Iwerne Minster And Sutton Waldron WWI / WWII Memorial - Iwerne Minster, Dorset - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

An ornate stone market cross with a closed lantern that surmounts a tapering column. The lantern is surmounted by a carved finial with a crucifix within the niche of the lantern. A further niche at the base of column has a figure of soldier with arms reversed. The column surmounts a plinth which bears a carved inscription and stands on three stepped stone base.

Inscription -

IS IT NOTHING TO YOU ALL YE THAT PASS BY/ IWERNE MINSTER/ (Names)/ SUTTON WALDRON/ (Names)

Names on Memorial -

Private Alfred William Neish, 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
Reported missing August 10th, 1915 at Chunuk Bay, Gallipoli. Aged 21.

Private Reginald Eli(?) James Clark, 5th Battalion Dorset Regiment
Reported missing August 21st, 1915 at Suyla Bay, Gallipoli. Aged 26.

Captain Harold Browne, 1/1 Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
Killed by a shell September 7th, 1915 whilst discharging his duties as Military
Landing Officer on "A" Beach, Suyla Bay, Gallipoli. Aged 30.

Sapper Robert Ashby, Royal Engineers
Died from the effects of German gas poisining December 21st, 1915 at
Becourt(?), Somme, France. Aged 36.

Private William Henry Fisher, 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
Died from fever in Mesopotamia August 9th 1916. Aged 22.

Stoker II. Class Maurice Harry Green, Royal Navy, H. M. S. Diadem
Died from pneumonia February 16th, 1917 in the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. Aged 19.

Private Frederick James Roberts, 20th Canadian Battalion
Killed August 17th, 1917 near Lens, France. Aged 26.

Private Frank Crabb, ?? Battalion Dorset Regiment
Killed in action November 10th, 1917 at Laroe????, Belgium. Aged 21(?)

Private George Stockley, 2/4th Dorset Regiment
Wounded in Palestine 9th April 1918. Died at Massaid, Egypt May 14th, 1918. Aged 34.

Trooper Sidney Charles Wareham, 1/1 Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
Died in Palestine on June 9th, 1918 from wounds. Aged 40.

Gunner Asker Edgar Hubbard, 1086 Battery, 215th Brigade R. F. A.
Died July 20th, 1918 at Station Hospital, Landow, India. Aged 22.

Corporal John Roberts, Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died October 20th, 1918 in Italy from pneumonia. Aged 24.

Private Fred Bridle, 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
Died from wounds October 24th, 1918 in Inchy Hospital, France. Aged 19.

Sergeant Sidney Samuel Hubbard, A. S. C., M. T.
Died in France from pneumonia November 20th, 1918. Aged 27.

Minnie Monro, Red Cross Nurse, V. A. D.
Died from Septic Poisoning July 30th, 1917. Aged 32.

Annie Neish, Red Cross Nurse, V. A. D.
Commenced duties at Reading War Hospital January 1916. Died from
pneumonia October 18th, 1918. Aged 32.

Private Raymond William Brown, 5th Battalion Dorset Regiment
Killed September 26th, 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, France. Aged 18.

Private Harry Frank Tuffin, 5th Battalion Dorset Regiment
Killed September 26th, 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, France. Aged 21.

Private Percy Charles Domoney, 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
Killed April 11th, 1917 at Arras, France. Aged 24.

Cadet Charles James Trowbridge, Inns of Court, O. T. C.
Died at Berkhamsted March 25th, 1918. Aged 18.

Cadet W. G. Barter, attached to R. A. F.
Died at Hampstead Military Hospital October 16th, 1918. Aged 23.

1939 - 1945

Harold Withall Aston, T. D., Lieut.-Col.
Dorset Yeomanry, Pilot Officer, R. A. F. 1941, aged 56

Harold Sealy Woodhouse, T. D., Colonel
Commands & Staff, 1943(?), aged 49(?)

Peter Lewis Fred Geo. Farmer, Sgt.
Searchlight Battery Royal Artillery, 1943, aged 30

George Alfred Brooks, R. A. F., 1945, aged 23.

Horace Spicer, Engineer Officer
B. O. A. Corporation, 1942, aged 32

Bernard Cranton, Lance-Bombardier
Royal Artillery, 1943, aged 37

Bernard Arnold Thos. Bartlett
1st Class Leading Stoker, R. N., 1943, aged 27

SOURCE - (visit link)

"War memorial, 1920 by Giles Gilbert Scott. Doulting stone with Hopton stone dressings. Loosely follows the form of a medieval Dorset market cross (eg. that at Stalbridge). 2 steps to monument base which itself consists of 2 steps. Plinth has polygonal corner shaft s with panelled faces and bears inscription. Shaft of triangular section, the lower part bearing shallow niches flanked by crocketted pinnacles. The western niche contains a carved figure of a soldier supported on a carved corbel. Head bears crocketted finials and contains niches with carved figures of the Crucifixion, St George and Joan of Arc. (P Anderson Graham 'Iwerne Minster before, during and after the Great War', privately printed, probably 1927)."

SOURCE - (visit link)

Private or Public Monument?: Private Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Not known Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Website for this Monument: [Web Link] Physical Address of Monument: Higher Street/Blandford Road A350 Iwerne Minster, Dorset England DT11 8LX Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed

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