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CHARMINSTER WAR MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF CHARMINSTER

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

AUGUST 4TH 1914 TO NOVEMBER 11TH 1918

THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS VILLAGE

TO PERPETUATE THEIR GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

AND THEIR HOPE FOR THEM IN CHRIST

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ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-18 Commemorated on the South Face of War Memorial

RANK	NAME	REGIMENT	PLACE & DATE OF DEATH
Lieutenant	OFFLEY C.W. THOMPSON	West Yorkshire Regiment	France September 20th 1914
Private	REGINALD F. WEEDEN	Dorset Yeomanry	Gallipoli August 21st 1915
Private	ERNEST R. ROLLS	Dorset Regiment	Gallipoli December 8th 1915
Private	C. RUPERT SKINNER	Royal Field Artillery	France April 21 1916
Private	SYDNEY THOMAS	Sherwood Foresters	France September 16th 1916
2nd Lieutenant	ARTHUR SYMONDS	Royal Fusiliers	France February 17th 1917
Private	WILLIAM H. KING	Dorset Regiment	Mesopotamia (2nd) February 1917
Private	JOSEPH T. WATTS	Royal Berkshire Regiment	France March 11th 1917
Private	FREDERICK J. OXENBURY	Dorset Regiment	Mesopotamia June 9th 1917
Private	JOHN FURMAGE	Dorset Regiment	Mesopotamia July 10th 1917

ROLL OF HONOUR 1939-45 Commemorated on the South Face of War Memorial Lower Steps

RANK	NAME	REGIMENT	PLACE & DATE OF DEATH
Cpl	WILLIAM H. RICHARDS	Royal Armoured Corps	Holland September 26th 1944
Private	W. THOMAS SNOOK	East Surrey Regiment	Italy December 1st 1944
Major	W. MALCOLM DEAS	Royal Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps	Germany April 21st 1940

ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-18 Commemorated on the North Face of War Memorial

RANK	NAME	REGIMENT	PLACE & DATE OF DEATH
Private	WILLIAM W. WATTS (reads WALLS on memorial)	Grenadier Guards	France October 11th 1917
2nd Lieutenant	ROBERT SAUNDERS	Machine Gun Corps	France October 26th 1917
Private	WALTER E. JOINER	Dorset Regiment	France March 27th 1918
Major	FRANCIS GRAHAM D.S.O. M.C.	Royal Field Artillery	France March 28th 1918
Private	P. GEORGE PEARCE	Dorset Regiment	France April 5th 1918
Private	LEONARD C. DUNFORD	Dorset Regiment	Egypt April 9th 1918
Private	HERBERT C. CLARK	Dorset Regiment	Egypt April 9th 1918
Private	GEORGE A.W. BISHOP	Lancashire Fusiliers	France June 1st 1918
Private	FREDERICK C. NORTHOVER	Royal Berkshire Regiment	France August 27th 1918

ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-18 Commemorated on the West Face of War Memorial

Private	M. DEVENISH MEYER	Ball Kings Own Shropshire L.I.	Flanders May 4th 1918
Private	H. DEVENISH MEYER	3 (Transvall) Batt South African Inf	February 26th 1917
Private	FREDERICK E. KNIGHT	Dorset Regiment	June 27th 1920

ROLL OF HONOUR 1939-45 Commemorated on the West Face of War Memorial Lower Steps

Private	JOSEPH E. WALLS	RASC	France May 23rd 1940
Private	RONALD W. TERRELL	Dorset Regiment	July 2nd 1940
L.A.C.	ALEXANDER LEE-NORMAN	R.A.F.V.R.	November 14th 1941

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