St George's Church - Swannington

World War I

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  • Designed by: Arthur J Wood ARIBA, Leicester
  • Listing Status: Grade II
  • District: NW Leics
  • Parish: Swannington

Simple large oval bronze/brass plaque with inscribed description on rectangular wooden backboard above WMP1119. Unveiled 12 November 1919.

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View Further Details Memorial Type:Tablet or Plaque or Board Ref: WMP1118 Other Designation: N/A Notes: Coalville Times, Friday 6th February, 1920. SWANNINGTON WAR MEMORIAL At Swannington Church on Sunday evening, the Rev. T. W. Walters, M.A., vicar of Whitwick, in the absence through illness of the Vicar of Swannington, the Rev. G. Robinson, dedicated a memorial to the memory of 23 Swannington men who fell in the war. Presented by Mr Thomas Atkins, of Swannington, who performed the act of unveiling, the memorial consists of a brass plate mounted on an oak block erected as a mural tablet. It contains the following names of Swannington men who made the supreme sacrifice: William Bird, Samuel Thomas Birkin, James Blythe, John William Barkby, George Bailey, Thomas William Curtis, Harold Curtis, Charles Deadman, Charles Elliott, Leonard George Fowkes, George Henry Irons, Joseph Arthur Johnson, Cedric William Johson, James Taylor Rowse, Alfred Bernard Smith, Arthur Smith, Albert Shakespear, Walter Shaw, Herbert William Watts, Alfred Walster, Percy Walster, William Wardle, and William Young. Commissioned By: Mr Thomas Atkins, Swannington Information Sources: JM

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St George's Church - Swannington
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Inscription Reads

IN ABIDING
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS
PARISH, WHITWICK ST GEORGE
WITH SWANNINGTON, WHO LAID DOWN
THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19
[NAMES]
THEY DIED IN OTHER LANDS
THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN
FREEDOM AND IN
PEACE.

Casualties Listing

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Name Rank Unit Batt Died Bailey - George Private Royal Army Medical Corps Field Ambulance 06/12/1917 Barkby - John William Private Leicestershire Regiment 5 Berkin - Samuel Thomas Private Grenadier Guards 3 29/09/1915 Bird - William Private Leicestershire Regiment 2 25/09/1915 Blyth - James Private Leicestershire Regiment 1/5 11/10/1918
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