Alton War Memorial

The memorial can be found in the corner of the churchyard extension on High Street. It commemorates 34 local men who died during to two world wars, 27 from the first and 7 from the second. The names of the fallen are inscribed on a wall to the side of the cross.

The inscription on the cross reads.

GIVE THANKS TO GOD

AND KEEP EVER IN MIND THE LOYAL SELF SACRIFICE

OF THE MEN OF ALTON WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES

IN DEFENCE OF RIGHT IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

1939 - 1945

The inscription on the wall reads.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

MEN OF ALTON BRADLEY AND FARLEY WHO DIED IN THE TWO WORLD WARS

[Names]

THEY SHALL GROW NOT 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

The names of the fallen.

1914-1918

JOHN HUGO BILL

HERBERT BILLINGS

BERNARD BROWN

VINCENT BYATT

THOMAS CRITCHLOW

JAMES GIBSON

CHARLES HALL

WILLIAM HARRISON

JOHN HOLLINS

ARTHUR HURST

VISCOUNT INGESTRE

JOSEPH JOHNSON

SAMUEL JOHNSON

GEORGE KEELING

ARTHUR KIDD

ROBSON McKEAND

THOMAS MELLOR

THOMAS MILLWARD

JOHN MILLWARD

JAMES PATTINSON

GEORGE POWELL

ERNEST JAMES QUADLING

JOSEPH RICHARDSON

BERTRAM ROWLINSON

JAMES SALT

GEORGE SMITH

THOMAS SWINSON

GEORGE TAYLOR

JOHN TITTERTON

ERNEST UPTON

HORACE WALKER

WILLIAM WILLIAMSON

1939 - 1945

PATRICK BARRETT

WALTER KEELING

WILLIAM LEE

FRANK PRICE

GEORGE ROWLINSON

ARTHUR TURNER

WALTER WATTS

RALPH WHYLOCK

FRANK WILSON

All photographs by Chris Gleave.