Warlingham

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Reference WMO/121590

Address:

The Green

Limpsfield Road

Warlingham

CR6 9NA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Stone sculpture of serviceman with woman and child at his feet on square plinth and three-stepped square plinth.The memorial is located on The Green facing north. The memorial is Grade II listed. Sixty names inscribed on two sides of the plinth Warlingham Green War Memorial - Brief History At the end of WWI, many cities, towns, and villages, set up committees to oversee the construction and funding of War Memorials to remember those from their locality who had perished in the Great War. Warlingham was no exception and the Committee was set up in January 1919, comprising of elected representatives from the Church, Parish Council, Trading and Farming communities. Three designs were considered, the successful one chosen was by J E Taylerson and entitled ”Shielding the Defenceless”, now the funds had to be raised. By the end of the year £250 had been collected locally, and the required target was to be a little more than £500. In advance of the work being carried out, during January 1920 the colours of the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, were paraded with 200 troops for the last time prior to being laid up in the church as the Battalion had been disbanded. On the same occasion the Battalion presented to the village, a Field Gun, which they had capture at the battle of Cambrai. This gun was place on the Green on a platform immediately behind where the stone seat is located. By 1921 all monies required had been raised and on 4th December the Memorial was unveiled at a lengthy service of dedication, well attended, and supported by the Warlingham Brass Band, Choirs, Buglers, Scouts and Guides. During WW I, and prior there had been a tradition of Services held on the Green, but now with a new War Memorial there was a focus to these Remembrance Day events. The Memorial was created with four panels, two of which list the names of 60 men from Warlingham, who perished during the War; reading the names now one is reminded of the families that played a key part in our village at that time. At the end of WW2, an additional tablet was added to the Memorial, however without individual names of those from Warlingham who gave their lives in that conflict. A further tablet was added to commemorate all those who made the supreme sacrifice in all conflicts since 1945, again without any individual names. (With thanks to The Bourne Society’s excellent publication – Village Histories: No. 4 Warlingham 1999)
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Lest we forget 1914-1918 Erected as a grateful tribute to the men of Warlingham who served in the Great War This tablet was added in grateful memory of those who fell in the second World War

FIRST WORLD WAR ~ 1914/1918 North Side Tablet (As Carved) Wilfred Ash Alfred Ansell Thomas Baker Ernest Barnes Thomas Beagley James Best Walter Blanchard Derek Broughall Francis Brown Albert Burchell Bertram Cooper George Cox William Darbin Charles Elmes Arthur Frost George Gatland Arthur Hankins John Herbert Geoffrey Hewett George Hingston Walter Hoad Frith Horner Ronald Kirk Hubert Kiver Charles Lee Albert Leppard James Lidbetter Keith Lockie Ernest Long Claude Mackness FIRST WORLD WAR ~ 1914/1918 South Side Tablet (As Carved) John Mills William Mustchin Albert Patten Thomas Payne John Peckett Robert Peckett Edward Penny Thomas Penny Thomas Pepper Albert Pepper Frederick Peters Reginald Porter Robert Pritchard Stuart Pulford Arnold Russell Arthur Sales Harold Sales William Sales John Sheenhy William Slogrove William Smith Charles Stock Edward Street Leonard Tamplin Henry Tappenden Edward Terry John Tuzo Edward Underhill Charles Walker Andrew Warrender

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Grade II (England)

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