War Memorial, Bickley, Cheshire.

War Memorial, Bickley, Cheshire.

Location
St Wenefrede's Church, Bickley, Cheshire.

Description
A lich-gate. The names of those who lost their lives in the first world war are engraved on two oak panels inside the gate.

Inscription

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AD 1914 - 18

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First Panel

THIS TABLET PERPETUATES
THE AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE LIEUT St JOHN
ALAN CHARLTON OF CHOLMONDELEY ONLY SON OF St JOHN
CHARLTON GENT, AND ELIZABETH BRONWEN HIS WIFE WHO
SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR THE HONOUR OF HIS COUNTRY AT THE
BATTLE OF THE AISNE IN FRANCE OCT XXVI MDCCCCXIV IN HIS
XXVth YEAR + AND THOU SHALT BE MISSED BECAUSE THY SEAT
WILL BE EMPTY SAM XX CHAP XVIII VER I ALSO TO THE BLESSED MEMORY
OF THOSE IN THIS PARISH WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THEIR KING
& COUNTRY'S FREEDOM IN THE TERRIBLE EUROPEAN WAR 1914 to 1918
Sapper Thos COFFIN, RE
A HUMPHREYS, KRR
L Corpl E SPEED, L'pool Scots
+
+
+
Corpl Talbot E WILSON, CR
F Jos HOPLEY, C Cont NT
Sig Felix A WALTER, Notts...
Sergt Jos Ankers WILLIAMSON, 8th S Lancs. + ...& Derby Regt
THE LYCH GATE AND THIS TABLET ARE ERECTED BY THE
PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS OF THIS CHURCH
Confort ye my people saith your GOD for warfare is accomplished
and your iniquity is pardoned. Isa XL.i.ii The blessing of peace restored 1919.

Bickley War Memorial

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Second Panel

WHO "GAVE THEIR LIFE"
Pte A WILKINSON, West Riding Regt
Pte Henry PATE, Chesh Regt
Rfn J FAULKNER, K L'pool Reg
Pte Her. LATHAM, Chesh Regt
Pte Wal. THOMAS, Chesh Regt
Pte Heneage LATHAM, E Lancs Regt
Pte Frank HEWITT, Lab Corps
Gun Will. Thos. MURHALL, RFA
THEY SHALL BE MINE SAITH THE LORD OF
HOSTS IN THAT DAY WHEN I MAKE UP MY
JEWELS. Mal iii.XVii.

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Ernest Freeland GORST, MA Vicar
St John CHARLTON
Evan LANGLEY
)
Wardens

War Memorial, Bickley, Cheshire.

DEATH HAS NO STING AND GRAVE NO VICTORY OVER THOSE WHO LOVE
GOD AND SERVE THEIR KING. PRAISE TO GOD.

Carl's Cam