Tree Planting Memorial 2018 - Sulby Claddagh, Isle of Man - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

This memorial of 23 oak trees planted by the Lezayre Parish Commissioner can be found in Sulby Claddagh. The trees were planted to commemorate the 23 men listed on the Parish War Memorial who gave their lives during the Great War. The Commissioners were helped in the tree planting by the Isle of Man Government Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture.

There is information on the memorial in a glass fronted case near the trees. The text of this information is shown below:
"Lezayre Parish Commissioners
To Commemorate the 100th Aniversary of the end of the First World War
These 23 oak trees have been planted by the Commissioners in memory of the 23 men listed on the Parish War Memorial who gave thier lives during the Great War
"We will remember them"

Below this are listed the names of the men who gave their lives which are either side of a line-drawing of a soldier in the military uniform of the Great War.

At the base is the following text:
"Tree Planting Memorial 2018
With Kind Support From DEFA"

In each corner of the display are rememberance poppies.

The names, home villages and the regiments in which they served are shown below:
JACK BERRY - Milntown - Border Regiment
RICHARD C CAIN - Staward at Sulby - RAF
JOHN R CALLOW - The Geary - Denbigh Hussars
WILLIAM A CALLOW - Canadian Mounted Regiment
DANIEL CANNON - Riverdale - King's Liverpool Regiment
WILLIAM COTTIER - Sulby - King's Liverpool Regiment
F ALLEN COWELL - Sulby - RFA
JOHN R CORLETT - Ballachrink - South Lancs Regiment
A ARTHUR CORLETT - Riverdale - Grenadier Guards
JOHN R CORLETT - Ballachree - Manchester Regiment
JAMES B S KELLY - Greenland - RNR
WILIAM E KERMEEN - Glenduff - North Lancs Regiment
WILLIAM A KNEALE - Sulby - King's Liverpool Regiment
WILLIAM KNEALE - Sulby - King's Liverpool Regiment
ALFRED KEWLEY - Sulby - New Zealand Infantry
ALFRED KINRADE - The Grest - HMS Talbot
WILLIAM R LORD - Ballachrink - Howe BN RND
WILLIAM M McGEAGH - Mona Lodge - South Lancs Regiment
JAMES QUARRIE - The Dhoor - RFA
JAMES A QUAYLE - Ellabane - Royal Army Medical Corp
WILLIAM R QUAYLE - Glen Auldyn - RASC
ROBERT K SOUTHWARD - Sulby - Manchester Regiment
WILLIAM S WILSON - Staward at Sulby - RCA

Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 01/01/2018 Private or Public Monument?: Government Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Lezayre Parish Commissioners Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Physical Address of Monument: Sulby Claddagh Recreational AreaIsle of Man Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Website for this Monument: Not listed

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