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English: War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Leighs, Essex. UK National Inventory of War Memorials No.22246 http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.22246

Unveiled at 2.30 P.M. on 12th December 1920 by Major General Sir George Scott Moncrieff, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.I.E. Late Director of Fortifications & Works, 1914-1918 Unveiling Programme: Pages 1&4: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/UnveilingProgrammePage1and4E.jpg Pages 2&3: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/UnveilingProgrammePage2and3E.jpg

Set in the 1715 boundary wall outside St Mary the Virgin Church is the Memorial to the men of the Parish of Great Leighs who gave their lives in the World Wars of 1914~1919 and 1939~1945. The text reads:

GREAT LEIGHS 1920 THIS TABLET WAS PLACED HERE BY THE PARISHIONERS OF GREAT LEIGHS IN HONORED MEMORY OF FELLOW PARISHIONERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 ~ 1919 . THEY WHOM THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES 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

CHARLES CLOUGHTON http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=554480 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofCharlesCloughton.htm ERNEST GEORGE CLOUGHTON http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4003835 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofErnestGeorgeCloughton.htm CHARLES COOK http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=81190 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofCharlesCook.htm CHARLES JOSEPH DIGBY http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=652242 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofCharlesJosephDigby.htm ERNEST DIGBY http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=481052 WILLIAM DUKE http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1580244 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofWilliamDuke.htm ARCHIE FITCH http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=535643 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofArchieFitch.htm ARTHUR FITCH http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4004054 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofArthurFitch.htm DICK FITCH http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=878601 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofDickFitch.htm GEORGE BENNETT FITCH http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2757178 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofGBFitch.htm FREDERICK MANSFIELD http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1634391 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofFrederickMansfield.htm CHARLES JONATHAN RAYNER http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1550378 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofCharlesJonathanRayner.htm HARRY SARGEANT http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4037365 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofHarrySargeant.htm ALAN GEORGE TRITTON http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=262206 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofAlanGeorgeTritton.htm ALFRED REGINALD WARD http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=332202 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofAlfredReginaldWard.htm CHARLES HENRY WARD http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=325555 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofCharlesHenryWard.htm ERNEST WRIGHT http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=337906 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofErnestWright.htm HERBERT GEORGE WRIGHT http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=912159 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofPrivateHerbertGeorgeWright.htm LOUIS WALTER WRIGHT http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2757143 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofLouisWalterWright.htm

1939 ~ 1945 ERIC SYDNEY BRIGGS http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2037152 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofEricSydneyBriggs.htm DAVID COARD http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2721798 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofDavidCoard.htm DAVID GORDON COUSINS http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2507698 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofDavidGordonCousins.htm ALAN HULL http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2177355 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofAlanHull.htm RICHARD FRANK TOWNEND http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2975445 Memorial: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofRichardFrankTownend.htm ALFRED BERNARD READ http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2233817 Grave: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/trevorwrightdotcom/Memorials/InMemoryofAlfredBernardRead.htm

Louis Walter Wright and David Coard are buried within the Churchyard.

"They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them." Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today." US 14th Army War Memorial, Kohema, Burma


The links to the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission beside each name above are thought to be correct. Please contact me with any corrections. Ernest Wright and Herbert George Wright were my Great Uncles. Additional images of the Graves or Memorials will be added as they become available.

I am most grateful to Pat Watkinson and Terry Goddard for their research and photographs.

Research based on: "Echoes of the Great War - The Diary of the Reverend Andrew Clark 1914-1919" Oxford University Press 1985. ISBN 0-19-212984-8

The position of the Memorial can be seen in a view of St Marys Church available here: 1368883

For more information on St. Marys, see here: http://www.churchesattheleighsandlittlewaltham.co.nr/
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