Mayfield War Memorial

The small village of Mayfield’s war memorial can be found in the church of St.John the Baptist, on Church Lane. The memorial commemorates 28 local men who died in the Great War and a further 6 from the Second World War.

The main inscription reads.

IN

GRATEFUL MEMORY

OF THE

MAYFIELD MEN

WHO FELL IN THE

GREAT WAR

1914 – 1918

MY BODY TO EARTH

MY HEART TO ENGLAND

MY SOUL TO GOD

The men remembered.

JAMES BERESFORD

ARTHUR BIRCH

TIMOTHY BLOOD

JAMES BRADLEY

FREDERICK CROCKER

HERBERT DAVIES

GEORGE HACKETT

JOSEPH HARRISON

HAROLD J HARTILL

JOSEPH HUDSON

WILLIAM T HUDSON

WILFRED JONES

LEONARD LOWNDS

HARRY LEACH

ALBERT H MORETON

ALBERT MELLOR

FREDERICK J MILLWARD

GEORGE MOSS

WILLIAM MOSS

WILLIAM OAKES

JOHN PARKER

FREDERICK SMITH

ARTHUR STONE

THOMAS SWINDELL

JOHN L THOMPSON

J RUSSELL WARDLE

JOHN WILLSHAW

JOSEPH WILLSHAW

and from World War Two.

ALAN C BAVIN

ALFRED BENNETT

ERIC JONES

JOHN W PRIME

CHARLES SKELLERN

CLIFFORD S WAGSTAFF

All photographs by Chris Gleave