Site Baxter United Church, Kidderminster DY10 2AA
Latitude 52.388414
Longitude -2.25006
Dated erected 29 Jan 1922
White Marble Plaque
Names of the fallen
Surname | Forename | Rank | Number | Regiment | Date of Death | Age | Country | Notes Place of Death or Remembrance | Ref |
Adam | Frank Dalziel | Lieutenant | RO | 3rd Bn. Rifle Brig. | 16 Jul 1918 | 21 | France | Buried Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery, British Extension, | KID1 |
Adam | Peter | 2nd Lieutenant | RO | 3rd. Rifle Brigade | 31 Jul 1917 | 23 | Belgium | Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, | KID1 |
Adam | Ronald William | 2nd Lieutenant | RO | 13th Battery 56th Brigade Royal Field Artillery | 11 Sep 1917 | 27 | Iraq | Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, | KID1 |
Ashcroft | James | Driver | 830454 | C Battery 311th Brigade Royal Field Artillery | 2 May 1917 | 20 | France | Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension | KID1 |
Astle | John William | Private | 15809 | D Company 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment | 19 Aug 1916 | 19 | France | Thiepval Memorial | KID1 |
Beaber | Henry Arthur | Private | 27411 | 1st Bn. Worcestershire | 5 Aug 1916 | 26 | France | Loos Memorial | KID1 |
Beaman | Thomas | Rifleman | 52483 | 12th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles | 2 Sep 1918 | 19 | Belgium | Nieuwkerke (Neuve-Eglise) Church | KID1 |
Beaman | William Charles | Driver | 92572 | A Batt. 86th Brigade RFA | 30 May 1918 | 21 | France | Daours Communal Cemetery Extension | KID1 |
Butcher | Charles Leslie | Captain | CO | 2nd/7th Batt. Worcestershire | 24 Jul 1916 | 32 | France | Buried Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue | KID1 |
Collinge | Raymond Leonard | Sergeant | 200292 | 1st/7th Bn. Worcestershire | 1 Apr 1917 | 25 | France | Buried Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, Epehy, | KID1 |
Hancock | George | Private | 13034 | 12th Royal Hampshire | 24 Apr 1917 | 25 | Greece | Doiran Memorial, Greece. | KID1 |
Kerr | Cameron Harris | Corporal (Signaller) | 325407 | Queens Own Worcestershire Royal Hussars | 19 Apr 1917 | 23 | Egypt | Jerusalem Memorial, Israel | KID1 |
Manson | Alexander | Private | 33491 | 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. | 10 Aug 1917 | 20 | Belgium | Buried Aeroplane Cemetery, Belgium | KID1 |
Mayo | Arthur | Private | 235296 | 1st Bn. Worcestershire | 2 Jan 1918 | 19 | France | Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery | KID1 |
Mayo | Charles | Private | 41710 | 8th Bn. Lincolnshire | 31 Jul 1917 | 24 | Belgium | Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial | KID1 |
Moore | Arthur | Corporal | 5300 | 10th Bn. Royal Warwickshire | 8 Jun 1917 | 29 | Belgium | Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial | KID1 |
Morgan | Percy Swain | RSM | 856 | 16th Bn. Royal Warwickshire | 31 Dec 1915 | 49 | France | Corbie Communal Cemetery | KID1 |
Morris | Samuel | Corporal | 92 | 1st/7th Bn. Worcestershire | 11 May 1915 | 27 | Belgium | Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery | KID1 |
Clark | Joshua | Private | 203748 | 1st/7th Bn. Worcestershire | 11 Oct 1918 | 29 | Italy | Barenthal Military Cemetery, | KID1 |
Pagett | John Lionel | Private | 17208 | 3rd Bn. Worcestershire | 14 Jul 1916 | 26 | France | Thiepval Memorial, | KID1 |
Pagett | John Walter | Private | 21480 | 4th Bn. Worcestershire | 6 Aug 1915 | 33 | Turkey | Helles Memorial | KID1 |
Postings | Edgar Charles | Private | 27160 | 3rd Bn. Worcestershire | 2 Nov 1916 | 20 | Belgium | Tancrez Farm Cemetery | KID1 |
Poyner | Ernest | L/ Corporal | 42200 | 2nd Bn South Wales Borderers | 21 Nov 1917 | 25 | France | Marcoing British Cemetery | KID1 |
Poyner | William | Private | 341 | 11th Bn Australian Infantry Australian Imperial Force | 2 May 1915 | 22 | Turkey | Lone Pine Memorial | KID1 |
Price | Wilfred Ernest | L/ corporal | 26519 | 3rd bn. Worcestershire | 16 Jul 1917 | 27 | Belgium | Buried lijssenthoek military cemetery | Kid1 |
Reynolds | Frank | Private | 16874 | 9th bn. Gloucestershire | 25 Apr 1917 | 29 | Greece | Doiran memorial | Kid1 |
Roberts | Ewart James | Private | 45540 | 8th bn. Royal Berkshire | 8 Aug 1918 | 19 | France | Buried beacon cemetery, sailly-laurette | Kid1 |
Roberts | James | Id not confirmed | Kid1 | ||||||
Smith | Arthur | Private | 41210 | 10th bn. Royal Dublin Fus. | 23 Mar 1918 | 32 | France | Pozieres memorial | Kid1 |
Todd | James | Sergeant | 15040 | 1st bn. Worcestershire | 6 Dec 1915 | 22 | France | Buried Bailleul communal cemetery extension, nord | Kid1 |
Waldron | William Herbert | L/ corporal | Sd3503 | 13th bn. Royal Sussex | 1 Aug 1917 | 24 | Belgium | Buried Brandhoek new military cemetery | Kid1 |
Wellings | Francis | Private | 200625 | 1st bn. Worcestershire | 1 Apr 1918 | 22 | France | Pozieres memorial | Kid1 |
White | Jack | Private | 35585 | 2nd bn. Devonshire | 24 Jul 1917 | 21 | Belgium | Buried Perth cemetery (china wall) | Kid1 |
Whittall | Harold Thomas | Id not confirmed | Kid1 |
The History of Baxter War Memorial
Baxter United Reform Church
Baxter United Reform Church has a Great War, Wall Memorial and window.
The Wall Memorial Plaque was dedicated in early 1920s it was placed on the wall facing the entrance of the church by the pulpit. It is a pink veined white marble tablet with flat pediment. It has a white chequered border with mother of pearl at each corner around the names.
Measurements: Height 820mm, width 1100mm.
The inscription is in Black. Lettering is in red.
This Tablet records with gratitude and affection the names
Of those connected with this church who grave their lives
In the Great War 1914-1919
Birmingham Daily Gazette 30 Jan 1922
Mr P Adams yesterday unveiled at Baxters Historic Church, Kidderminster two Memorial Windows and a Memorial tablet. The first window given by the family, was in memory of William Adams, for twenty two year was deacon of the church who died in 1898. The second window was given by Mr and Mrs P Adams in memory of their son Lieutenant P Adams who was killed in Flanders.
The tablet was to the thirty four men of the church and school who fell in the war. An Address was given by Rev E. D. Braimbridge
Sources
Rememberthefall.co.uk
Compilers Name Jackie Cotterill Photos by Jackie Cotterill Date 27 Oct 2018