Major W G Usher window - St George - Fovant, Wiltshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Three gothic arch stained glass windows in memory of Rev Robert Usher and his wife Alice, also of their son Major W.G. Usher who fell in Italy in WWII

Left window, at centre: A shield with the cross of St. George within a wreath.
Centre window: A figure of St George holding a spear, standing astride a dragon.
Right window: (unknown device - it appears to be a crowned swan holding a scallop shell) within a wreath
Across the width of the three windows, at the base an inscription within a scroll -

S GEORGE/TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE REV. ROBERT USHER M.A./ RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 1919-1942 WHO DIED 22 JUNE 1943 AGED 78 YEARS AND OF HIS WIFE ALICE MABEL USHER/ WHO DIED 9 JANUARY 1948 AGED 75 YEARS AND HIS YOUNGEST SON MAJOR W.G. USHER, KILLED/ IN ITALY 31ST DECEMBER 1944 WHILST SERVING WITH THE 8TH ARMY.

"Son of the Reverend Robert and Alice Mabel Usher who was Rector of Fovant 1919-42. A Major in 26. Lt.A.A.Regt, Royal Artillery he died on 31st December 1944, aged 33. Like his Brother Christopher, who was killed in the 1914 -18 war, his name is not noted on the village war memorial, but there is a memorial window to him in the church. He is buried in the Florence War Cemetery in Italy, although the grave may have been moved from the nearby Arrow Route Cemetery following fighting in the Apennines during the winter of 1944-45."

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