… / Also Private WT Jones / Killed in action 

August 14th 1916 / Interred Arras Military 

Cemetery 

Sacred to the memory of / Lieutenant R Scott- 

Green / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt / Fell at the 

Hohenzollen Redoubt / Oct 13th 1915 aged 20 / 

"Dulce et decorum est / pro patria mori" 

… / Also of / James Clive Ellis / 2nd Lieut Tank 

Corps only son of / James Bancroft Ellis who 

was / taken prisoner and died of wounds in a 

German field hospital April 21st 1918 / aged 19 

years 9 months 

… / In loving memory of / Pte Cecil Calvert KLR 

/ Grandson of the above / Killed in France June 

11th 1918 / aged 19 years / "Loved by all that 

knew him" 

Side 1: Richard III / King of England / 1483-1485 

Side 2: Killed Bosworth / 22 nd August 1485 / 

Piteously slain fighting manfully / In the thickest 

press of his enemies / Buried in Leicester 

Side 3: Born Fotheringay / A good lawmaker for 

the Ease and / Solace of the common people / 

2 nd October 1452 

Side 4: This statue by James Butler RA / Is a gift 

to the city of Leicester / From the members of 

the Richard III society / And others throughout 

the world / Patron of the appeal fund / His Grace 

the Duke of Rutland / Unveiled 31st July 1980 

by / HR Princess Alice / Duchess of Gloucester / 

On behalf of HRH the Duke of Gloucester 

… / Also of / Gilbert Frederick Shelton / 

Youngest son of the above / who died Sept 23rd 

1918 / of wounds received in action / on that day 

in France / aged 20 years 

Pte Francis Richards / 26th Battalion Royal 

Fusiliers / Killed in action France Sept 29th 1916 

aged 41 years / Nobly lived and nobly died 

2nd Lieut GW Victor Hughes / KOYLI 

Afghanistan (19th C) 48 

Paul Meredith Steeds 

Korea 52 

Peggy Stevenson YMCA Croix de Guerre avec Palme 

Private WT Jones 

Lieutenant R Scott-Green / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt 

James Clive Ellis / 2nd Lieut Tank Corps 

Pte Cecil Calvert KLR 

Richard III / King of England / 1483-1485 

Gilbert Frederick Shelton 

Pte Francis Richards / 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 



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117 Peace Walk, 

Victoria Park 


Victoria Park 


Cemetery 


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Grave ref. TA 2607. 


Grave ref. UT 1205 

37673 WW1 Nowy-headed bronze plaque with 

raised lettering and crest of 

Leicestershire Regiment at top centre. 

Relief border of laurel garland. 

37674 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in pink 

granite. 

Grave in section UT. 




Grave ref. CD0066. 


Grave ref. CF 1272. 


Grave ref. D480. 


Grave ref. U 0126. 

37676 Spanish Civil 

War (1936- 

1939) 


Deaths 

Low granite polished block set into 

ground with gilt lettering. Gilt spray of 

leaves on each side of inscription. 

Low granite polished block set into 

ground with gilt lettering. 

… / Also of Harry Hughes (Royal Engineers) / 

only son of the above / and beloved husband of / 

Edith M Girdlestone 

… / Also Pte George Samuel Hubbard / 1st Leic 

Regt / Killed in action near Delville Wood / Sept 

15th 1916 / aged 26 years 

In loving memory of / Capt Charles Colwyn 

Rolph / (2nd Leicestershire Regiment) / Killed in 

action at Givenchy, France / 15th October 1915 

- aged 27 

Also of / Sidney Howard / their son / Killed in 

action / Sep 25 1916 / Aged 20 years 

In loving memory / of / Florence Nichols / who 

died 1st Nov 1929 / aged 63 years / Walter 

Evans Clark Nichols / husband of the above / 

who died 4th Feb 1953 / aged 80 years / also 

Evelyn Beatrice Nichols/ beloved second wife of 

WEC Nichols / born Tralee 4th Aug 1894 / died 

Wigston Magna 20th Oct 1973 / A life devoted to 

her family / also Pte IW Nichols / killed 19th July 

1917 buried Ramscappelle 

… / In proud and loving memory of / Francis 

Nathaniel Tarr / only son of the above / 1st/4th 

Battalion Leicestershire Regiment / Killed in 

action Ypres July 18th 1915 aged 27 years 

In loving memory of / John Popple / who passed 

peacefully away March 21st 1901 / aged 49 

years / also of/ Caroline / the beloved wife of the 

above / who passed peacefully away April 5th 

1900 / aged 43 years / Also of / Samuel Bishop / 

fourth son of the above / who departed this life 

December 6th 1910 / aged 23 years / Also of / 

Pte Alfred Joseph Healy / third son of the above 

who was killed in action / July 14th 1916 aged 

35 years / interred in France / … 

… / Also Pte Shirley Bray son of the above killed 

in action Sept 25th 1915 / aged 22 years 

Claude FW Herington / 2/1 Leicestershire 

Yeomanry / Born March 26th 1894 / died August 

25th 1915 / Loved dearly loved 

To the honour and memory / of the Leicester 

members of the / international brigades / who 

died fighting fascism in Spain / 1936-1939 / 

[names] / "No pasaram" 

British Nuclear Tests / Veterans Association / 

dedicated to the memory of / test veterans who 

have died since / the British tests at / Monte 

Bello, Emufield, Maralinga / Malden island, 

Christmas island / "all we seek is justice" / 27th 

November 1993 

Harry Hughes (Royal Engineers) 

Pte George Samuel Hubbard / 1st Leic Regt 

Capt Charles Colwyn Rolph / (2nd Leicestershire Regiment) 

Sidney Howard 

Pte IW Nichols 

Francis Nathaniel Tarr 

Pte Alfred Joseph Healy 

Pte Shirley Bray 

Claude FW Herington / 2/1 Leicestershire Yeomanry 

37682 WW1 Addition to family gravestone 

Sgt Fred G Tunnicliffe Killed in action 23rd April Sgt Fred G Tunnicliffe 

(inscription on kerb stone). 

1917 

37684 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. Cpl George Herbert Thacker / 1/4th 

Leicestershire Regt / who died November 7th 

1918 / aged 22 years 

Cpl George Herbert Thacker / 1/4th Leicestershire Regt 

37680 Non-Specific Various regimental flags - associated Unknown Unknown 

Regimental with 122? 

37679 Non-Specific Memorial chapel with dedication on The Regimental Chapel / The Royal 

None 

Regimental paper within frame. Contains 123? Leicestershire Regiment / In 1897, officers of the 

Leicestershire Regiment asked the reverend 

canon / SIW Sanders LLD, Vicar of St Martins 

Church, now the cathedral for "a / regimental 

corner". He readily agreed and gave the 

None 

None 



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Cemetery 

132 New Walk 

Museum 


? 


Grave ref. UN 2375. 


Grave ref. CB 0033. 

Regiment / the Chapel dedicated to St George, 

the warrior patron saint of England / In this 

chapel are collected not only many of its 

memorials but also, / hanging round the walls, 

many of the colours carried by the Regiment 

over / the centuries / The regiment traces its 

origin back to 1688 when it was raised. It 

became / the 17th Foot in 1713 and the 

Leicestershire Regiment in 1782 / In recognition 

of distinguished service in every major theatre in 

World War II / His Majesty King George VI in 

1946 approved that the Regiment should / 

become "the Royal Leicestershire Regiment" / 

On 23rd June 1975, the last colours of the 1st 

Battalion of the Royal / Leicestershire Regiment 

were laid up and can now be seen hanging over 

the / altar of the chapel 

... / Also to the memory of / Flt Lieut John 

Outram Davies RAF / Gt-grandson of the above 

/ who gave his life in action over / Karlsbruke, 

Germany on the night of / February 2nd 1945 / 

aged 24 years 

... / Also of / Captain / GCG Taylor MC / The 

Leicestershire Regiment / Only son of / Colonel 

and Mrs HW Taylor / who was killed in action in 

Crete / on 1st June 1941/ "Oh Graham, my son 

my son" 

37720 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Also Lieut WM Vaughan Sculthorpe / Killed 

in action in Flanders June 7th 1917 / aged 26 


granite. 

Grave ref. UT 2102. 

37700 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in pink 

marble. 




granite. 


37698 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in black 

marble. 


(SA) 

Shield with cinque foil surmounted by 

medieval style helmet surmounted by 

a wyvern. Acanthus on each side. 

years / At rest 

Dennis H / Folwell RAF VR / lost his life 3rd April 

1945 / aged 19 years 

… / In proud and loving memory of / Alfred 

George younger son of the above / 3rd Brigade 

Canadian field artillery / Killed in action near 

Ypres October 18th 1917 aged 27 / one of the 

bravest and the best / "With Christ which is far 

better" 

… / Cpl Andrew Frank (Addison) / 5th son aged 

26 / Killed in action 27th January 1917 / interred 

(---) Cemetery, France 

… / John Underwood 2nd Leicestershire Regt / 

Eldest son of the above / died of wounds 

received in action / April 16th 1917 aged 24 

years buried Etaples Military Cemetery / called 

to higher service 

In loving memory of / Olivia, widow of John 

Henry Hulme / died Feb 8th 1940, aged 79 / 

Olivia, daughter / died March 20th 1933, aged 

47 / John, son / killed in France March 21st 

1918, aged 26 / Mary Elizabeth Morley, sister / 

died May 23rd 1919, aged 60 

In memory of / William Winterton / Elder son of 

Frank and Mary Gertrude Winterton / 2nd Lieut 

Royal Scots killed in / action in the Battle of Loos 

/ Sept 25th 1915 aged 19 years 

This tablet was erected / by the past and present 

boys of the / Desford Industrial School in / 

memory of their comrades who / fought and died 

for their country / in the South African War 1899- 

1902 

Flt Lieut John Outram Davies RAF 

Captain / GCG Taylor MC / The Leicestershire Regiment 

Lieut WM Vaughan Sculthorpe 

Dennis H / Folwell RAF VR 

Alfred George 

Cpl Andrew Frank (Addison) 

John Underwood 2nd Leicestershire Regt 

Hulme / John 

William Winterton 

Boer 2 (SA) 5 

133 Welford Road 37671 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in ... / Also of Clifford George RAF VR / son of the Clifford George RAF VR 



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Cemetery granite. 

above / gave his life on operations in N Africa / 

Grave in section FS. 

May 14th 1943 / aged 33 years 

134 Welford Road 37703 WW Addition to family gravestone. 

In ever loving remembrance / of / John 

Corporal EC Matthews MM / 2nd Life Guards 

Cemetery 

Grave ref. UN CONS D 203. 

Matthews / Born 19th February 1839 / died 8th 

September 1899 / "In the lord's hands / the lord 

doeth all things well" / Also of / Annie, dearly 

beloved / wife of the above / born 12th January 

1839 / died 20 November 1900 / ... / Also of 

Corporal EC Matthews MM / 2nd Life Guards 

youngest son / of John Matthews killed in action 

/ in France 1918 aged 38 years 

135 Welford Road 37704 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. ... / Also Wilfred Walter (Walker) / 2nd 

Also Wilfred Walter (Walker) / 2nd Leicestershire Regt 

Cemetery 

Leicestershire Regt / who gave his life in France 

/ Oct 31st 1914, aged 28 years / Interred in la 

Touret cemetery / … 

136 Welford Road 37709 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. 

… / Also WH Wagstaff AB RND / (son in law) / WH Wagstaff AB RND 

Cemetery 

Grave ref. D 0480 

killed in action near Baupaume / Dec 30 1917 

aged 38 years / Content to live but not afraid to 

die, death is the crown of life 

137 Welford Road 37710 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. Affectionate memory of / Lieut / Noel Rowe / Lieut / Noel Rowe 

Cemetery 

Killed in action / 25th April 1945 / interred / 

Nijmegen Holland / aged 28 years 

138 Welford Road 37708 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / William Sykes / died April Pte GA Sykes / (1/3 Leicsters) 

Cemetery 

30th 1911, / aged 57 years / "Nearer my God to 

thee" / Also / Mary Ann / beloved wife of the 

above / died May 9th 1939 / aged 84 years / "At 

rest" / Also / Pte GA Sykes / (1/3 Leicsters) / 

Dearly beloved son of the above / Killed in 

France August 15th 1917 / aged 31 years 

139 Welford Road 37707 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / Arthur William/ Lewitt, / Lewitt / Leonard Arthur 

Cemetery 

who passed away May 9th 1928 / aged 53 years 

/ Also / Ellen Maud, / beloved wife of the above / 

died Dec 14th 1937, / aged 63 years / Reunited / 

Also / Millie Smith / their daughter / died Dec 

12th 1985 / aged 62 years / Also / Leonard 

Arthur, only beloved son of the above / who fell 

in action in France / June 28th 1918, aged 20 

years / Interred in Tannay British cemetery / 

"Heavenly father in thy care / we leave our loved 

ones sleeping" 

140 Welford Road 37705 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in grey … / Also of Sergt Pilot William John Timms RAF Sergt Pilot William John Timms RAF VR 

Cemetery 

marble. 

VR / Killed in action Luga, Malta Jan 11th 1941 / 

Grave ref. UC 135 

aged 24 years 

141 Welford Road 37706 WW1 Addition to family gravestone in black In loving memory of / George / the beloved Lieut George Harry / Gristwood / 1st Leicester Regt 

Cemetery 

marble. 

husband of / Eliza Gristwood / who passed away 

April 16th 1926 / aged 75 years / At rest / Also of 

/ Eliza Gristwood / who passed away Feb 27th 

1930 / aged 67 years / Also in memory of / Lieut 

George Harry / Gristwood / 1st Leicester Regt / 

son of the above / who died of wounds received 

in action / September 16th 1916, / aged 24 

years / Interred Grove Town Cemetery France 

142 Welford Road 37724 WW2 Addition to family gravestone. In proud memory of / Sergeant Stewart Sandom Sergeant Stewart Sandom / RAFVR / Bomber Command 

Cemetery 

/ RAFVR / Bomber Command / killed in action / 

April 14th 1941 / aged 21 years 


Cathedral 


Cemetery 


Deaths 


(SA) 

Within 122. 

Unknown type of memorial. 

In memory of / Colonel John Cridlan Barrett VC 

TD DL FRCS / 5th Bn the Royal Leicestershire 

Regiment / 1916-1939 / honorary Colonel 5th Bn 

1953-58 / died May 1977 / aged 79 

Addition to family gravestone. … / Also of Thomas William Sweet / the beloved 

son of the above / who died at Middlesburg April 

6th 1901 / in the South African War / aged 30 

years 

Colonel John Cridlan Barrett VC TD DL FRCS / 5th Bn the 

Royal Leicestershire Regiment 

Thomas William Sweet 



reference 

145 Westcotes 

Drive Church 


? 

37734 WW2 Five light window with figures of a 

scout, sea scout, brownie and guide in 

four outer windows and a cross at the 

top with scout and guide badge below 

in central light. 

To the Glory of God / and in honour of / the 

scouts and guides / of this church / who served 

in / the Second World War 

146 37735 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory / of / Emily / beloved wife of / 

Albert Pawley, / who died May 9 1917 / aged 60 

years / Also L Cpl John / 3rd/4th Leicester Regt / 

Beloved son of the above / died of wounds 

received / in action Octr 3 1917, / aged 22 years 

/ Interred British cemetery / Mendinghem / "At 

rest"/ Also dad / died April 1st 1943, aged 84 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

153 St Michael’s 

Church 

154 Ingle Street 

Junior School 

155 St Stephens 

Church 


Church 

years / "Re-united" 

37732 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Our dear boy / Pte TG Evans, / 11th Batt 

Durham Light Infantry / who died from wounds / 

March 30th 1918, / aged 49 years / [names] 

37731 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In loving memory of / William James Shaw / 

Died 4th Decr 1931 aged 67 years / Also of 

Annie, wife of the above / Died 27th Jany 1939 

aged 74 years / Also Eustace William Leslie, / 

son of the above (1st/1st Leic Yeomanry) / 

Missing at Ypres 13th May 1915, / aged 23 


marble. 



marble. 

37739 WW1 Rough hewn granite cross 

surmounting plinth. Inscription on 

plinth and slate tablet placed below. 

37740 WW1 CWGC cross and large white stone 

wall with inscription carved onto side. 

Names in columns. 

37754 WW1 Nowy-headed stone tablet with shields 

in upper corners and regimental badge 

of the Leicestershire Regiment in the 

top centre, mounted within ornate 

marble frame. 

50609 WW1 Rectangular brass memorial plaque on 

wooden backboard. 

50614 WW1 Wooden framed plaque with 

crenellation at top with six small 

circular motifs. 

37753 WW1; WW2 Two large rectangular WW1 panels in 

stone with two smaller trapezium 

shaped WW2 panels underneath 

years 

… / And of / 2nd Lieut / Samuel Collis Harding 

MM / Tank Corps / Eldest son of the above / 

Born 18th Sept 1893 / Killed in action at 

Langemarck / near Passchendaele / on 22nd 

Augt 1917 / … 

In / loving memory of / Annie Herbert / died 28 

May 1937 / aged 61 / Also William, / husband of 

the above / died 14 December 1943, / aged 67 / 

Also Roy / son of the above / Killed in Italy 7 

October 1944 / aged 27 

In / remembrance / of the heroic / Belgian 

soldiers / [names] and the Belgian refugees who 

/ passed away in the town and county / during 

the Great European War / RIP 

Unknown 

L Cpl John / 3rd/4th Leicester Regt 

Pte TG Evans, / 11th Batt Durham Light Infantry 

Eustace William Leslie 

2nd Lieut / Samuel Collis Harding MM / Tank Corps 

Herbert / Roy 


WW1 7 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your 

-councilservices/ep/planning/conservation/historic-parks-and- 

gardens/welford-road-cemetery/ 

Their name liveth for evermore / [Names] WW1 152 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your 

-councilservices/ep/planning/conservation/historic-parks-and- 

To the Glory of God / and in loving memory of / 

Thomas Whittingham eldest son of / Alter 

Godfrey & Edith Mary Gordon / Whittingham, of 

Knighton Vicarage / Lieutenant 1st 4th 

Leicestershire Regiment / a sidesman & church 

worker at this church / born 12th June 1893 

killed in action in France at the Hohenzollern 

redoubt 13th Oct 1915 / he bravely and willingly 

gave a loving / loyal, cheerful life for duty for his 

country / and for his master Jesus Christ / "So 

doth the greater glory dim the less" 

Ingle street old boys / who made the supreme 

sacrifice / in the Great War 1914-19 / [names] 

The Great War 1914 1918 / [names] / Jesus 

mercy help RIP 

Thomas Whittingham 

WW1 43 

WW1 203 

1914 - 1918 / [names] / 1939-1945 / [names] WW1: 

Arthur Allen 

Laurence Allen 

Edmund R Armstrong 

Edward W Austin 

gardens/welford-road-cemetery/


reference 

157 St Philips 

Church 


? 

37751 WW2 Processional cross with dedicatory 

plaque 

The processional cross / was presented to the 

church / in memory of the men and / women of 

this church and / parish who gave their lives / in 

the World War 1939 - 1945 

Clarence G Bostock 

Victor P Bosworth 

Ernest Braddock 

Arthur E Bree 

Harold Bree 

Oliver Bree 

Harold A Broughton 

Thomas Burden 

Howcutt Burdett 

George W Cave 

James Cave 

Cecil RS Cook 

Levett GE Cooper 

Edwin RC Cooper 

W Herbert Capewell 

Leslie Covill 

Frank Day 

Horace Eaton 

Fred Frearson 

F Robert Frost 

Arthur G Gibson 

Arthur P Goddard 

Walter Goodson 

Sidney N Holmes 

Charles S Hubbard 

Bertie Kettle 

Albert Lawrence 

Thomas Lawrence 

W Ernest Lee 

Fred Lester 

James Mason 

I William Mason 

Oliver R Mason 

Ernest Mosley 

George Munday 

William Munday 

William TR Munton 

Gerald Overton 

John T Philips 

Harry Sharpe 

Edward Smith 

Edgar Tomlin 

Enoch Tunnicliffe 

John W Valentine 

Harry Vickers 

Ernest Wells 

Bertram Weston 

Thomas Whittingham 

Henry Wales 

Bert Facer 

WW2: 

Eric Ballard 

Peter Brotherton 

Hilary Clarke 

Stanley Clarke 

Arthur Gilbert 

Frank Ogden 

John W Preston 

John Swingler 

Kenneth Wilcox 

None 



reference 

158 St Philips 

Church 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

161 St Barnabas 

Church 

162 Seventh Day 

Adventists 

Church, 

University 

Road 

163 Seventh Day 

Adventists 

Church, 

University 

Road 


Church 


? 

37750 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque mounted 

onto stone slab backboard. Inscription 

in relief. 


To the Glory of God and in memory of the men / 

of this parish who fell in The Great War 1914 – 

1918 / [names] 

… / Also James Percy Hodkins / son of James H 

and Sarah / Killed in action Sept 26th 1917 / 

aged 25 years 

37727 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. … / Also / John Curtis youngest son / 2nd Lieut 

34th Leicesters / killed in action in France / 22nd 

37767 WW2 Wooden plaque with decorative head 

bearing coat of arms and colourful 

inscription in centre in green and gold 

with red background 

37782 WW1 Clipsham stone monument with head 

symbolising four apostles on shaft 

surmounting octagonal plinth, on 

circular base. 

March 1918 / aged 21 years 

1939 – 1945 / A tribute of love and 

remembrance / [names] / Greater love hath no 

man than this 

In grateful memory of our men who died in the 

Great War, 1914 – 19 / their names are 

recorded within the church. "Who shall separate 

us from the love of Christ?" 

WW1 70 

James Percy Hodkins 

John Curtis 

37783 WW1 Stained glass window. Unknown Unknown 

37766 WW1 Wooden reredos above the altar with 

long panel with inscription over six 

panels bearing names in black. 

Central raised cross detail. 

To the Glory of God / and in memory of the men 

of this parish and congregation / whose lives 

were sacrificed in the Great War 1914-1918 / 

The reredos above the altar was set up by 

relatives and friends / [Names] 

Roy Addison 

Alan Brown 

Norman Ballard 

Roy Gowing 

Stan Goode 

Maurice Hutchinson 

James Hardy 

Harry Murby 

Harold Sharp 

William Stevens 

Edgar Ward 

None 

Abell CA 

Attenborough H 

Atkins WT 

Bailey AW 

Ballard J 

Ballard JE 

Banks G 

Banks H 

Barker WA 

Barrowdaile E 

Bell J 

Bassett WH 

Beal JW 

Bilson JE 

Blower G 

Blower W 

Bolton P 

Bond J 

Bosworth W 

Bramley W 

Brown F 

Brown J 

Butcher AG 

Carpenter A 

Cave CO 

Clayton WA 

Cox E 

Cox F 

Cox W 

Crofts H 

Cramp T 

Deacon GE 

Dickenson TW 

Dixon S 

D 

Kenyon 

D 

Kenyon 



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Elton A 

Farmer AH 

Fray E 

Frith DB 

Gannon JT 

Garrett JA 

Gee T 

Gilbert TH 

Glover G 

Goddard T 

Goddard GH 

Golding H 

Goom RH 

Grigg R 

Gristwood GH 

Grundy W 

Guess G 

Halford A 

Hall B 

Halls EE 

Hand R 

Henry C 

Henson HJ 

Hewitt A 

Hill C 

Hill S 

Hill AW 

Hill JW 

Hickman A 

Hoult W 

Hubbard AC 

Hurst D 

Inglesant JH 

Inglesant TG 

Ingram J 

Joyce JE 

Keates G 

Keene F 

King S 

Lowe W 

Large WH 

Martin AJ 

Martin A 

Matthews T 

Matthews W 

Moore JT 

Moore TJ 

Moulden H 

Maltby H 

Nash H 

North H 

Orme J 

Orme E 

Ormiston A 

Orson JT 

Osborne A 

Pallett F 

Park CH 

Parsons P 

Pearson H 

Pegg BA 

Perkins A 

Perkins F 

Prior FW 

Rainbow P 



reference 

165 St Peter’s 

Church 


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37764 WW1 Metal panelling with names in columns 

and inscription in relief 

They whom these / panels commemorate / were 

numbered / among those who / at the call of / 

king and country, / left all that was dear to them, 

/ endured hardness, / faced danger and / finally 

passed out / of the sight of men / by the path of 

duty / and self-sacrifice, / giving up their own / 

lives that others / might live in / freedom / Let 

those who come / after see to it that / their 

names be not / forgotten / 1914 / 1918 / [names] 

/ Tyro-victor / The Great War / 1914 – 1918 / 

"More than / conquerors" 

Rainbow W 

Rawlings W 

Reeve WJ 

Reeve JW 

Reeves A 

Reeves AW 

Rose E 

Robinson W 

Rudkin B 

Rudkin W 

Russell WA 

Scholes W 

Scott EH 

Scott T 

Scott TF 

Sharp E 

Sharp BN 

Shaw FW 

Sleet A 

Smith EJH 

Smith GH 

Soames AE 

Spriggs C 

Stevenson J 

Stevenson HAE 

Tamms F 

Tamms J 

Thompson JW 

Thorp JH 

Thorpe JE 

Topham H 

Towl JW 

Tutty FS 

Vann Rev BW BA / VC DSO MC / Croix De Guerre 

Vernon W 

Walter EG 

Ward E 

Watson WE 

Watson JJ 

Waudby W 

Webb EJ 

Webster EW 

Weller E 

Wesley G 

West AH 

White L 

Withers F 

Wormleigh- / ton W 

Wilson AA 

Worley W 

York JC 

Hewitt G 

Hewitt HB 

Underwood / AR DCM 

WW1 197 



reference 

166 St Augustine’s 

Church 

167 St Andrew’s 

Church 

168 Arch of 

Remembrance, 

Victoria Park 


(SA) 


? 

Plain rectangular brass plaque with 

incised inscription mounted onto 


37763 WW1; WW2 Ornate wooden board with carved 

inscription and Christ on the cross in 

centre. Greek cross carved in each 

37788 Non-Specific 

Regimental 

corner of the board. 

Regimental crest and scroll placed on 

east gate of Arch of Remembrance 

enclosure, with associated plaque on 

gate pier. 

Listed Building (II*) - 9/345 (Gates & 

Gatepiers); Registered Park or Garden 

(II). 

169 Victoria Park 37789 WW2 Metal plaque attached to granite 

boulder 

170 Memorial Park 37757 WW1 Concrete base surmounted by stone 

step, plinth and cenotaph. Inscription 

carved at top of cenotaph below metal 

relief, and with names on two metal 

plaques below inscription. Relief of 

nude dead figure on ground with two 

boys kneeling beside him, one holding 

a wreath over him. 


Church 


Cemetery 

37755 WW1 Rectangular metal plaque with incised 

inscription. 

In memory of / No 4846 Pte Howard / 1st King's 

Dragoon Guards / died in South Africa / 26th 

May, 1901 / Erected by / his officers and 

comrades 

To the Glory of God and in memory of the / men 

of this parish who died in the war 1914 - 19 / 

[Names] 

Gate: Hindoostan / Royal Leicestershire / In 

grateful memory of / the service and sacrifice of 

all ranks / the Royal Leicestershire Regiment 

(17th foot) / 1688 - 1964 

left hand pier: The memorial to the Royal 

Leicestershire Regiment / was dedicated by the 

very reverend John C Hughes MA / Provost of 

Leicester, on 21st June 1975 at the time of / the 

laying up of the colours of the 1st Battalion in / 

Leicester Cathedral and those of the 2nd 

Battalion / in the Regimental Museum 

In tribute and memory of those men of the 

United States (all American) 82nd airborne 

division who served in Leicester and county prior 

to the 'D' Day invasion of Europe. They came in 

freedom. They fought with gallantry. Many never 

to return to their homeland. 

914 1919 / In glorious memory / of old boys of / 

Bridge Road School / who died in the / Great 

War / [names] / “At the going down of the Sun 

and in the morning / we will remember them” 

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of / 

Victor P Bosworth / 12th Batt KRRC / Eldest son 

of Edwin & Florence Emily Bosworth / (a worthy 

and distinguished chorister of this church) / who 

fell in action at Langemarck, / Augt 16th 1917 

Aged 19 years / "Blessed are the dead who died 

in the Lord" 

37726 WW1 Addition to family gravestone. In / loving memory of / Thomas Brewin Turner / 

March 24th 1859 - July 15th 1927 / Mary 

No 4846 Pte Howard / 1st King's Dragoon Guards 

WW1 104 

None 

None 

SB Adcock / A Adams / HB Allen / GW Banks / WG Barsby / 

W Barton / AE Billington / P Bolton / W Bray / W Broad / B 

Broughton / R Brown / JC Burton / A Callaghan / A 

Capenhurst / T Carr / G Carpendale / W Cheney / S 

Chennery / WH Clarke / PO Clarke / WA Clayton / A Cooley 

/ H Copas / WI Cooper / F Congreve / E Cox / W Cox / AE 

Craig / J Crick / S Bland / J Rowe / TP Wickstead / -- Dilkes 

/ A Dawdrey / TW Dickinson / H Dobney / F Eaton / E 

Edwards / O Essex / EV Evans / O Evans / AH Farmer / E 

Frake / AE Francks / A French / HH Flint / JT Gannon / A 

Gibbons / J Gibbons / GH Gillett / HH Goode / W 

Greenwood / GH Gristwood / WH Herring / AW Hill / C Hill / 

JW Hill / S Hill / WC Hill / A Houghton / W Houghton / W 

Hughes / DA Humberstone / A Hutchinson / V Mason / RS 

Spriggs / DC Jackson / TM Johnstone / TA Jones / A 

Kennewell / FH Kettle / J Kirby / GH Kirby / E Knight / RL 

Knight / F Knight / F Lawrence / H Lenton / FT Leader / H 

Maltby / J Manton / FA March / W Myring / C Naylor / IT 

Orson / A Osborne / G Overton / AS Palmer / T Parker / NB 

Parsons / W Payne / H Pearson / (AC) Pell / A Perkins / F 

Perkins / T (Pliemmer) / A Porter / B Pratt / H Pratt / AD 

Preston / W Pridmore / A Ratcliffe / WJ Rawlings / W 

Reeves / E Rockley / I Rouse / W Savage / F Shaw / C 

Simpkin / F Smith / A Snow / T Spick / FW Stafford / A 

Storer / P Storer / R Southam / E Taylor / RE Taylor / B 

Thrall / A Tilley / H Walker / IR Ward / EW Webster / F Wells 

/ C Whitaker / HC Whitmore / IR Wiggington / H Williamson / 

W Wormleighton / -- Phillips / GO Rainer 

Victor P Bosworth / 12th Batt KRRC 

Harold Bemrose Turner 

A 

Finney 



reference 

173 St Saviour’s 

Church 

174 St Peter’s 

Church 

175 St George the 

Martyr’s RC 

Church 

176 St George the 

Martyr’s RC 

Church 

177 Wyggeston and 

Queen 

Elizabeth 

College 

178 City of 


Transport 

Offices 


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50608 WW1 Memorial window designed by Harrods 

depicting figure holding shepherd’s 

crook with dedication at base. Window 


(SA) 

subject to recent vandalism. 

Rectangular metal plaque with laurel 

draped along top and female figure to 

left holding palm front and circular 

laurel wreath over inscription. 

50605 WW1 Metal plaque with elaborate border 

and heavily carved wooden frame with 

rounded top. Main plaque has sailor 

and soldier with weapons pointing 

downwards, and an angel holding a 

circular laurel wreath in each hand. 

Cross carved above inscription and 

crossed flags beneath, with shield in 

centre. Further metal plaque beneath 

bearing details of unveiling. 

50606 WW1 Wooden cross bearing Christ, on 

stone plinth surmounting five steps. 

Built and dedicated 1921, cost £490, 

W Thrall and Son stonemasons, WD 

Caroe Architect 

50797; 

50798 

WW1; WW2; 

20 th Century 

Conflicts 

Central plinth bearing plaques with 

WW1 names on two tiered base, in 

hedged enclosure entered via wrought 

iron gate. Panel with inscription bears 

crest carved in stone. Gate posts bear 

WW2 metal plaques with further 

names. Unveiled 10 th July 1922 by 

Major General HL Crocker; dedicated 

by Bishop of Peterborough. 

R Birch has provided paper archive. 

50799 WW1 Modelled and cast bronze memorial 

with “semper eadem” written beneath 

enamelled shield at top. Laurel wreath 

border. Unveiled 20 April 1922. 

Possibly to be moved to Abbey 

Elizabeth Turner / Sept 24th 1868 - Sept 2nd 

1904 / Harold Bemrose Turner / died of wounds 

received in action in France / interred in St 

Cever Cemetery Rouen / Jan 23rd 1892 - Sept 

5th 1918 / Elizabeth Helene Bessie Turner / Dec 

19th 1893 - Nov 10th 1935 / Percival Henry 

Turner / January 20th 1901 - November 29th 

1942 / Gladys Vera Knight / July 4th 1895 - 

August 5th 1979 / beloved wife of Frank Knight 

and / daughter of Thomas Brewin Turner / 

Reunited 

I come to thee in the / name of the Lord of Hosts 

/ to the Glory of God and in / loving memory of 

Harvey Priestman / Flint MC 2nd Lt who fell / in 

action in France May 27th 1918 

To the memory of / William Henry Whitehead / 

who died a soldiers death / for his country in 

South / Africa January 4th 1902 / This tablet is 

erected by / his comrades 

In memory / of / Leonard Cornelius / HMS 

"Defense" / Altar server in this church / and all 

other / our gallant sailors, officers & men / who 

lost their lives in the / Battle of Jutland / on the 

eve of the feast of ascension / 1916 / This tablet 

was placed / and a sum of £2000 / set aside for 

naval scholarships / in connection with this 

church / the path of duty / was the way to Glory / 

Jesu / mercy! / This memorial tablet was 

unveiled by Lady Beatty / on behalf of / Admiral 

Sir David Beatty, KCYO Commander in Chief of 

the Grand Fleet / the eve of the ascension / 

1917 

Dedicated / by the Rv Noel Mellish VC MC / with 

prayer and thanks- / giving for those who / from 

this church and par- / ish of S George the 

Soldier / Martyr laid down their / lives in the 

Great War: 1914 1918 / Lord all pitying Jesu 

blest / grant them thine eternal rest / [names] 

In memoriam / Aeternam Huius Scholae / 

Alumnorum qui in summon / patriae discrimine 

vitam / libenter devoventes / sibi honorem 

scholae / gloriam patriae salutem / pepererunt / 

MCMXIV – MCMXVIII / et / MCMXXXIX - 

MCMXLY 

other column: Masters / [names] / Old boys / 

[names] 

In memory of / the men of the city / of Leicester 

Tramways / and Electricity Dept / who gave their 

lives / in the Great War 1914-1918 / [Names] / 

"Lest we forget" 

Harvey Priestman / Flint MC 2nd Lt Yes, 

includin 

g of 

soldier 

William Henry Whitehead 

Leonard Cornelius / HMS "Defense" 

HMS Defence / L Cornelius AB / RND / GH Merrin AB / Leic 

Yeo / Tr GH Conquest / RHA / Gnr F Hillyer / RHA / Drvr EA 

Kenney / RGA / Gnr GTHB Arnett / JA Hames / RE / Spr AT 

Chafer / Spr AH Revitt / R Scots / - W Owen / -B Kent R / 

Cpl H Crook / - W York R / Pte H Finlow / York R / Pte JD 

Ryall / Ches R / Pte JA Bruce / Worc R / Pte WE Warner / -- 

- Hig-- R / - / - W Anderson / RH Brig / Rfn A Phipps / MG 

Corps / Pte E Clarke / CFA / RO WW Perry / Can Scot / Pte 

HW Allen / Pte - Finch / Aus Artill / Sig GH Dilkes / - Fus / Lt 

AE Chambers / Linc R / Sgt G Burrowes / W York R / L Cpl 

B Thrall / Pte - Briggs / E York R / L Cpl LT Bird / - / - / 2 nd - 

Wells / - Riddington / - / L Cpl FR Spencer / Pte EW Adcock 

/ Sig HJ Brombley / Pte GS Button / Pte A Cartwright / Pte 

WT Jones / Pte TE - / Pte E - / Pte AC Smith / - / Pte - 

Calvert 

WW1 191 

1951 Millington FB 

1953 Bones KB 

1955 Bates AM 

WW1 70 

Yes, 

but 

unclear 



reference 

179 All Saints 

Church 


? 

50620 WW1 

Pumping Station? Also see 202. 

Rectangular slate plaque with thin line 

border and two small circular carvings 

top left and right. Sited below stained 

glass window of three lights, which has 

three figures in central light and 

emblems of St Peter and St Michael in 

left and right lights. 

Plaque: In memoriam / Old scholars and 

parishioners / who fell in the Great War 1914 – 

1918 / [names] / In glorious hope 

Window: To the Glory of God and in 

commemoration of the centenary of All Saints / 

School and in memory of the former scholars 

who fell in the War 1914 - 1918 

Angrave A 

Bailey T 

Bailey W 

Bemrose GE 

Bernard S 

Bilson E 

Bird F 

Bird J 

Birtley H 

Bosworth T 

Brombley T 

Burton T 

Buswell A 

Buzzard D 

Cave A 

Calcutt J 

Chambers G 

Croxall AW 

Dalby A 

Dean G 

Dicks S 

Disney A 

Disney J 

Dunmore C 

Elkington JT 

Farnsworth H 

Felgate H 

Fisher F 

Freeman B 

Goodacre CH 

Goodwin D 

Glover E 

Greasley S 

Green C 

Green H 

Griswell E 

Hawkesworth W 

Heighton C 

Hinks AE 

Humber CF 

Hunter H 

Hutchinson T 

Illston J 

Jacques J 

Jermyn S 

Large H 

Loftus W 

Lokes A 

Long WH 

Mansfield H 

March H 

Marsden A 

Marsh H 

Mason T 

Mitchell L 

Mutlow H 

Neal W 

Overton EW 

Payne JH 

Pearson A 

Pratts TG 

Popple W 

Preston AF 

Rawson A 

Yes 



reference 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

182 Church of 

Christ, 

Evington Road 

183 St James the 

Greater Church 

184 Evangelical 

Free Church 


Free Church 


Cemetery 


? 

50785 WW1 Addition to black family gravestone, 

with triangular head, columns at each 

side and black words on white 

background 

50786 WW2 Addition to family gravestone in form 

of black marble cross on three tiered 

base. 


50619 WW2 Nowy headed wooden board on 

chains, with metal plaque attached 

showing names below circular laurel 

wreath at top centre. 

50618 WW1; WW2 Bronze rectangular plaque with 

circular motif between WW1 dates and 

gold ribbon decorations on carved 

border 

50616 WW1 Bronze plaque with raised edge 

border. 

50617 WW2 Rectangular bronze plaque with oak 

leaf border and crossed sprigs of 

laurel between dedication and names. 

50787 WW1 Addition to grey marble family 

gravestone 

In / loving memory / of / William Noble / Killed in 

action 19th April 1918 / Aged 33 years / Duty 

nobly done / Also Mary beloved mother of the 

above / Died 2nd Jan 1945 / Aged 81 years / 

Also / Bessie Mullins / Died 31st Jan 1936 / 

Aged 79 years / Loving memories 

... Grand-daughter of / Henry and Fanny Jane 

Watters / Died February 11th 1943, / Aged 32 

years / Joseph Henry Collymore Hunter / Died 

on active service in India, March 4th 1944 / aged 

30 years (Buried at Bangalore) / … 

1939 1945 / In grateful memory of / [names] / 

who gave their lives / in the 2nd World War / We 

will remember them 

Our glorious dead / for God King & Country / 

1914 1919 / [names] / 1939 1945 / [names] 

To the Glory of God / and in affectionate and 

grateful memory / of forty-three sons of this 

church and / its institutions who fell in the Great 

War / August 1914 - November 1918 / [Names] / 

"They counted not their lives dear unto 

themselves so / that they might finish their 

course with joy" 

To the Glory of God / and in proud and / 

honoured memory of / the men of this church / 

who gave their lives in / the World War 1939- 

1945 / [names] / and in gratitude to all who 

served 

... Also / of her dear little sister / Annie Louise / 

died March 4th 1909 / aged 4 months / Also of / 

Sergeant Robert Edward Hyslop / of Brome 

Suffolk Regiment / Beloved eldest son of the 

above / Died in France in the service / of his 

country / Nov 21st 1916 / aged 27 years / They 

shall not grow old as we / that are left grow old. 

Rawson F 

Roberts JW 

Roberts T 

Ross J 

Scott A 

Sharp SA 

Skelson A 

Smart G 

Smart T 

Smart GE 

Spicer H 

Springthorpe A 

Stephenson H 

Stevenson C 

Stokes H 

Stroud A 

Tebbutt JHG 

Thorpe J 

Vann. J 

Warner WG 

Watts JT 

Wells A 

Willars C 

Wilmott A 

Wright F 

Wright J 

Wright P 

William Noble 

Joseph Henry Collymore Hunter 

WW2 2 

WW1 20; WW2 3 

WW1 43 

WW2 13 

Sergeant Robert Edward Hyslop / of Brome Suffolk 

Regiment 



reference 


Cemetery 


Church 


? 



50793 WW1 Nowy headed black metal plaque with 

raised gold lettering and border in 

relief. Gold cross in head of plaque. 

Age shall / not weary them at the going down / 

of the sun and in the morning / we will remember 

them 

... Frederick Ernest Papprill Capt 4th East Lancs 

killed in action June 3rd 1917 Havrincourt wood 

France aged 25 

To the Glory of God / and in remembrance of / Lt 

Col the Rev Bernard W Vann / BA VC MC & 

Croix de Guerre / One time assistant curate / of 

this parish. A true / Christian a fearless man / a 

fine soldier beloved by / officers and men. He fell 

/ at Ramicourt Oct 3 rd 1918 / leading his men / 

RIP 

Frederick Ernest Papprill Capt 4th East Lancs 

Lt Col the Rev Bernard W Vann / BA VC MC & Croix de 

Guerre 

189 St Paul’s 

Church 

50794 WW1 Stained glass window. George Quartermain died 1918 George Quartermain 


50795 WW1 Brass plaque Major Henry Hetherington Emerson killed in Major Henry Hetherington Emerson 

Church 

action in France Sept 26 1916 

191 Welford Road 50792 WW1 Brown marble close on three tiered In / loving memory / of / Joseph BF Clow / who Joseph Frank Booth / Sergeant 2nd/7th Sherwood Foresters 

Cemetery 

steps with HIS in circular setting in died October 1st 1919 / aged -- years / Also 

centre of cross. Dedication has raised Emma Clow / beloved wife of the above / died 

lettering. 

November 7th 1928 / aged 76 years / Also 

Joseph Frank Booth / Sergeant 2nd/7th 

Sherwood Foresters / killed in action east of 

Ypres September 16th 1917 / aged 18 1/2 years 

/ Because I live so shall ye live also 

192 Welford Road 50791 WW1 Addition to grey stone family 

… Also Private Henry Juba RAMC / youngest Private Henry Juba RAMC 

Cemetery 

gravestone in shield shape. 

son of the above/ killed in action at Ypres 


September 25th 1917 / Aged 34 years / At rest 

193 Welford Road 50790 WW1 Addition to grey marble family 

… Entered into rest Jan 6th 1938 aged 88 years Cox / Albert 

Cemetery 

gravestone. 

/ We thank God for every remembrance of them 

Grave ref. UC 0051. 

/ Also their dearly loved daughters Nellie … / 

who died Feb 13th 1954 aged 62 years / 

Florence Cox / who died Jan 20th 1963 aged 91 

years / Also Lily Cox / who died Oct 21st 1975 

aged 81 years / Also Albert son of the above / 

killed in action March 22nd 1918 aged 21 years 

194 Welford Road 50789 WW1 Addition to black marble family … Also Pte A Bindley 5th Leicesters / Son of the Pte A Bindley 5th Leicesters 

Cemetery 

gravestone. 

above / killed in action / Sept 24th 1918 / aged 

24 years … 


Free Church 

50615 WW1 Bronze plaque with carved edge 

raised border. Unveiled 3 rd July 1921. 

To the Glory of God / and in high and grateful 

appreciation of the struggles / and sacrifices of 

four hundred / sons of this church and its / 

Missions Sunday schools and / institutions who 

served in the / Great War / August 1914 - 

November 1918 

None 


50796 Boer 2 (SA) Brass plaque Pte Howard killed in action in South Africa 26 Pte Howard 

Church 

May 1901 

197 St Margaret’s 50804 WW1 Book of remembrance in wooden case Case: 1914 Remember 1918 

WW1 202 

Church 

with inscription in gold 

Book: Name Regiment where given / [Names] / 

Friends of the dead, in fragrant memory keep / 

their names, the harvest of whose death you 

reap; / for only with a world more worthy made / 

by us shall their great sacrifice be paid 

198 Leicester 50805 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in south 59th (North Midland) Division (TF) / To the Glory None 

Cathedral 

aisle. 

of God / In memory of the dead / and to record 

the service / of the division in The / Great War 

1914-18 / Ypres 1917 - Menin Road - Polygon 

Wood / Cambrai 1917 - St Quentin - First Battle / 

of Bapaume 1918 - Bailleur First / Battle of 

Nemmel - Albert 1918 / Royal Artiller / 295 (2/1 n 

mid) BDE (Lincoln) / 296 (2/2 N mid) BDE 

(Staffs) / 297 (2/3 NI Mid) BDE (Derby) / 298 

(2/4 N Mid) BDE (Derby) / V Heavy Trench 

Mortar Bat / Div Am Col (Staffs and Derby) / 

Royal Engineers / 467 Field Coy (Staffs) / 469 

Yes but 

need 

close 

up 


http://www.cwgc.org/search/cas 

ualty_details.aspx?casualty=23 

8721


reference 


Cathedral 

200 St John the 


201 St John the 


202 City of 


Transport 

Offices 

203 Saffron Lane 

Working Men’s 

Club 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 

206 St George’s 

Chapel, 



? 

50806 Boer 2 (SA) Unknown type of memorial in inner 

south aisle. 

Field Coy (Staffs) / 470 Field Coy (Staffs) / 

Signal Coy (Staffs, Notts/Derby, Lincoln & 

Leicester) / 176th (Staffs Infantry BDE / 2/5 BNS 

Staffs Reg / 2/6 BNS Staffs Reg / 2/5 Bnn Staffs 

Reg / 2/6 Bnn Staffs Reg / 174 Machine Gun 

Coy / 176 Trench Mortar B 177th (Lincs & 

Leicester) Infantry Bde / 2/4 Bn Lincoln Reg / 2/5 

Lincoln Reg / 2/4 Bn Leicester Reg / 2/5 Bn 

Leicester Reg / 177 Machine Gun Coy / 177 

Trench Mortar B / 200 Machine Gun Company. 

178th (Notts & Derby) Infantry Bde / 2/5 Bn 

Notts & Derby Reg / 2/6bn Notts & Derby Reg / 

2/7 Bn Notts & Derby Reg / 2/8 Bn Notts & 

Derby Reg / 175 Machine Gun Coy / 178 Trench 

Mortar B. ASC / No 1 Coy (Staffs) / No 2 Coy 

(Lincoln and Leicester) / No 3 Coy (Staffs) / No 4 

Coy (Notts & Derby) RAMC / 2/1 N Mid Field 

Amb (Derby) / 2/2 N Mid Field Amb (Leics) / 2/3 

N Mid Field Am (Staffs / Sanitary Section / 

(Leicester) RAVC / N Mid Vet Sect / (Lincoln / 

250 Divl Employ) 

The Saint John Ambulance Brigade / To the 

Glory of God / and in memory of / Private 

Francis H Cooper / of the Wheatsheaf Division / 

Leicester Corps / who died of disease 

contracted / whilst engaged in attendance / on 

the sick and wounded during / the South African 

campaign / 1899 – 1902 / July 3rd 1900 aged 22 

years / Erected by the members of the / corps / 

Pro ultimate hominum 

50803 WW2 White plaque with black lettering. This tablet was placed here by the / 

congregation of this church to / commemorate 

with affection and / gratitude those of this parish 

who / gave their lives / in the War of 1939-1945 / 

50802 WW1 Large nowy headed slate plaque with 

large ?marble sculpted border, 

featuring figures holding swords on 

either side. 

50800 WW2 Plaque in addition to WW1 plaque 

178. Possibly to be moved to Abbey 

Pumping Station? 

50801 WW2 Arched stained glass window with tiger 

at the top (for Leicestershire 

Regiment), a thistle, daffodil, 

shamrock and red rose in central pane 

and eleven service badges 

interspersed with acorns around outer 

border. 

[names] 

To the / Glory of God / & in memory of the men / 

of this parish who gave their lives in the War 

1914-1918 / [names] 

Leicester City Transport / 1939 – 1945 / [names] 

1939 1945 / This window is dedicated in / 

remembrance of the men of this club / who gave 

their lives during the Second / World War, also a 

thankofering (sic) for the / victorious conclusion 

and safe return of / members from all branches 

of the services 

50807 WW1 Tablet This tablet is dedicated to the many / of the 

members of the Leicester Corps / St John 

Ambulance Brigade / who died in the Service of 

their country whilst / tending the sick and 

wounded in the / Great War 1914 - 1918 / 

[names] / Pro utilitate hominum 

50808 Colonial India Unknown type of memorial In loving memory of / George Henry eldest son 

of / WM Fredk and Elizth Quinn of this town / 

who serving with the 1st Northumberland Regt / 

lost his life endeavouring to save a comrade at / 

Saran Sar North West Frontier India / November 


Deaths 

9th 1897 aged 23 years 

Unknown type of memorial Sacred to the memory of / Major General / Sir 

Edward Mabbott Woodward / KCMC CB / born 

29 July 1861 - died 21 March 1943 / 27 years 

Private Francis H Cooper / of the Wheatsheaf Division / 

Leicester Corps 


WW2 14 http://yourhistories.wordpress.c 

om/2010/11/14/st-john-thebaptist-war-remembranceplaques/ 

WW1 58 

WW2 9 

http://yourhistories.wordpress.c 

om/2010/11/14/st-john-thebaptist-war-remembranceplaques/ 

None 

WW1 13 

George Henry / Quinn 

Major General / Sir Edward Mabbott Woodward / KCMC CB


reference 


? 

Cathedral Colonel of the Leicestershire / Regiment / 16 

January 1916 - 21 March 1943 

207 St George’s 50814 Non-Combat Unknown type of memorial To the memory of the undermentioned / officers NCD 34 

Chapel, 

Deaths 

and men 1st Battalion / The Leicestershire 


Regiment / who died in Bermuda and Halifax NS 

Cathedral 

/ of enteric fever and from other causes / during 

the period Sept 1 1888 - April 1891 / [names] 

208 St George’s 50812 Non-Combat Unknown type of memorial In loving memory of / Major General / Sir Henry Major General / Sir Henry Leycester Croker / KGB CMG 

Chapel, 

Deaths 

Leycester Croker / KGB CMG / Commanded 


2nd battalion of the / Leicestershire Regiment / 

Cathedral 

from 11 November 1910 to 18 March 1915 / 

Commanded 81st Inf BDE in France / from 21st 

March 1915 to 20th May 1916 / and the 28th 

division in Macedonia / from the 21st May 1916 

to 18 November 1920 / Died 20th August 1938 

209 Leicester 50811 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in inner In loving memory of / Alfred Ernest Chambers Alfred Ernest Chambers BA MC / Lieut 26th Battn Royal 

Cathedral 

south aisle. 

BA MC / Lieut 26th Battn Royal Fusiliers/ a 

server at this church intimate / friend of Frank 

Meredith Tompson / (commemorated 

hereunder) / who during / the advance on the 

Scheldt was / awarded the Military Cross for / 

'courage, fine leadership, and / contempt of 

danger' in which / volunteered deed of bravery 

he / gave up his young life / endeavour passing 

into the fuller / life of the unseen. Oct 29th 1918 / 

aged 22 years / to his dear soul - loving and 

beloved / may our lord Jesus grant eternal / light 

and joy and happiness / 'Those who love one 

another in / Jesus Christ never see each / other 

for the last time' / T Pratt & Sons London 

Fusiliers 

210 Leicester 50809 Korea Metal plaque with black lettering and The British Korean Veterans’ Association / The 

Cathedral 

small round blue badge at top centre. Leicestershire Branch / In remembrance of the 

In inner south aisle. 

Known County Fallen. In / 1950 Korea 1953 / 

[Names] / “Not one of them is forgotten before 

God” / Unveiled on 18 th Pte NA Birch 

Pte G Coley 

Pte RN Cridland 

Pte RJ Derry 

March 1990 by / General Cpl N Fenemer 

Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley GBE KCB DSO MC Sgt SM Cox 

Pte B Thompson 

Cpl K James 

Lcpl R Taylor 

211 Leicester 50810 WW1 Unknown type of memorial in inner In loving memory of / Frederick Meredith Frederick Meredith Tompson / 6th Battn Seaforth 

Cathedral 

south aisle. 

Tompson / 6th Battn Seaforth Highlanders / 

Student of Mirfield Theological / College, and 

altar server / at this church. He was killed / in 

action near Arras on / Easter Monday April 9th 

1917 / aged twenty years. RIP / 'Time passeth, 

the world changeth / death hideth but love 

abideth' / 'Lift up your hearts: / we lift them up 

unto the Lord' 

Highlanders 

212 St George’s 50815 Non-Combat Unknown type of Memorial To the / Glory of God / and in memory of / Major Major General / Archibald Hammond / Utterson CB 

Chapel, 

Deaths 

General / Archibald Hammond / Utterson CB / 


Born 10th March 1836 / died 28 July 1912 / 

Cathedral 

Colonel of the / Leicestershire Regiment / 1905- 

1912 

213 St Augustine’s 37760 WW1 Rectangular brass plaque bearing In sacred and loving memory of / Major Henry Major Henry Hetherington Emmerson 

Church 

incised inscription and mounted onto a Hetherington Emmerson / Killed in action / on 


the Somme (France) / September 26th 1916 / 

aged 35 years / RIP 

214 Chapel, Royce 50903 WW2 Bronze rectangular plaque with simple Members who fell in the World War / 1939 – WW2 2 

Institute 

line border, on wooden backboard. 1945 / [names] / They died that we might live 

215 Gent Limited 50904 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with gold Gent & Co Ltd / Roll of Honour / The fallen / WW1 12 (+ 90) 

lettering of dedication and names set 1914 1918 / [names] / for our safety / footprints 

in three columns (on stone?) 

on the sands of time 

216 Gent and Co 50905 Unknown Stone plaque on outside factory wall. 

No details held. 

Unknown. Unknown 

217 Chapel, Royce 50902 WW1 Bronze rectangular plaque bearing line In loving memory of the members of the / Royce WW1 12 

Yes 



reference 


? 

Institute border with English roses carved in 

each corner, on wooden backing. 

218 Newarke 

Houses 

Museum 


Church 

220 Newarke 

Houses 

Museum 

221 Gilroes 

Crematorium 

50900 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with painting 

above dedication and three columns of 

names. Painting depicts soldier and 

sailor in front of Union Flag looking out 

to sea. Names have red crosses to 

denote those who died and a white 

line for those wounded. 

50897 WW1 Single light stained glass window 

showing St George holding a sword 

and shield with dedicatory panel at his 

feet. 

50899 WW1 Paper roll of honour on hardwood 

backing. Names in black for served 

and red for fallen, displayed in 

columns with three panels above 

showing a union flag in a laurel 

wreath, a dead soldier lying at the feet 

of Christ on the cross and Leicester 

coat of arms (?) in laurel wreath on 

right. 

50908 WW2 Cross of sacrifice adjacent to raised 

curved wall with names of dead. 

Institute who gave their lives for / their country's 

cause in the Great War 1914-1919 / [names] / 

Our brothers in peace / "Greater love hath no 

man than this, / the sacrifice of one's self for the 

sake of others" / Until the day breaks and the / 

shadows flee away 

Roll of honour / Below are the honoured names 

of the members of / the staff of Messrs T 

Roberts & Sons / who took up arms in the great 

European war 1914 – 1919 / [names] 

Window: Quit you / like men be strong 

Dedicatory panel: To the Glory of God and in 

memory of / Bertrand Batton West a Corporal / 

16th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps / who fell 

in action at Poelcapelle Belgium / Sept 26th 

1917 during the Great European War 

Mantle Road Infants School / Roll of Honour / 

Old boys who gave their lives for us in / the 

Great War 1914-18 / [names] / those who 

served / [names] 

Cross base: This cross of sacrifice is one in 

design / and intention with those which have / 

been set up in France and Belgium and / other 

places throughout the world / where our dead of 

the / Great War are laid to rest / Their name 

liveth for evermore 

Wall: 1939 / [names] / These members of / Hs 

Majesty’s Forces / died in the service / of their 

Country / and were cremated / [names] / 1945 

WW1 11 (+ 115) 

Bertrand Batton West 

WW1 54 (+ 240) 

F/Lt (pilot) SH Bazley / Royal Air Force (AAF) 2.3.1941 

Lieutenant-Commander JM Beese / Royal Navy 11.1.1947 

Corporal (U/T Obs) CJ Bleackley / Royal Air Force 

28.9.1941 

Pilot Officer (Pilot) J Bramley / Royal Air Force 11.6.1942 

Captain M Brown / Royal Artillery 13.4.1942 / 1 

Second Lieutenant HH Driver / The Leicestershire Regiment 

29.9.1939 

Driver WH England / Royal Army Service Corps 6.1.1942 

LAC V Faulks / Royal Air Force 30.10.1947 

Lieutenant RW Garland / Royal Army Ordnance Corps 

18.9.1941 

Private PRH Green / The Northamptonshire Regiment 

26.10.1943 / 2 

Captain AD Heard / Royal Artillery 11.12.1944 

Warrant Offr 11 (BSM) AW Hackett / Royal Artillery 5.9.1944 

Sergeant JAW Hardyman / Royal Air Force 2.3.1946 

Subaltern Justina Harrowing / Auxiliary Territorial Service 

2.9.1944 

Driver GW Houston / Royal Engineers 4.6.1946 

Major AT Hulett / Royal Artillery 6.1.1947 / 3 

Private KK Jackson / Royal Army Pay Corps 27.12.1947 

Driver W Lawrence / Royal Army Service Corps 12.12.1944 

F/Lt (Navigator) N Lewis DEC & Bar / Royal Air Force 

5.5.1947 

Lieutenant GE Lockwood / Royal Army Pay Corps 

20.6.1940 

Sergeant (Navigator) JR Longstaff / Royal Air Force 

6.12.1942 / 4 

Lieutenant LH MacDonald / Royal Army Medical Corps 

4.11.1940 

Sergeant LCJ Marten / Royal Air Force 25.9.1941 

F/Lt RA Marks AFM / Royal Air Force 9.11.1945 

Corporal E Maxwell / Royal Air Force 9.11.1945 

Lieutenant J Moffat / 1 st Leicestershire Bn. Home Guard 

7.3.1943 / 5 

Gunner D Sarson / Royal Artillery 26.9.1946 


http://www.cwgc.org/search/ce 

metery_details.aspx?cemetery= 

2072859&mode=1


reference 

222 Natwest Bank, 

Granby Street 


Cemetery 

224 Belgrave 

Liberal Club 


? 

37613 WW1 Rectangular wooden board with plain 

raised border with photographs of 

soldiers inset into board. Tudor rose at 

each corner and laurel wreath and 

carved ribbon design at top. 

Moved from St Martins’ branch in 

1999. 

1914-1918 'Lest we forget' / [Names] / In 

memory / of our colleagues at the Leicester 

branch / of the Westminster Bank Limited / who 

sacrified their lives in the Great War 

55126 WW1 Addition to family gravestone Our dear son L/Cpl Ernest Arthur Williams / 

Tank Corp / Killed in France August 25th 1918 / 

55127 WW1; WW2 Wall mounted nowy headed brass 

plaque in wooden frame. Laurel 

wreath at head with crusader sword 

reaching from this to centre of plaque. 

Has lamps fixed to either side of 

plaque. 

225 Jungle Club 55128 WW1 Roll of Honour in wooden frame. 

Central column of fallen and those 

awarded decorations flanked by four 

columns of those who served. Head of 

the roll is decorated with shields. 

Formerly Belgrave Working Men’s 


Church 


Church 


Granby Street 


Granby Street 


Chapel, 


Cathedral 


Cathedral 


Synagogue 

233 Foresters 

Institute 

Club 

55100 WW1 Wooden reredos with single light 

stained glass window breaking up first 

line of the inscription. Associated 

brass plaque. 

55099 WW1 Single light stained glass window 

depicting crucifixion, with inscription at 

base in a scroll held by two angels. 



1999. 



1999. 

aged 25 years 

In commemoration of / the members of this club 

/ who gave their lives in the / Great War 1914- 

1918 / [Names] / World War 1939-1945 / 

[Names] / At the going down of the sun / and in 

the morning / we will remember them 

Belgrave Working Mens / Club and Institute / 

Roll of Honour / The Great War 1914-1918 / 

[Names] 

Reredos: Their name Liv-eth for evermore / Do 

this in remembrance of me 

Plaque: To the Glory of God / and in loving 

memory of / William Charles Goldby / 2nd 

Liutentant 18th Battn Kings Royal Rifles / who 

fell in action on August --- 1918 / This panelling 

was erected by his father / RIP 

To the Glory of God and / in loving memory of 

Frank / Percy Haines, Lieut 8th Leicesters / who 

fell in action at Fontaine les / Croisilles, France, 

June 16th 1917 

In memory of the following member of the staff 

of this branch who gave his life in the Second 

World War / [name] 

In memory of the following members of the staff 

of this branch who gave their lives in the Great 

War 1914-1918 [names] 

50821 WW1 Wooden prayer desk To the Glory of God and in memory of Lionel 

Pilkington Abbott / Lieutenant 7th Leicestershire 

Regiment / Killed in action June 14 1916 / Ex 

20820 Egypt and 

the Sudan 

(1882-1899) 

Dono KM Abbott 

Unknown type of memorial. To the Glory of God / in memory of / the 

undermentioned officers / non-commissioned 

officers and men / of the / 2nd battalion 

Leicestershire Regiment / who departed this life 

/ while serving in Egypt 1900-1902 / A cross 

marks the spot in the military / cemetery wherein 

most of their bodies / lie buried / [names] / 

Erected by the officers and non-commissioned 

55085 Holocaust Wall mounted stone tablet including 

gold Star of David embellished with 

golden ribbons and inscription in gold 

lettering. 

55087 WW1 Nowy headed wooden board with 

metal plaques bearing names of the 

fallen in gold lettering displayed in five 

columns. Head of plaque has a badge 

officers / and men of the 2nd Battalion 

Six million / Jewish martyrs / 1933-1945 

Ancient Order of Foresters Leicester District / In 

grateful memory of brethren of the / courts of 

this district who fell in / the Great War 1914- 

1919 / [names] / They died for humanity, / --- to 

LAC (U/T) Obs TD Siddons / Royal Air Force 24.11.1939 

F/Lt (Pilot) H Tricks DFM / Royal Air Force 14.1.1945 

Captain WS Yeates / 9 th Leicestershire Bn. Home Guard 

28.3.1943 / 6 

WW1 9 

L/Cpl Ernest Arthur Williams 

WW1 3; WW2 17 

WW1 39 (+ 354) 

William Charles Goldby / 2nd Liutentant 18th Battn Kings 

Royal Rifles 

Frank / Percy Haines, Lieut 8th Leicesters 

WW2 1 

WW1 7 

Lionel Pilkington Abbott / Lieutenant 7th Leicestershire 

Regiment 

Egypt and the Sudan 42 

WW1 ? 



reference 


Victoria Park 


Synagogue 


Synagogue 

237 St Luke’s 

Chapel, 

Leicester Royal 

Infirmary 

238 St Luke’s 

Chapel, 

Leicester Royal 

Infirmary 


Clarence 

House 


? 

framed by laurel wreaths. live for it 

55092 WW2 Small heart shaped stone with small 

plaque attached to front. 

In memory of women 1939 - 1945 / Tribute to 

the ladies who gave their / lives for the freedom 

of the British / Islands, and the men & women 

that / fought on the Home Front / We will 

remember them 

55084 WW2 White stone tablet with raised centre. Erected by the Leicester / Hebrew congregation 

/ in honoured remembrance of / [names] / who 

gave their lives in the fight for / justice and 

freedom / 1939-1945 / [Hebrew characters] / 

55083 WW1 Wooden board with stepped head 

featuring Star of David and including 

two columns of names on separate 

panels. Asterisks mark names of 

fallen. 

55081 WW1 Metal plaque on stone tablet. 

Roundels in corners of moulded 

border with decoration along upper 

edges and top sections of left and right 

hand sides. Raised lettering. 

55082 WW2 Metal plaque with incised lettering in 

frame. 

55093 WW1 Rectangular bronze plaque with badge 

of school at tablet head and raised 

lettering. 

Info provided by Brian Screaton 

December 2011 (Treasurer of 

Wyvernians): ‘Clarence House used to 

be the home of the City Boys’ School 

until it moved to new premises on 

Downing Drive in 1965. The memorial 

boards were moved from Clarence 

House to Downing Drive at that time, 

but eventually were taken down. They 

were found a few years ago in the 

boiler room in a very poor state, by a 

former pupil of the school. Through an 

appeal to the ‘Wyvernians’ 

organisation of former City Boys’ 

pupils funds were raised to repair and 

refurbish the boards, which had been 

vandalised. 

The Wyvernians have an annual 

reunion at Clarence House, now the 

home of Age Concern. We 

approached Age Concern with a view 

to re-erecting the boards in their 

original home in the Great Hall. We 

were delighted when they not only 

accepted, but provided the labour to 

re-fit them, free of charge. We had a 

service of re-dedication conducted by 

the Rev. Gerald Rimmington, himself a 

former City Boy, about three years 

ago. 

The WW1 board relates to the 

Newarke school, which was 

amalgamated with the City Boys 

Their memory will endure for ever 

Leicester / Hebrew congregation / Roll of 

Honour / Men who served in the Great War 

1914-1918 / [names] 

In memoriam / Members of the Leicester / Royal 

Infirmary nursing / staff who gave their / lives in 

the cause of honour / and freedom in the Great / 

European War 1914-1919 / [names] / Grant 

them O Lord eternal rest / and let light perpetual 

/ shine upon them 

In memory of / members of the Infirmary / 

clerical staff who died / on active service / in the 

Second World War / [Names] / 1939-1945 

To honour the memory of / the following boys of 

/ the Newarke School / who fell in the Great War 

/ 1914-1918 / [Names] / "Exegi monumentum 

aere perennius" 

WW2 3 

WW1 3 (+46) 

WW1 4 

WW2 6 

Victor Palmer Bosworth (1912-1914) 

Rifleman, The King’s Royal Rifles.1917 

Bertie Gilbert Boulter (1913-1915) 

Private, The West Yorkshire Regiment. 1918 

Alfred Ernest Chambers M.C. (1908-1912) 

Lieutenant, The Royal Fusiliers. 1918 

Arthur Harold Dunkley (1911-1913) 

Private, the Durham Light Infantry, 1918 

Arthur Hyslop Gascoigne (1912-1915) 

Private, The King’s Liverpool Regiment. 1918 

Walter Rudolph Howard (1910-1913) 

Trooper, The Leicestershire Yeomanry. 1916 

Carl Owen Jordan (1908-1912) 

Private, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1916 

Ronald Anderson Kerr (1911-1912) 

Private, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1917 

Sidney George Marston (1908-1914) 

Private, The London Scottish. 1916 

Lionel Nichols (1909-1913) 

Signaller, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1917 

William Duncan Squires (1909-1912) 

Corporal, R.F.A. 1916 

Eric Rowland Thomas (1909-1911) 

2nd Lieutenant, The Cheshire Regiment. 1917 

Frank Meredith Tompson (1908-1914) 

Private, The Seaforth Highlanders. 1917 



reference 


Clarence 

House 


? 

School in the 1920’s. There are 14 

names on the plaque – please see the 

list on our website which is 

http://www.wyvernians.org.uk - under 

‘Latest News’. 

The WW2 board is headed by the City 

Boys’ school badge – A Wyvern and 

the school motto – In conatu labor. 

Please see our “Wyvernians” website 

as above.’ Brian Screaton, Treasurer : 

Wyvernians. 

55094 WW2 Wooden board headed by badge 

depicting a Wyvern and the motto “In 

conatu labor”. Inscription painted in 

gold. 

Info provided by Brian Screaton 

December 2011 (Treasurer of 

Wyvernians): ‘Clarence House used to 

be the home of the City Boys’ School 

until it moved to new premises on 

Downing Drive in 1965. The memorial 

boards were moved from Clarence 

House to Downing Drive at that time, 

but eventually were taken down. They 

were found a few years ago in the 

boiler room in a very poor state, by a 

former pupil of the school. Through an 

appeal to the ‘Wyvernians’ 

organisation of former City Boys’ 

pupils funds were raised to repair and 

refurbish the boards, which had been 

vandalised. 

The Wyvernians have an annual 

reunion at Clarence House, now the 

home of Age Concern. We 

approached Age Concern with a view 

to re-erecting the boards in their 

original home in the Great Hall. We 

were delighted when they not only 

accepted, but provided the labour to 

re-fit them, free of charge. We had a 

service of re-dedication conducted by 

the Rev. Gerald Rimmington, himself a 

former City Boy, about three years 

ago. 

The WW1 board relates to the 

Newarke school, which was 

amalgamated with the City Boys 

School in the 1920’s. There are 14 

names on the plaque – please see the 

list on our website which is 

http://www.wyvernians.org.uk - under 

‘Latest News’. 

The WW2 board is headed by the City 

Boys’ school badge – A Wyvern and 

the school motto – In conatu labor. 

Please see our “Wyvernians” website 

as above.’ Brian Screaton, Treasurer : 

Wyvernians. 

“In conatu labor” / In memory of the old boys of / 

the City Boys' School / who died in the War / 

1939-1945 / [Names] 

Herbert John Toon (1908-1911) 

Lance-Corporal, The Leicestershire Regiment. 1915 

Roy Addison 

Thomas Merrill Adlard 

Gordon Derrick Barnes 

Bertie Arthur Beeby 

Roland Horace Bellamy 

Ben Bingley 

Clifford Willson Brant 

Frank Thomas Bown 

Roy Callis 

Ronald Victor Collington 

Leonard Court 

Benjamin Cox 

Harold Day 

Alan Dockerty 

Leonard Norman Drake 

Charles Frederick Ellis 

John Elton 

Henry Flavill 

John Horace Fletcher 

Kenneth Gamble 

John James Garner 

William Henry Glover 

Thomas Francis Michael Gowan 

Thomas Henry Grain 

Edward Francis Gregory 

Donald Leigh Griffiths 

Reginald Gordon Ashton Hand 

Philip Arthur Healy 

Edwin Henry Herbert 

Claude Lionel Geoffrey Hood 

Ronald Arthur Horton 

Kenneth William Hughes 

Alec John Jackson 

Cecil Tom Keates 

Tom William Kempin 

Maurice Henry Knowles 

Frederick Arthur Lancaster 

Leslie Thomas Lewin 

Douglas Charles Lord 

Cyril Walter Lovell 

Frederick Arthur Ernest Marshall 

Eric Anthony Martin 

Thomas William Mayes 

Angus John McDonnell 

John Edward Moss 

Philip Henry Moulton 

Harry Kenneth Mundin 

Harry Stockton Murby 

David Robert Neal 

Ernest Roy Neal 

Thomas Norman 

Vincent Edward Norman 



reference 


Chapel, 


Cathedral 


Chapel, 


Cathedral 


Chapel, 


Cathedral 


Church 

245 Holy Trinity 

Church 

246 Leicester Royal 

Infirmary 

247 Holy Trinity 

Church 

248 St Augustine’s 

Church 


Deaths 


Deaths 




? 

Unknown type of memorial Deo Gloria / in loving memory of / Frederick 

Fenton Parkinson / Lt Colonel Army Pay Dept / 

Formerly Captain / 2nd Battalion Leicestershire 

Regiment / Son of / Major General / Charles 

Frederick Parkinson / Captain 87th & 73rd 

Regiments / born 13th January 1844 / died while 

stationed at Singapore / 30th May 1902 / 

Erected by his widow and son 

Unknown type of memorial In memory of / Major General / John Michael 

Kane Spurling CB CBE DSO / the Royal 

Leicestershire Regiment / 1927-1958 / Deputy 

Colonel the Royal Anglian Regiment / 1965- 

1976 / Died 23rd January 1980 - age 73 

Unknown type of memorial In memory / Lieutenant Arthur Leghorn 

Thomson / The Leicestershire Regiment / killed 

in action at Breda / West Africa on the 26th 

January 1897 / this monument erected by his 

brother / officers who unit (sic) in lamenting the 

lost (sic) of / a gallent (sic) officer and valued 

friend 

55098 WW1 South chapel with wooden panelling. Unknown None 

55097 WW2 Stone tablet set in white and brown 

veined marble surround, with black 

lettering and names in single column. 

In honoured memory of those who gave / their 

lives in the World War 1939-1945 / [names] / "I 

have fought a good fight." / 2 Tim IV 7 

Brian Preston 

Frank Leslie Reynolds 

Ronald James Reynolds 

Sydney Riddington 

Edward Bonsor Riley 

Herbert Arthur Roberts 

Ronald Albert Rudkin 

Samuel Ivan Rudkin 

Thomas Herbert Saunders 

Denis William Sharpe 

Graham Frederick Simpkin 

Leo Lawrence Simpson 

Douglas Frank Smart 

Horace James Worthing Smith 

John Bryan Smith 

Philip Standley Smith 

Roland Tom Smith 

Wilfred Henry Speke 

Donald Edward Staniforth 

Leonard George Stone 

John Derrick Thompson 

Raymond Frere Waterman 

Vincent Owen Weston 

John Harold Wilson 

Norman Yates 

Frederick Fenton Parkinson / Lt Colonel Army Pay Dept 

Major General / John Michael Kane Spurling CB CBE DSO / 

the Royal Leicestershire Regiment 

Lieutenant Arthur Leghorn Thomson / The Leicestershire 

Regiment 

WW2 4 

55095 WW1 Endowed hospital bed Unknown Unknown 

55096 WW1 Stone tablet set in white and brown 

veined marble surround, with black 

lettering and names in two columns. 

37759 WW1 Two framed and glazed handwritten 

rolls of honour with one holding 

dedicatory inscription at top. In closed 

church. 

249 Jungle Club 55129 WW2 Roll of honour in wooden frame, with 

names of fallen inscribed in open book 

enclosed by laurel wreath, flanked by 

silhouettes of two soldiers. Names of 

In honoured memory of those who heroically 

faced / and endured death in the Great War 

1914-1918 / [names] / "More than conquerors 

through him that loved us" / Romans VIII 37 

To the Glory of God and in honour / of the men 

who served in the War 1914 – 18 / The Roll of 

Honour of St Augustine's Church, Leicester / 

[names] 

Roll of Honour / Belgrave / and District / Working 

Mens Club and Institute / who served in HM 

Forces during the Second World War 1939-45. / 

[Names] / and herein is / recorded the / names 

WW1 24 

WW1 352 

WW2 18 (+ 490) 



reference 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

255 The Chapel, 

Saffron Hill 

Cemetery 


Church 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

260 St Mark’s 

Church 


Cemetery 


? 

those who served in two scrolls 

flanking book, each in four columns. 

Decorative border of leaf and flower 

design and centre has battle scene 

with soldier, sailor and airman and 

planes, ships and artillery. 

Formerly Belgrave Working Men’s 

Club 

of our / members who / did not return / They 

paid the / supreme sacrifice / It was their / 

greatest hour and / they died that we / shall live. 

We will / remember / [Names] / "There is a 

corner of a foreign field that is forever England” 

55115 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / Also Private Sydney Amatt RAMC / Son of 

the above / killed in action Dec 1st 1917 / aged 

23 years / Interred in St Jean Ypres 

55116 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / Joseph C Calvert, / who 

died Jany 24th 1898 / aged 58 years / --- 

memory of the just is blessed / Also of Maria / 

beloved wife of the above / who died Jany 31st 

1914 / aged 72 years / Also Elizabeth Calvert / 

who died Decr 6th 1947 / aged 73 years / wife of 

Russell Calvert / who died May 28th 1954 / aged 

83 years / In loving memory of / Pte Cecil 

Calvert KLR / grandson of the above / killed in 

action in France June 11th 1918 / aged 19 years 

/ Loved by all who knew him 

55117 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In / loving memory of / Captain Arthur Charles 

Cooper / 4th Leicestershire Regiment / Third son 

of E Franklin Cooper / Born 29th Novr 1875: / 

killed in action on service with / The British 

expeditionary force / May 16th 1915: / Interred in 

the Soldier's Cemetery Lindenhoek, Belgium. 

55106 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / Also Pte GHC Almey / Connaught Rangers / 

died of wounds and heat stroke / July 25th 1917 

aged 32 years / Buried at Dialah, Mesopotamia / 



50898 WW1 Wooden roll of honour with three 

panels bearing dedication in gold 

lettering above and below name 

panels, and wooden columns on plinth 

to either side. 

Previously at St Saviour’s Church 

19210 WW1 Brass plaque with vine border and 

engraved black lettering on marble 

backboard. 

... 

In memory of / Flight Lieutenant Charles 

Mackenzie Lester / killed May 9th 1940 

In honour of Christ crucified, and in thankful 

remembrance of the / men of this congregation 

and parish who fell in the Great War / This 

chapel is dedicated by the worshippers in the 

church / Greater love hath no man than this that 

a man lay down his life for his friends / [Names] / 

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord / let light 

perpetual shine upon them 

In loving memory of / Private Edward Walker 

55th MGC / born Aug 25 1891 Fell in action in 

France Aug 10 1917 / aged 26 years / Also 

Corpl William Harry Walker 2nd West Yorkshire 

Regt / Born Jan 31 1894 fell in action in France 

Aug 17 1918 / aged 24 years / "Their duty nobly 

done" 

55118 WW1 Addition to family gravestone Pte David Watson Daisley / killed in action in 

France / April 24th 1916 / aged 33 years 

55119 WW1 Addition to family gravestone … / also Frederick Bernard beloved son died of 

wounds in France 18th Nov 1917 aged 19 years 

37725 WW1 Addition to black marble family ... / Cpl George Herbert Thacker / (1st/4th 

gravestone 

Leicestershire Regt) / who died November 7th 

1918 / aged 22 years / ... 

37758 WW1 Wooden board with carved border and 

painted inscription. 

Church closed. 

RIP / To the Glory of God / 1914 and 1918 / in 

grateful memory of the men who fell / in the 

Great War / [names] / Jesu mercy 

55123 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / John Henry Potter / died 

Sep 26th 1948 aged 88 years / Also Sarah Jane 

Private Sydney Amatt RAMC 

Pte Cecil Calvert KLR 

Captain Arthur Charles Cooper / 4th Leicestershire 

Regiment 

Pte GHC Almey / Connaught Rangers 

Flight Lieutenant Charles Mackenzie Lester 

WW1 216 

Private Edward Walker 55th MGC 

Corpl William Harry Walker 2nd West Yorkshire Regt 

Pte David Watson Daisley 

Frederick Bernard 

Cpl George Herbert Thacker / (1st/4th Leicestershire Regt) 

WW1 280 

John Thomas Potter 



reference 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 


Cemetery 

265 Great Meeting 

House 


Church 

267 Robert Hall 

Memorial 

Church 

268 Robert Hall 

Memorial 

Church 

269 Freemason’s 

Hall 

270 Great Meeting 

House 

271 Freemason’s 

Hall 


Church 


? 

55122 WW2 Addition to family gravestone 

/ his beloved wife / died March 25th 1946 aged 

81 years / also John Thomas Potter their son / 

fell in action in France / Oct 2nd 1918 aged 19 

years / also Susan Wesson / died Jan 24th 1947 

aged 88 years 

Sydney Howard Hichens / 1906-1944 / Killed in 

action on service on Belgium 

55120 WW2 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / Flight Sgt Pilot / Trevor 

Gordon Franklin / Killed over Germany May 21st 

/ May 22nd 1944 aged 24 years 

55121 WW1 Addition to family gravestone In loving memory of / William Gimson / born May 

20th 1845 / Died May 26th 1930 / Also / Martha 

Gimson / Born December 2nd 1853 / died 

November --- 1923 / Also / Capt Walter Stanley 

Gimson MC / son of the above / born March 3rd 

1885 killed in action Aug 18th 1917 / buried at 

55371 WW1 Bronze wall plaque with slim 

decorative frieze around all edges and 

raised lettering in centre. Dedication at 

top with three sections for separate 

family members. Embossed wreath at 

bottom centre. 

55104 WW2 Pair of matching wooden candlesticks 

with painted red, green, blue, yellow 

and gold decorations and inscription in 

gold lettering at base. Features initials 

CD (Civil Defence) with crown above. 

57975 WW2 Bronze plaque with cross oak leaves 

between inscription and names, with 

decorative raised edging. 

Boesinghe / … 

In loving remembrance of / three devoted 

members of the great meeting / Edgar Franklin / 

Cooper / born 24th September 1833 / Died 25th 

February 1916 / Lifelong worshipper / Sometime 

treasurer / and chairman / of this congregation / 

Mary Jane / Cooper / his wife / born 27th 

December 1836 / died 7th September 1911 / 

Arthur Charles / Cooper / their third son / born 

29th November 1875 / Killed in Belgium 16th 

May / 1915 / Captain 4th Battalion / 

Leicestershire Regiment / An earnest worker in 

the / school and mission. 

To the / Glory of God / & in memory / of Warden 

/ W Pratt / & members / of this / parish who / lost 

their / lives thro' / enemy / action on / 19 Nov 

1940 

Honoured memory of / the men of this Church / 

who gave their lives in / the World War 1939- 

1945 / [names] / … 

57978 WW1 Bronze plaque with decorative edging. To the Glory of God / and in affectionate and 

grateful memory / of forty-three sons of this 

church and / its institutions who fell in the Great 

War / August 1914 - November 1918 / [names] / 

They counted not their lives dear unto 

themselves so / that they might finish their 

55379 WW2 Bronze tablet with slightly raised 

edges and embossed lettering. 

Dedication to top, decoration to each 

side of date figures. 

55373 WW1 Horizontal nowy headed sandstone 

tablet with laurel wreath at head. 

Centre has slate plaque with white 

lettering and names in three columns, 

standing on small decorative shelf of 

light coloured stone. 

55377 WW1 Elaborate rectangular wood and metal 

memorial featuring Freemason 

Heraldic Crest, two niches containing 

metal allegorical figures and sword 

device in centre pointing downwards. 

Dedication and casualty names above 

sword, names of those who served in 

four columns arranged to either side of 

sword. 

55103 WW2 Unbound book of remembrance with 

front page showing an image of a 

course with joy 

In memory of five brethren / who fell in the War / 

1939 – 1946 / [names] 

To commemorate / the service of members and 

sons and daughters of / members of the chapel, 

Sunday schools and mission in / the War Of 

1914 – 1919 / The following met death whilst 

serving in the forces / [Names] / In loving and 

thankful memory / They were a wall of defence 

To The / Glory of God / and in memory of the 

seven Brethren / who fell in the Great War / 

1914 – 1918 / [Names] / The following brethren 

served / [Names] 

The / Church / of The / Holy Saviour / World War 

II / Our fallen / So they passed over and all the / 

Sydney Howard Hichens 

Flight Sgt Pilot / Trevor Gordon Franklin 

Capt Walter Stanley Gimson MC 

Arthur Charles / Cooper 

WW2 13 

WW1 43 

WW2 5 

WW1 20 

WW1 7 (+ 158) 

WW2 36 



reference 

273 Christ Church 

United Reform 

Church 


Church 

57981 Non-Specific 

Conflict 


? 

knight with a sword and emblem of 

City of Leicester at bottom of page. 

Handwritten lettering with some 

illumination. Names are listed overleaf, 

with at least six added in afterwards. 

May have suffered from damp at some 

stage. 

trumpets sounded for them / on the other side / 

[Names] 

Roll of Honour Unknown NSC 11 

55101 WW2 Wooden memorial screen marking 

entrance to memorial chapel with gold 

lettering and associated metal plaque 

on left hand side. 

Screen: Memorial Chapel 

This screen and panelling was the gift of / 

William Simpson Leake / to the Glory of God 

and in memory of / his wife Ada and his son 

James William / April 21st 1963 

275 St Saviour’s 55102 WW1 Ornate brass crucifix with inscription In memoriam William C Goldby Killed in action William C Goldby 

Church 

around base. 

Aug 22nd 1918 

276 Welford Road 55124 WW1 Addition to gravestone In loving memory of / William Stevenson / died Harold AE Stevenson 

Cemetery 

Jan 4th 1930 / aged 71 years / Also Harold AE 

Stevenson / son of the above / killed in action at 

Ypres Sep 28th 1918 / ... 

277 Welford Road 55125 WW1 Addition to gravestone In loving memory / William H Throsby / 

William H Throsby / Bombardier Signaller Leicestershire 

Cemetery 

Bombardier Signaller Leicestershire RHA / who 

died of gas shell wounds / at 46 casualty 

clearing station Belgium / November 19th 1917 

age 25 / interred in Provenne Military Cemetery / 

He was never found wanting / Also of William 

Throsby / --- / Winifred Throsby / --- 

RHA 

278 St Mark’s 57986 Non Specific Peace Memorial Window. In the Unknown 

Church 

Conflict middle light, Christ in His crown of 

thorns is with a soldier in the Somme 

Valley; the rest of the glass symbolises 

the righteous hopes of man and his 

struggle to be free. A Kaffir, a priest, a 

Free Church minister, a girl with arms 

full of flowers, and a statesman 

holding the Covenant of the League 

(of Nations) are grouped on one side; 

on the other is a boy and girl 

symbolising higher education for the 

poor and a woman with her arms free 

from chains. 

279 St Nicholas 

Church 

57988 WW1 Flanders Battlefield Cross Unknown WW1 1 

280 St John the 57985 WW1 Wooden altar reredos which has a To the Glory of God and in memory of Guy Guy Edward Frank Russell 


carved inscription in gold at the base Edward Frank Russell who fell in action in 

and is ornately carved and painted. France October 13th 1915 


50796 Boer 2 (SA) Brass plaque Pte Howard Killed in action in South Africa 26 Pte Howard 

Church 

May 1901 

282 Zion Chapel - WW1 Black stone exterior plaque with In loving memory of / the young men of Zion G Percy Adams 

Yes 

segmented pediment. 

Chapel / and Sunday School / who lost their John T Langton 

lives in the / Great War 1914-1818 / [names] / Fred Munnings 

“The Lord gave / and the Lord hath taken away / Alfred Ofield 

Blessed be the name of the Lord” 

Thomas Parker 

Ernest Pitts 

283 Seventh Day - WW1 Tall stone octagonal column on In grateful memory / of the men who died / Great 

Yes 

Adventist 

octagonal plinth with lantern at head. War 1914-19 / Their names / are recorded 

Church 

Whole on large octagonal base. 

Inscription around plinth. 

within / the church 

284 Town Hall 

- WW1 Temporary memorial since replaced Unknown WW1 ? Yes - 

Square 

by Lutyens memorial in Victoria Park 

need 

in 1925. Unveiled 28/6/1917 by Duke 

clearer 

of Rutland, demolished April 1954. 

image 

WW2 1 


http://leicester.contentdm.oclc.o 

rg/u?/p15407coll2,23


reference 

285 Castle Gardens - Wars of the 

Roses 

286 Grey Friars - Wars of the 

Roses 

287 Richard III 

Road 

288 Newarke 

Houses 

Museum 

289 Newarke 

Houses 

Museum 


URC 


URC 


URC 

293 Mayflower 

Methodist 

Church 

294 Chapel of St 

Anne, St 

Mary’s 

295 Working Men’s 

Club, 

Newfoundpool 

296 Wesley Hall 

Methodist 

Church 

- Wars of the 

Roses 


? 

Postcard held; footage in webpage link 

shows image of memorial at c. 8.50 

mins 

Metal statue of Richard III by James 

Walter Butler RA from 1980s. Richard 

stands in dramatic pose holding crown 

and sword atop a rough piece of 

granite, on a square pediment bearing 

metal plaques. 

Square metal / slate plaque with image 

of burial on left and inscription in white 

on right. Richard’s insignia is towards 

the bottom of the inscription. 

Metal plaque renewed 2005. 

Inscription in white; Richard III’s white 

boar at head. 

- WW1 Battlefield cross with metal strips for 

inscription. 

- WW1 Unusual carved battlefield cross with 

round plaque on front 

- WW1; WW2 Bronze plaque commemorating men of 

the Seaforth Highlanders from 

Leicestershire. 

- WW1 Roll of Honour commemorating men of 


Leicestershire killed in action, listing 

names and service numbers. 

- WW2 Roll of Honour commemorating men of 


Leicestershire killed in action, listing 

names and service numbers. 

- WW2 Portable reading desk. Moved in 1958 

when original church bombed and new 

rebuilt. Paid for by his parents. Good 

condition. 

Data from E Orbell. 

- WW1 Chapel of Remembrance? From 

Kelly’s Directory. 

- Unknown Memorial plaque - details unknown 

Details from JT Aspland. 

Richard III / King of England / 1483 1485 / Killed 

Bosworth / 22 August 1485 / Piteously slain 

fighting manfully / in the thickest press of his 

enemies / Buried in Leicester 

Near this site stood the / Church of the 

Greyfriars / where the body of Richard III / the 

last Plantagenet King of England / was interred 

after his death, aged 32, / at the Battle of 

Bosworth Field / 22 August 1485 / Requiescat in 

pace / This memorial was erected by the 

Richard III Society 1990 

This plaque, originally erected by Mr B 

Broadbent in 1856 / on the nearby site of the 

Austin Friars, / records the 17 th century tradition, 

now generally / discredited, that at the 

dissolution of the monasteries / the body of King 

Richard III / was disinterred from his tomb at the 

Greyfriars in Leicester / and thrown into the 

River Soar / Richard III Society 2005 

IW-- / 1 - 19 / Capt G (Rolph) / -/- Leicesters / --- 

-- 

Lieut ACNML De Lisle / ---- JAD RFC / 20.11.17 

/ RIP 

Unknown Unknown 

Unknown WW1 ? 

Unknown WW2 ? 

In loving memory of Thomas Herbert Saunders 

23-3-1920 – 29-10-1940 of SAXE and RAF 



- WW1 Memorial plaque. In grateful remembrance of our glorious dead JF Asbury 

E Asbury 

T Bembridge 

F Callis 

E Calvert 

WH Clarke 

T Cramp 

JW Green 

H Henson 

F Hobell 

R Howard 

A Hutchinson 

FW Leeson 


Richard III / King of England / 1483 1485 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your 

-council-services/lc/growth-andhistory/statuesandsculpture/kin 

grichardthird/ 

http://www.richardiii.net/ 

Richard III / the last Plantagenet King of England http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your 

-council-services/lc/growth-andhistory/blueplaques/blueplaque 

speople/richardiii/ 

King Richard III http://www.richardiii.net/cc%202 

1st.htm 

Capt G (Rolph) Yes - 

unclear 

Lieut ACNML De Lisle Yes - 

unclear 

Thomas Herbert Saunders Yes


reference 

297 Towers 

Hospital 


Church 


Church 

300 Quorn Grange 

Centre 


Victoria Park 


? 

Nowy headed bronze wall plaque with 

city crest in head, within main 

reception area. Previously taken down 

when area decorated but reinstated 

after complaint made. Trust due to 

dispose of buildings. 

- WW2 Paper Roll of Service with decorative 

border bearing coat of arms. May be 

suffering from damp. 

- WW1 Recast at John Taylor’s Loughborough 

Bell Foundry 

- Spanish Civil 

War (1936- 

1939) 

Statue and memorial terrace garden 

dedicated by GPMU print union on 5 

November 2002 to four printworkers. 

- WW1; WW2 Squared Stone of Remembrance of 

white granite. 

Leicester City Mental Hospital / In memory of the 

members of the staff of this / hospital who fell in 

the Great War 1914 – 1918 / [names] / The 

following also served / [names] / “The men were 

very good unto us and we were not hurt. They 

were a wall unto us both by day and night” 

S Barnabas’ Church / [---] / Roll of Service / of 

men and women serving in HM Forces / 1939 – 

1945 / [Latin phrase?] / [names] 

Recast in 1921 in memory of W Quinton Lander, 

Cpl, 4th Leicesters, who fell at the Hohenzollern 

Redoubt, October 13, 1915 

IN MEMORY OF ALL THE PEOPLE / FROM 

THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT / AFRICA AND 

THE CARRIBEAN / WHO DIED IN BOTH 

F Preston 

C Smart 

J Start 

BR Thornton 

F Warren 

WA West 

E Wood 

FW Willoughby 

WV Wickens 

Fell: 

Male Nurse GJ Bradley at Neuve Chapelle 10 Mar 1915 

Male Nurse A Burrows at Guedycourt 25 Sept 1916 

Male Nurse SJ Ingram near Rheims 27 May 1918 

Served: 

Dr J Francis Dixon Medical Superintendent 

Dr CH Gibson Lyall Senior Asst Medical Officer 

Dr E Coomber Hobbs 2 nd Asst Medical Officer 

Mr WJ Barre Asst Clerk and Steward 

Mr Wilfred Grundy Storekeeper 

Miss E Brodie Matron 

Male Nurse GH Topham 

Male Nurse JR Atkins 

Male Nurse AC Chapman 

Male Nurse AM Pratten 

Male Nurse GS Smith 

Male Nurse JT Salisbury 

Male Nurse WC Jones 

Male Nurse P Moore 

Male Nurse EH Hyde 

Male Nurse A Atkinson 

Male Nurse WH Goddard 

Male Nurse H Smith 

Male Nurse RW Seaton 

Male Nurse H Martin 

Male Nurse W Russell 

Male Nurse G Hill 

Male Nurse T Borton 

Male Nurse SH Matthews 

Male Nurse GG Goodman 

Male Nurse B Cropley 

Male Nurse HE Lea 

Male Nurse WO Hernon 

Carter F Kenney 

Garden Labour HT Knowles 

Stoker CJ Colver 

Stores Porter F Bird 

Tailor G Faker 

WW2 63 Yes - 

DK 


W Quinton Lander, Cpl, 4th Leicesters http://www.thisisleicestershire.c 

o.uk/news/Bell-recastdedicated-fallen-soldier/article- 

(Journalist Ralph Fox who died at Cordoba on 28 December 1936 

Machine minder George Hardy who was killed by sniper fire 

on 31 March 1938 

Leslie Maugham, a readers assistant killed by a sniper at Teruel on 

14 January 1938 

Journalist Walter Tapsell who was killed in action on 31 March 

1938) 

None Yes - 

LCC 

2920553-detail/article.html 

http://www.internationalbrigades.org.uk/IBMT%202003 

_1.pdf


reference 


Victoria Park 


Victoria Park 


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- WW1; WW2 Squared Stone of Remembrance of 

white granite. 

- WW2 Tree or Avenue; Tablet or Plaque or 

Board - metal plaque on wooden post 

in niche in hedge on Peace Walk, 

adjacent to associated cherry tree. 

Paper cranes are often hung in the 

tree on the anniversary of the 

bombings. 

WORLD WARS DEFENDING THIS LAND / 

AND YOUR LOVE SHALL OFFER MEMORIAL 

THANKS / TO THE COMRADES WHO 

FOUGHT IN YOUR DAUNTLESS RANKS / 

AND YOU HONOUR THE DEEDS OF THE 

DEATHLESS ONES / REMEMBER THE 

BLOOD OF THY MARTYRED SONS! / FROM 

“THE GIFT OF INDIA” SAROJINI NAIDU 1915 

IN MEMORY OF ALL LEICESTER’S PEOPLE / 

AND THEIR LOVED ONES FROM BRITAIN / 

THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER 

COUNTRIES / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR 

THIS LAND / IN WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR 

II / AND OTHER CONFLICTS ACROSS THE 

WORLD / WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM 

OF US AND SAY / FOR YOUR TOMORROW, 

WE GAVE OUR TODAY 

LEICESTER PEACE ACTION GROUP / “THIS 

TREE, ORIGINALLY PLANTED TO MARK THE 

/ 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR 

BOMBING / OF THE JAPANESE CITIES OF 

HIROSHIMA AND / NAGASAKI, WAS 

REDEDICATED ON 19TH / AUGUST 1995 AS 

PART OF THE THEME “PEACE / AND 

RECONCILIATION” ADOPTED BY THE / 

LEICESTER PEACE ACTION GROUP FOR 

THE / COMMEMORATION OF THE END OF 

THE SECOND / WORLD WAR AND IN THE 

RESOLVE THAT NEVER / AGAIN WILL MASS 

DESTRUCTION BE / PERPETRATED IN THE 

NAME OF PEACE” 

None Yes - 

LCC 

None Yes - 

LCC 


http://www.thisisleicestershire.c 

o.uk/Hiroshimaremembered/story-13120613detail/story.html

Leicester War Memorials - Leicestershire County Council

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