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Sunday 3 August 2014

Theydon Garnon: War Memorial

The War Memorial Tablet for Theydon Garnon can be found inside the village church on the east wall of the north aisle.  It reads:

AMDC
In affectionate remembrance
of those who fell in the Great War
1914 – 1919
The Parish set up this record

Major Adam Dickson Bell    4th Hussars
Capt. Atherton Harold Chisenhale-Marsh    9th Lancers
Capt. Philip Everard Graham Marsh    RAF
Lieut. James Craig    Royal Air Force
Lieut. Harold Clement Montague Lucas    2nd Ghurkuas
Lieut. Walter Austin Rowley    8th Leicestershire
Lieut. St George Swaine Showers    2nd Essex Regt.
Rev. Arthur Henry Marsh    Chaplain USA
Sergt. Edward Downham    2nd Battn Kings Royal Rifles
Seaman Arthur Betts    Royal Naval Reserve
Pte. Charles Edward Banford    9th Essex
Pte. William Burton    17th Middlesex
Pte. John North Davis    Queen Victoria Rifles
Pte. Thomas Edgar    1st Battn Essex Regt.
Pte. Jesse Freshwater    1st Battn Essex Regt.
Pte. Percy Freshwater    1st Battn Essex Regt.
Rfn. Edward Alfred Furlong    Kings Royal Rifles
Gunner James Hardy    Royal Field Artillery
Pte. Ernest Law    10th Yorks & Lancs Regt.
Pte. Alfred James Love    9th Battn Rifle Brigade
Pte. Ernest Albert Love    1st Battn Essex Regt.
Pte. Ernest Ratcliffe    1st Battn Essex Regt.
Pte. Albert Edward Shoat    Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regt.
Pte. William James Stevens    4th Royal Fusiliers
Pte. Walter Stubbings    Royal Army Service Corps
Pte. Samuel Arthur Wade    15th Battn Essex Regt.
Gunner Sidney George Wade    Royal Field Artillery

Qui procul bine
Qui ante diem perierunt
Sed milites sed pro patria



There must have been only one person in the area by the name of St George Swaine Showers.  Revd. Reeve of Stondon Massey wrote: “Nephew of Mr Swaine Chisenhale Marsh of Gaynes Park Epping. He often visited a relative, Mr Cleave, as a lad who for a while rented the Soap-house [Farm].  He was wounded in July 1916, and for some time in the Military Hospital at Chatham.  On Aug 9 1917 he was killed at Bapeausme” [ERO T/P 188/3 f747].  His name also appears on the War Memorial tablet at Doddinghurst.

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