The Lee

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War Memorial on the Green

Thanks be to God
which giveth us the
victory, through our
Lord Jesus Christ.


Edgar Gerald ADAMS	John Thomas PEARCE
Arthur BROWN	Albert PHILLIPS
Ralph William BROWN	Charles Percy PHIPPS
Frank CHANNER	Constantine James PHIPPS
Harold CLARK	Christopher PICTON
George DORRELL	Harry PRATT
Percy Edward DWIGHT	Percy Allen PRICE
Sydney James DWIGHT	Harold Richard RODWELL
Harry HARDING	Ralph RODWELL
Harry HARDING	Albert RUTLAND
Frederick HEARN	Edward SHARPE
George HEARN	Beresford Edgar SYDNEY
George Henry HEARN	Charles TALMER
William MARCHAM	Harry TALMER
Arnold William MORRIS	Rowland Henry WOOD

Headstones in the churchyard:
W.F. GREEN

War Memorial inside the church

From No Finer Courage: A Village in the Great War by Michael Senior

"Just before he died, Canon Phipps presented an altar cross and two candlesticks in memory of his two sons Jim and Charles. The cross is still on the altar but the two candlesticks were stolen in 1973"

The following appear on the war Memorial within the church but not on the village War Memorial

Captain Cecil Murdoch GAMAGE

Private Edward William GREEN

Driver Edward RODWELL

(Herbert Duxbury appears on a window only)

2nd Lieutenant Herbert Cecil DUXBURY

The Roll of Honour Book within the Church

A plaque on the Village War Memorial

Nine men from this village were slain at Fromelles, Northern France, on 19th July 1916. Their names are recorded on this war memorial and soil from their graves in France was brought back in 2001 and buried beneath this plaque in honour and remembrance of their gallantry and sacrifice

Photos by Peter Underwood