Ambergate


 * Ambergate War Memorials** ** St Anne's Church, Derby Road, Ambergate **
 * First World War Memorial **

**INSCRIPTION:** IN LOVING AND HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN & THROUGH THE GREAT WAR QUIS SEPARABIT CARITATE CHRISTI?

1914-1919 @G. ALLEN, PTE. “NO. FUSILIERS” 25/9/15 @H. WALTON, PTE. “2ND YORKS” 25/9/15 @W. H. GLOSSOP, PTE,. “SHERWOODS” 19/12/15 G. H. KIDDY, STAFF SERGT. (WENT DOWN WITH HIS WIFE AND 2 CHILDREN IN S.S. PERSIA) 30/10/15 J. RODGERS, H.M.S. “BLACK PRINCE” 31/12/16 F. RODGERS, PTE. “GRENR. GUARDS” 18/8/16 @P. H. THORPE, H.M.S. “MILNE” 8/9/16 J. MURPHY, PTE. “SHERWOODS” 9/10/16 J. WHITE, PTE. “SHERWOODS” 4/8/17 @J. H. WOOD, PTE. “LANC. FUSILIERS” 16/8/17 E. BODEN, RFL’MAN “K.R.R.” 18/8/17 @E.A. GIBSON, PTE. 6TH “LDON REGT.” 22/9/17 @N. B. JACKSON, LIEUT. “SHERWOODS” 6/12/17 W. E. ELSE, CAPT. “SHERWOODS” 3/1/18 A. C. HINTON, PTE. “SHERWOODS” 8/2/18 H. BODEN, PTE. “SHERWOODS” 21/3/18 F. REED, SERGT. “SHERWOODS” 24/4/18 C. WAIN, DVR. “R.F.A.” 8/8/18 A. RODGERS, DVR, “R.F.A.” 20/10/18 F. A. HALL, L’CORP. “L. BATT” 27/11/18 @H. BLACKHAM, DVR. “R.F.A.” 12/3/19 R.I.P ** Second World War Window and Tablet **

**INSCRIPTION:** IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945

@STEPHEN BOWMER BRIAN CHISNELL @HARRY COOPER GEORGE HAYWOOD @FREDERICK HALL @ALBERT JACKSON @DEREK POUNDALL CECIL RAY JOSEPH SMITH @J. CYRIL WOOLLEY @COLIN WADE WALTER YATES R.I.P ** Post Second World War Memorial **

**INSCRIPTION:** REMEMBER BEFORE GOD @GEOFFREY ALLEN WHO FELL IN THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 ** Marble Angel ** The marble angel sculpture in the church was made by a Belgian refugee, who was living in Ambergate, with the intention of taking it back to his village church after the First World War. However, as the church in his village had been destroyed, he left the sculpture in Ambergate.



Sources used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website (www.cwgc.org.uk) Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 CD ROM - Naval & Military Press Sailors Died in the Great War DVD ROM - Naval & Military Press Soldiers Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 CD ROM - Naval & Military Press British Newspaper Archive Armed Forces Memorial Roll of Honour The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-ROM – Naval & Military Press Ancestry All photographs copyright of Chris Preston, unless otherwise stated