Queen Elizabeth's Community College - World War memorial

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Plaque at Queen Elizabeth's Community College (the old hall of the 1860 Grammar School building) transcribed by Dr Michael J. Fennessy in 2006

Date: 1914 - 1945

One Board lists those who lost their lives in the two wars of the 20th Century. All persons are male, presumably all ex-pupils. Highly abbreviated text to right of each name refers to "regiment" or branch of the military in which the men served.

Full details of the memorial (including a photograph and its exact location) can be accessed by downloading the data file from the CMIAR website.

Transcription

ROLL OF HONOUR THE GREAT WAR

1914 1919

[Top Left Panel]
1915
CRISPIN. D. C. DEVON R.
JESSOP. J. W. LINC. R.
MANN. W. AUST. I.
MONTAGUE. F. D. LINC. R.
SHAPLAND. R. E. AUST. I.
SYMES. C. W. DORSET R.
WATSON. G. C. DEVON R.
YOUNG. R. R. DEVON R.
1916
AUBER. C. St LO R. F. A.
CAINES. J. A. H. R. F.
DREW. H. Y. R. F.
JOHNSON. G. A. C. S. R.
KNEEL. J. A. C. R. N.
MANATON. F. H. YORK. R.
ROBINSON. T. M. W. R. N.
RUNDLE. C. S. I. M. S.
TOWT. L. C. DEVON R.
1917
EDWARDES. H. F. D. C. L. I.

[Top Right Panel]
1917
HAMBLY. D. C. R. F.
HOOPER. G. A. DEVON. R.
GORDON-RALPH. P. J. R. I. R.
MACKENZIE. L. C. CANAD. I.
MALLETT. H. Q. VICT. R.
MORGAN. S. H. SURREY R.
ORGAN. H. C. GLOS. R.
TREMLETT. E: D. S. O. DEVON R.
WROTH. R. E. DEVON Y.
1918
FEAR. E. L. B. SOM. L. I.
HILL. R. P. R. F. A.
HOLWILL. W. B. R. F. A.
ROSLING. C. H. D. C. L. I.
SCOTT. M. G: M. C. R. A. F.
SOUTHCOTT. W. H. R. E.
VENN. H. J. P. P. C. L. I.
1919
NICHOLAS. J. A. R. F. A.
ROSE. J. V. WILT. R.

[End of Top Panels]

SECOND WORLD WAR

[Bottom Left Panel]
HOLMAN. W. J.
SLADE. S. W.
HIGGINS. C. J.
JONES. L. G.
MILDON. T. R.
HUTCHINGS. N. R.
MANNING. C. R.
SPRAGUE. A.
PALMER. G. T.
DISCOMBE. C. W.
COSSINS. A.
RICHARDSON. T. A.
PHILLIPS. H .M. B.
MUSK. D. J. C.
SAMBELL. A. J.

[Bottom Right Panel]
CHERRY. A. J.
MILLER. E.
PYATT. K. N.
DENING. B. C.

1916
WOLFE-MURRAY P. G. R. N. V. R.

[End of Left and Right Panels]

DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
1939 1945
[Translation of the Latin text:]
"Lovely and honourable it is to die for one's country"
[from Horace, Odes, III, ii,13]
OR (literally) "It is sweet and decorous to die for the fatherland"