Exton Village

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Reference WMO/217857

Address:

Oakham Road

The Green

Exton

near Oakham

Rutland

LE15 8AX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial consists of a stone tablet on the wall surrounding a small plot of land opposite the village green. The larger memorial in the plot is dedicated to members of the wider Noel family (Earls of Gainsborough) who live at Exton Hall. Remembered here is the first VC winner of the Great War, Lieutenant Maurice Dease, a Royal Fusilier. He was killed defending a bridge on the edge of Mons as the British. The cross and plaque are collectively Grade II listed.
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IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 / Tablet : + EXTON + (15 NAMES) / + WHITWELL + / (4 NAMES) / + MAY THEY REST IN PEACE Cross: In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ / Amen / Charles 3rd Earl of Gainsborough / and Mary his wife set up this cross / and the tablet nearby in memory of / their beloved son Robert, their nephews / Roger and Maurice and others their / friends and neighbours in Exton / and Whitwell who died for King and / Country in the Great War 1914-1918 / On whose souls sweet Jesus have mercy. .

Plaque/Exton - Edward Bottomley Sergt. 5th Leic.R., Thomas Bottomley Lce. Cpl. 6th Leic.R., Joseph Bryan Rfn. Rifle Bde., William Bullimore Pte. 4th Leic.R., Frederick Bullimore Dvr. R.A.S.C., Richard Ed. Corner Pte. 1/5th Leic.R., Cyril Dalby Pte. 1/5th Devon.R., William Grant Tpr. 20th Hussars, Alfred B. Halliday Pte. 5th Leic.R., Percy Higgins Dvr. B.R.C.S., The Hon. Robert E.T.M. Noel Capt. R. Fus., William Rudkin Sgt. 2/5th Leic.R., Joseph Sullivan Pte. 2/6th Sherwood Foresters, Alfred Tyler Pte. 2/6th Sherwood Foresters, Joseph C. Young Pte. Bedford R. Plaque/Whitwell - Thomas Ed. Healey Pte. 5th Leic.R., William H. Lloyd Cpl. Gren. Gds., George R. Stanton Pte. 2/5th Linc.R., H.C. Springthorpe Lce. Cpl. 2nd Linc.R. Cross - Tom Cecil Noel M.C. and Bar Lieut. Royal Air Force, son of Gerald Cecil Noel of Cottesmore. Reported missing at Westroozebeke, Flanders in the Great War Aug. 22nd. 1918. Maurice James Dease V.C. Lieut. Royal Fusiliers Aged 24, Mons 23rd. Aug. 1914. Roger Charles Noel Bellingham Lieut. Royal Field Artillery Aged 31, Ypres 4th March 1915. Hon'ble Robert E.T.M. Noel Capt. Nigerian Army Aged 29, Masasi, East Africa, 2nd Feb. 1918.

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