
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Sculptured / Cast group
- District
- Mole Valley
- Town
- Headley
- County
- Surrey
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 26th September 1920
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 23395
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Current location
St Mary’s Church
Church Approach
Headley
Mole Valley
Surrey
KT18 6LD
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 20501 54799
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Two bronze figures of soldiers leaning on reversed rifles with WW1 names on rectangular tablet in between. WW2 names on tablet below. Note that stolen in 1997 but not been able to confirm this.
- Inscription
- 1914 (unreadable or a carving) 1918 Upper tablet: FOR GOD KING AND / COUNTRY / (Eleven WW1 names) Middle tablet: THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE Lower tablet: 1939 / Three WW2 names / 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Collins, William
Cordock, Frederick
Dibble, William Robert
Hankins, Thomas William
Hawkins, Harold
Lintern, Henry Joseph
Parsons, John
Payne, Edward
Rooke, Leonard
Ryder, Robert N D
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 3
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Memorial
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Headley WW1 and WW2 Memorial
- WMO ID: 185573
- Condition: Good [last updated on 15-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 1997: Stolen from the church.
- Costs
Comments: Public subscription raised enough money for War Memorial tablet and street War Memorial with enough surplus to establish a Hospital Car Fund.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Historic England historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1378152?section=official-list-entry Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1378152 Date first listed: 29-Sep-1987 Statutory Address 1: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
- Headley War Memorial www.headley-village.com/index.php/warmemorial
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