Hucclecote War MemorialHucclecote War Memorial Inscriptions

The memorial is located at the corner of Hucclecote Rd. and Green Lane in Hucclecote, Gloucestershire, England.
Listing and photograph taken in 2007.


THIS CROSS IS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO FROM THIS PARISH
GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

1914-1918

Richard Ewart Bartlett Leslie Stafford Herbert
Frederick C. Bircher Leonard Langan
William E. Bircher Willam J. Morris
Maurice F. Bircher Henry Restall
William G. Bircher John Thompson
Granville Murray-Browne Arthur L. Walford
Orde Murray- Browne Sidney B. Walford
Edward P. Critchley Christopher J. Walker
George N. Gastrell Christopher G. Warren
Reginald Bramley Hart Frederick C. Mann

ALSO TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

Frank Bartlett John Griffiths
Harry Brown Trevor Jones
Leslie Brown Raymond C. Lane
Montague Drake Frederick D.G. Leahy
Cuthbert W. Ellis Kenneth B. Tyndall

AND THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS PARISH THROUGH ENEMY ACTION

Harriet E. Barnes Jean M. Henderson
Beatrice M. Henderson Joyce E. Henderson
James Henderson John C. Long

Rhoda E. Wilkes

NOTES:

Frank Bartlett lived in a small cottage on The Green at the end of Green Lane. He was reported Missing, later confirmed Killed in Action with the Royal Marines during the landings on Walcheren Island in 1944. [Information supplied by Donald Brown]

Flight Engineer Sergeant Trevor Jones. Died in December 1942, aged 19. During a routine navigational training flight the aircraft encountered severe turbulence at 23,000 ft. above Carmarthenshire. He was injured whilst parachuting from the stricken aircraft. The other three aircrew bailed out and survived.

Enemy action in the Parish. The memorial includes a commemoration to seven people, including the HENDERSON family, who lost their lives when a bomb fell on a shop and houses in Hucclecote road on Easter Saturday, 4 April 1942. The area is near to the Royal Oak pub, and is now occupied by a small parade of shops.

The HENDERSON family consisted of James and Beatrice and their children, 3 years old Jean and 10 months old Joyce.