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War Memorial

Sunday, 4th June, 1922 saw the unveiling and dedication of the War Memorial in the Market Place.

'The War Memorial in front of the Parish Church of St Deny's, six steps to a hexagonal stone base with niches with cusped heads containing the names of the dead and supports three statues of warrior kings and a slender shaft terminating in a Rood.'

Detail of one of the three 'Warrior Kings'

IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF SLEAFORD, QUARRINGTON AND HOLDINGHAM WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

Bert Arnold
John R. Arnold
William Attiwell

James Barnatt
George W. Barton
Maurice Bellamy
Paul Bennett
Fred Bigley
William H. Bowles
William Bristow
Arthur E. Brown
George W. Brown
Harry L. Burley
Cyril Burton
David Byde

J. Edward Caborn
Clarence H. Cant
Charles C. Carter
Samuel Carter
T. Leonard Castle
William F. Chambers
Frank Clare
Ernest C. Clark
John E. Clarke
Percy Clarke
H. Percy Cleary
Christopher W. Corton
Frederick M. Coulston
Harold Coupland
Clarence S. Cox
R. Arthur Coy
E. Vernon Cracknell
George Cunnington
Albert Curt

William Dickenson

Albert Ellis
Charles W. Ellis
Fred Ellis
George Ellis
William J. Elvin
John Engledow
J. Sydney Evison

Horace Feneley
John W. Fish
George Fisher
William G. Fortnum

John R. Grimes
George W. Gunthorpe

Joseph Harby
George Harby
George Hardy
R. Harold Hardy
J. William Hill
Luke E. Holderness
Charles W. Hollingworth
Charles E. Holmes
Charles Hotchin
W. Dickinson Hubbard
Arthur T. Humphrey
W. Hunter

Sidney Ingall

Arthur H. Jones
Ernest G. Jones
Lawrance E. Joyce

H. Sydney Kay
Edward Kettles

Thomas H. King
C. Gordon Kirk
Gerard A. Kirk

Victor Le Francois
Sydney Leuillette
George T. Leete
C. Richard Lewis
R. Lewis
William E. Leyland
Arthur Lill
Frederick W. Lill
Glendy Lord
William Lord
Speed Lunn
Charles H. Lynn

William Mann
G. Arthur Mawer
Herbert Mawer
Cyril May
John G. Metcalfe
Richard Morley

George Nightingale

J. Parkin
James M. Pask
Henry A.W. Peake
Cecil G.W. Peake
Kenneth J.W. Peake
Albert Pell
Herbert H. Pell
James W. Pollard
Harry Porter
J. William Porter
John W. Pountain

James R. Reed
Charlie Rudkin
John W. Rudkin
Henry A. Rush

William Sandom
Henry Sellars
Arthur Sewards
Phillip R. Shannon
Sydney A. Sharpe
Arthur G. Shilton
William H. Slater
Albert Smith
Alfred E. Smith
Charles Smith
Charles N. Stanyon
Frank Stringer

Herbert Taylor
Robert Thompson
Robert H. Thompson
Henry Tindale
Arthur Topps
Thomas S. Townsend

George Veale
Cecil Vickers

Fred Waddingham
William Waddingham
Robert W. Ward
Fred Watton
C. Ronald Whitaker
John Wilson
Arthur S. Wilson
Horace Wise
Henry J. Wood
Herbert E. Wyer

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE WAR
1939 - 1945

Harold S.C. Bee
George E Benfield
Frederick L. Bettany
Donald B. Bratley
Harold Burley

Leslie H. Callow
Maurice H. Chamberlain
Eric V. Clay
Gordon D. Colby
Cyril C. Corby
John W. Cowans
Bernard Cross

Alfred Daubney
Leslie N. Doughty

Walter Gash

George D. Healpstead
Douglas W Holmes
John W. Houlden

Herbert Joyce

Peter C. Middlebrooke

Edward W. Money

Gilbert A. Poole
George A. Procter
Ivor W. Prosser

Frederick Rear
Coy Roper
Robert W. Richardson
Alfred H. Ridley

William H. Sellars
Charles L. Shaw
Eric Skelton
John F. Sharp
Alan F. Smith
Edward E. Smith
Kenneth Stopper

Clifton W. Trollope
Herbert E. Thorpe
Arthur E. Todd

Ralph B Wainer
Clarence Wing
Roy Wheatley
Anthony Ward
Harry Warne

Further detail of the 'Warrior Kings'