- Type of Memorial
- Chapel: Dedicated within church building
- WMR Reference Number
- 17561
- Description
- This memorial comprises the dedicated "Soldiers' Chapel" in the north transept; the inscriptions that were added to the interior/exterior faces of its 15th Century stone rood screen in 1921; the inscribed dedicatory stone tablet in the Chapel; and the relief-cast bronze plaques bearing the WW1 and WW2 inscriptions and names it contains: i.e. four WW1 plaques fixed to the north wall, and two WW2 plaques fixed to the east wall.
[N.B. Knowle Parish Church has a complex array of memorials re various wars and conflicts throughout history.
In 1921 the Church transformed its original Chantry Chapel in the north transept into a dedicated "Soldiers' Chapel", and installed four bronze plaques on its north wall, bearing the names of parishioners who died in WW1. (*It also erected a stone Cross in the churchyard, bearing a dedicatory inscription only, i.e. no names - see note below). It subsequently installed two bronze plaques on the Chapel's east wall, bearing the names of parishioners who died in WW2.
This record (WMR 17561) specifically relates to the "Soldiers' Chapel" and those 6 bronze plaques. Details of other war memorials in the Church and churchyard are in our following separate records:
WMR 19873 (*re the Cross erected in the churchyard in 1921);
WMR 17560 (re the 'Centenary Pillars', erected in the churchyard 2018);
WMR 17571 (re the WW1 stained glass window in the Soldiers' Chapel, commemorating Captain S. W. Ludlow, Private T Cooper, Lieutenant J. Balkwill, all of whom were killed in the Battle of Beaumont Hamel);
WMR 17572 (re the WW1 plaque commemorating Lance Corporal W A J Bird);
WMR 3150 (re the WW1 plaque commemorating Harry Mitchell Harris, 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Infantry);
WMR 64083 (re the WW1 Battlefield Cross of Gunner H Watts, Royal Field Artillery);
WMR 17562 (re the Boer War plaque commemorating William Marston, 5th Company (Warwickshire) Imperial Yeomanry);
WMR 17728 (re the Boer War stained Glass window commemorating William Marston)
WMR 84013 (re the bronze plaque commemorating Lance Corporal Thomas Richard Keys, Royal Military Police, who died in Iraq 2003);
WMR 84011 (re the trench-art Cross commemorating Staff Sergeant Brett George Linley, GM, of the 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps, who died in Afghanistan on 17th July 2010);
WMR 17550 (re the WW1 Roll of Honour of 'Natives or Residents of Chadwick End; who served in HM Forces);
WMR 3149 (re the 'Battle of Jutland' tablet and fragment of HMS Black Prince's White Ensign);
WMR 28373 (re the commemoration ofWW1 casualty, Rifleman Frank Aldington, 2nd Rifle Brigade, on a family grave in the churchyard);
WMR 12069 (re the commemoration of WW1 casualty, Private Reginald Milner Blakemore, on a family grave in the churchyard].
