The memorial plaque is a small brass plaque that is located inside St Michael and All Angels Church in Marbury. (
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The plaque is mounted on the pillar next to the wooden pulpit.
The inscription reads as follows;
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HERBERT WICKSTED ETHELSTON
OF WICKSTED
LIEUTENANT GRENADIER GUARDS.
KILLED IN ACTION AT NEUVE CHAPELLE, FRANCE,
ON MARCH 13TH 1915, AGED 33.
"Dat et sumit Deus."
THIS CROSS IS PLACED HERE BY HIS WIFE.'
"Herbert Wickstead Ethelston was born in Park Lane, London on 4th November 1881, the third son of the late Edmund Peel (formerly Ethelston) and the late Henrietta Margaret Peel of Bryn-y-Pys, Overton, Flintshire, Wales.
Husband of Muriel Margaret Ethelston (nee Kennedy) of Wickstead Hall, Whitchurch, Shropshire.
Herbert attended Eton College going up to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Herbert is commemorated on the Overton Memorial in Flintshire, Wales, and the Etonians of the Grenadier Guards WW1 Memorial in High Street, Eton.
Herbert’s father, Edmund, changed his name by Royal Licence from Ethelston to Peel on 29 March 1851. Herbert’s surname was registered at birth as Peel, but he used the original family surname of Ethelston, which he possibly assumed as the condition of an inheritance on his uncle’s death. This is the surname shown on the 1891 census (when he was 9 years old)."
"Report in the Nantwich Guardian 26th March 1915 regarding the death of Herbert Wickstead Ethelston
"News has been received of the death in action at Neuve Chapelle of Lieut. Herbert Ethelston, of the Grenadier Guards. Lieut. Ethelston, who rejoined his regiment on the outbreak of the war, was a younger son of the late Mr. Edmund Peel, of Brynewyl, and a descendent of the late Sir Robert Peel. He built Wickstead Hall, Whitchurch, eight years ago. He was a keen cricketer, and had captained the Shropshire Gentlemen. He was recently appointed vice-president of the Whitchurch Dairy Farmers Association, in succession to Captain R. W. Ethelston, who died last year."
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