War Memorial, The Chapel, Dean Row, Cheshire.

War Memorial, The Chapel, Dean Row, Cheshire.

Location

On an external wall of Dean Row Unitarian Chapel, Dean Row, near Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Description

Two metal plaques are framed by virginia creeper on this carefully tended three-hundred year old church. The plaques name those of the church who fell in the two world wars.

In the church there is a wooden cross from a first world war military cemetery in France. It once marked the grave of Lieut-Colonel Claude Swanwick WORTHINGTON, a member of the church.

Inscription - War Memorials

TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
Robert John BRANDRETH
Frank BRANDRETH
Arthur Blake SCOTT
Harry WILLIAMSON
Claude Swanwick WORTHINGTON
WHO
COUNTING NOT THEIR LIVES DEAR
UNTO THEMSELVES DIED FOR
FREEDOM AND COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919

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ALSO
May BRANDON
John Douglas BARBER
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE WAR
1939 - 1945

War Memorial, The Chapel, Dean Row, Cheshire.

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Inscription - The Cross

THIS CROSS MARKED THE GRAVE OF
LIEUT-COLONEL
CLAUDE   SWANWICK   WORTHINGTON
D.S.O.   *   T.D.   6th   MANCHESTER REGIMENT
WHO DIED ON OCTOBER 14th 1918 OF WOUNDS
RECEIVED   IN   ACTION   NEAR   EPINOY  AND
WAS   BURIED   IN   MOUNT HUON   CEMETERY
LE TREPORT, FRANCE.




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