Market Overton

MARKET OVERTON CHURCH HAS A WAR MEMORIAL WHICH IS A COVERED GATE WAY OVER THE ENTRANCE TO THE GROUNDS AND CHURCH AND IS GRADE II LISTED. THERE ARE TEN NAMES FOR WW1 AND 2 FOR WW 2.

ALSO IN THE CHURCH ARE TWO MORE WAR MEMORIALS ,PLUS AN ORIGNAL CROSS FROM THE GRAVE OF ONE OF THEM BEFORE A CWGC HEADSTONE WAS PUT ON THE GRAVE.




1914-1918

Left hand side

In Memory of the men of this Village who gave their lives for their King and Country in the Great War
Their name liveth for evermore

Right hand side

Off/Std Geo Atkinson
Pte Will H Freeman
Pte John H Orgill
Pte john W Preston
Trpr Martin H Rouse
Pte Tom A Rouse
Pte George A Rouse
Pte Vere E R Whittle
Pte Owen W E Whittle
2nd Lieut V Slanden Wing

BELOW

1939-1945
Leslie Johnson
Albert Marchan


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