Lieutenant Thomas Scholes Creswell and Lance Corporal John Lancashire Creswell


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Reference WMO/291107

Address:

St John the Baptist Church

Spencer Hill

Wimbledon

SW19 4NZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Other
About the memorial: Brass plaque (see comment below about the inscription)
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ ON LOVING MEMORY OF/ THOMAS SCHOLES CRESWELL/ LIEUT. ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. FLYING OFFICER R.F.C. (NAVAL WING)/ SECOND SON OF FRANK STENHOUSE CRESWELL AND EMILY HIS FIRST WIFE/ OF CRUMPSALL, WIMBLEDON WHO WAS DROWNED IN THE EXECUTION OF/ HIS DUTY WHILE PILOTING SEAPLANE NO. 128 AT CALSHOT, THE FIRST/ FATAL ACCIDENT TO A NAVAL SEAPLANE./ A GALLANT OFFICER AND FEARLESS AVIATOR. A BRAVE COMRADE, A TRUE FRIEND. HE LOVED HIS COUNTRY. HIS MODEST AND UNASSUMING PERSONALITY/ GAINED THE LOVE AND RESPECT OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM./ BORN 1ST FEBRUARY 1887. DIED 4TH JUNE 1914./ BURIED AT HASLAR/ "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE"./ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING FATHER NEAR THE SPOT/ IN THIS CHURCH WHERE HE WAS BAPTISED AND WHERE HE WAS WONT/ TO WORSHIP FROM BOYHOOD.// ALSO/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOHN LANCASHIRE CRESWELL/ LCE. CPL. HONBLE ARTILLERY COY./ FOURTH SON OF FRANK AND EMILY CRESWELL/ WHO DIED AT COLINCAMPS ON APRIL 3RD. 1917 OF WOUNDS RECEIVED/ APRIL 1ST. IN AN ATTACK ON AN OUTPOST AT ECOUST ST. MEIN/ NEAR CROISILLES, FRANCE. PREVENTED BY DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT/ FROM OBTAINING A COMMISSION HE ENLISTED IN THE H.A.C. IN/ JANUARY 1916. HE WENT WITH THE 2ND. BATN. TO FRANCE ON/ OCTOBER 3RD 1916 AND WAS IN THE FIGHTING AT ARMENTIERES AND/ ON THE SOMME AND ANGRE RIVERS./ AN UNSELFISH AND DEVOTED SON AND BROTHER, HIS BRIGHT AND/ GENTLE NATURE WON HIM THE RESPECT AND LOVE OF HIS COMRADES./ BORN 21ST. DECEMBER 1892. DIED 3RD APRIL 1917./ BURIED AT THE MILITARY CEMETERY COLINCAMPS, 6 MILES NORTH/ OF ALBERT, FRANCE./ “WHETHER THEY LIVE OR DIE, THEY CHOSE THE BEST/ THEY SPRANG TO DUTY’S CALL, THEY STOOD THE TEST ”/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS FATHER AND SURVIVING BROTHERS

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