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Little History of Cherington and Stourton, Warwickshire |
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| World War One - Memorials in Sutton-under-Brailes | ||
For details of memorials in neighbouring Cherington and Stourton, click here |
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The parish of Sutton-under-Brailes, with a population of less than 100, is separated from the centre of Stourton by just a couple of fields. After the Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Stourton was closed (it was later converted into a private dwelling), the memorial to members of its congregation was taken to the Parish Church of St Thomas à Becket at Sutton. This relocation in 1986 may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that only four of the nineteen men on the chapel memorial were from Sutton families. |
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Church of St Thomas à Becket |
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Details from the Stourton Chapel war memorial showing the date of its re-dedication and soldiers listed. |
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Notes on the above WW1 soldiers. |
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All the soldiers who lost their lives are recorded on the Cherington and Stourton memorial. For details see the Cherington and Stourton page, here. |
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Most of the survivors appear on the memorial panels in the Parish Church at Cherington. They are Frank, George and David Bailey; Harold Bartlett; Charles and Percy Godson; Albert Taylor; Walter Walker and Albert Woolams. Albert appears more correctly on the Cherington church memorial, as Woolliams - a surname almost certainly pronounced as it is written on the chapel scroll. The memorial states that George and David Bailey and Albert Woolliams had received wounds, while Walter Walker had been "wounded twice". This leaves Harry Compton, Ernest Harris, Hargreaves Sutton and William James Sutton, all of whom are identifiable with reasonable certainty from the 1901 census for Sutton-under-Brailes. Harry is probably the Henry Compton who appears, aged 4, son of carpenter John Sutton and his wife Catherine; Ernest Harris was probably the son, then aged 11, of John, a farm labourer, and Harriet; while Hargeaves and William James were almost certainly brothers: Hargreaves, then aged 4, had an elder brother William, aged 7 at the time of the census; their mother was Minnie, and their father Frederick, a farm carter. Ernest and Hargreaves were shown to have been wounded. |
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Memorial to the fallen
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| Eleven young men from Sutton went off to the war; nine came back. In Cherington and Stourton, over one in four gave their lives; the death toll here is therefore almost as heavy. A stone memorial was erected on the village green to the two soldiers who died for their country. | ||
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 Four of the five Harris men commemorated (all except Ernest) were brothers. |
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