Bosbury Village, Herefordshire
War Memorials







On wooden panels inside the west end the church: 

HERE ARE WRITTEN THE NAMES OF MEN OF BOSBURY WHO
FELL IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN THEIR DEATH WON FREEDOM

1915
ERNEST BALLARD Pte. April 17
ARTHUR JOHN PALMER Pte. May
ALAN BUCHANAN Pte. June 16
GEORGE ROUSE Pte. June 20
HENRY JAMES JONES Pte. Sept 25
MATTHEW THOMPSON Pte. Dec 27

1916
WILLIAM THOMPSON Pte. May 5
WILFRED GIDEON HILL Pte. Aug 24
ARTHUR PREECE Pte. Sept 7
GEOGE THOMAS POWELL Pte. Sept 8

1917
THOMAS HENRY LEWIS Pte. April 6
MICHAEL OCKEY Pte. Sep 26
JAMES GREEN Sergt. Nov. 6
ARCHIBALD FRANK BURWOOD Pte. Dec 7

1918
THOMAS EDWARD ROUSE Pte. March 15
ERNEST HENRY YOUNG Dvr. March 15
WILLIAM HERBERT MORRIS M.M. Pte. Nov 1

1927
FRANCIS EDWARD BOSLEY Pte. Nov. 9

1943
ALFRED GEORGE BALDWIN Pte. March 23

1944
VICTOR WALTER PANTING Gunner Nov. 30
HENRY WAITE Trooper Jany. 21

1944
JACK WALKER L/Bmdr. Nov 29

And this memorial:

IN MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN JOHN HARFORD PITT
SHROPSHIRE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY 1892
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SCOTT’S RAILWAY GUARDS, COLONIAL DEFENCE CORPS
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902
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SOUTH AFRICAN IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE
GERMAN WEST AND EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1917
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DIED OF FEVER WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE
APRIL 16 1917
AGED 45

The plaque on the outside wall of the churchyard:
 
NOT UNTO US O LORD, NOT UNTO US
BUT UNTO THY NAME GIVE THE PRAISE


THIS BRONZE
WAS ERECTED TO THE EVERLASTING HONOUR
OF THE FOLLOWING GOOD AND TRUE MEN
OF THIS PARISH - WHO AT THE CALL OF DUTY,
WILLINGLY SERVED IN H.M. FORCES IN DEFENCE
OF KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914

COLONEL W.B. WOOD-ROE
BAILY A.
BALLARD E.
BEAUMONT H.J.
BEAUMONT J.E.
BERRY C.
BETTINGTON H.
BETTINGTON T.
BRANT H.T.
BREWER J.
BROWN D.E.
BROWN J.A.
BROWN W.T.
BUCHANAN A.
BUCHANAN R.
BUFTON E.
BUFTON F.J.
CHADD E.
CHADNEY E.
DAVIES F.
DAVIS D.
EVANS S.G.
FLETCHER J.A.
GIFFORD J.
GREEN J.
HAYTER G.K.H.
HILL H.
HILL W.
HINKSMAN J.
JOB L.K.V.
JONES A.
JONES C.
JONES F.
JONES G.W.
JONES H.
LANE H.E.
LANE S.
LAYTON G.
LAYTON P.
LEWIS G.E.
MASON A.
MASON T.
MAYO E.
MAYO H.
PALMER A.J.
PETERS A.
POWELL A.E.J.
POWELL G.T.
PULLEN A.
ROUSE G.
ROUSE T.E.
SCRIVENS A.E.
SCRIVENS E.
SCRIVENS F.H.
SHUCK W.D.
SWAITHE W.
THOMPSON D.
THOMPSON W.
TUCK W.
WHEELER W.C.


THE FIRST TO GIVE HIS LIFE WAS ALAN BUCHANAN -
KILLED IN ACTION AT HOOGE JUNE 18TH 1915

A brass plate mounted just beneath this:
 
1939-1945
A.G. BALDWIN
V.W. PANTING
H.WAITE
J.WALKER

And a CWGC headstone in the graveyard:
 
B.G. MORGAN
NAVAL AIRMAN 2ND CLASS, R.N.
FX 81178
HMS ‘DAEDALUS’
30TH JANUARY 1941 AGE 19
FOR OUR TOMORROW
HE GAVE HIS TODAY





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