29th Division (Gallipoli)

• First World War (1914-1918)
  Total names on memorial: 0
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 0
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• Chapel
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• Board
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  Materials: Wood - Oak
• Panelling
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  Materials: Wood - Oak
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Comments: When the memorial was dedicated on 25/4/1917, a commemorative Service was instituted at the Church to perpetuate the Gallipoli Landing that had taken place on 24/4/1915.

• The Holy Trinity Church website has the following information about the Gallipoli Chapel: "Gallipoli chapel The chapel on the south side of the Chancel, originally dedicated to St Agnes, is now better known as the Gallipoli Chapel; the connection between Holy Trinity Church and the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-1916 lies chiefly in the personality of the vicar of the parish at that time, the Revd Henry Hall. Henry Hall had already had a distinguished academic and educational career when he arrived in Eltham in 1907; he had been an Exhibitioner at St John’s College, Cambridge, and Headmaster of Reigate and Totnes Grammar Schools. He remained Vicar of Holy Trinity until his death in 1942. Soon after arriving in Eltham he was appointed a Chaplain to the Territorials, and he volunteered to leave his parish temporarily to become Chaplain to the British Army’s 29th Division while they were preparing for active duty abroad. He went with them when they were posted to the Middle East and accompanied them on 25th April 1915 when they landed on the West Beach at Gallipoli. Like many chaplains in the Great War, Henry Hall showed great courage; he stayed with his men, celebrating Holy Communion for them in the midst of the battle, for which he was mentioned in dispatches. During this tour of duty he was invalided to Alexandria in July and demobilised the following April. Shortly after his return to Eltham, and because he was so moved by the experience in the Dardanelles that was to haunt him throughout his life, Henry Hall resolved to set up a memorial to the men of the 29th Division who did not return to Britain. The relatively new St Agnes Chapel at Holy Trinity provided an appropriate setting; thus it was transformed into the Gallipoli Memorial Chapel, dedicated as a permanent memorial to the 29th Division and unveiled as such by General Sir Ian Hamilton on 25th April 1917. The original St Agnes Chapel had been funded in1909 by Mrs Edith Gertrude Latter, resident of Southend Hall (the site now occupied by Inca Drive), in memory of her sister. Two of the windows on the south side also commemorate an older sister of Mr Latter and an aunt of Mrs Latter. These show the Virgin and Child surrounded by angels and the Holy Family’s Flight into Egypt. The central window on that side tells the story of St Martin of Tours. Look out for a small tower within the wheatsheaf logo; this indicates that these windows were manufactured by the firm of C.E. Kempe and Co. which by then was under the chairmanship of Kempe’s cousin, Walter Tower. Working with the firm of Sir Arthur Blomfield & Sons, C E Kempe & Co were responsible for all the original decoration of the St Agnes Chapel as well as many other embellishments throughout the church over the next few years. The chapel’s East Window is by Tom Carter Shapland and is a 1957 replacement of the earlier Kempe window, destroyed in 1944. In the centre is Christ in Glory. On the left is St Agnes, to whom the chapel was originally dedicated, and beyond her is the Baptism of Christ, surmounted by the symbols of SS Matthew and Mark. To the right of Christ in Glory is his Mother, and beyond her the Last Supper, surmounted by the symbols of SS Luke and John". www.ht-eltham.org.uk/about/gallipoli-chapel/
• Geograph: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3766819 -accessed 23 December 2021
• On 4/9/2009 the following article was published on www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/4579435.eltham-church-launches-appeal-on-anniversary/ "Eltham. Church launches appeal on anniversary. A CHURCH celebrating its 140th anniversary has appealed for funds to restore its memorial chapel. An anniversary service was held at Holy Trinity Church, Southend Lane, Eltham, on August 29. The Very Reverend Jeffrey John, a former vicar of the church, preached and an appeal was launched for the restoration of the Gallipoli Chapel. Aiming to raise more than £60,000 to restore the memorials and fabric of the chapel, the appeal has already got £1,500. The chapel was created in 1917 as a memorial to those who fell in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and has held memorials for soldiers who have lost their lives in more recent conflicts such as Afghanistan. Parish priest Father Brett Ward said: “Its restoration will enable this unique memorial to continue to be a place of welcome to the many visitors who find their way here.” For more information call the parish office on 020 8859 6274".
• Historic England's record of Holy Trinity Church can be found at historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1211995 . It includes the following comment: "HISTORY: The church was built in two main phases, the first by the great Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street (1824-81), the second at the start of the C20 by Sir Arthur Blomfield and Sons. The Street phase was consecrated on 30 August 1869 and had been built at a cost of £4,708. The S chapel was created as the St Agnes Chapel but after the First World War, the then rector, the Rev. Henry Hall, who had been chaplain to the 29th British Infantry Division at Gallipoli, converted it into the Gallipoli chapel and brought in Kempe and Co to carry out the decorative work required".
• On 25/11/1921 the Rugby Advertiser published the following report regarding the existence of the Gallipoli Memorial at Eltham, in connection with a fund that had been raised to endow a trust for an annual memorial service to be held each 25th April, in perpetuity: "THE 29th DIVISION. A CHURCH MEMORIAL. A beautiful memorial to the 29th Division, consisting of an exquisitely carved oak reredos and side panelling, together with a figure of St. George, and a carved oak altar frontal case with “linen fold” panels, has been placed in the Church of Holy Trinity, Eltham, S.E., the Vicar of which, the Rev. H. A. Hall, acted as Chaplain to the Division. A full list of the units which constituted the Division in the Gallipoli days is carved on a panel on the south wall, as also is the following inscription : Remember ye those of the 29th Division who fought and those who fell in Gallipoli in the service of their King and Country, to whose ever honoured memory the reredos and panelling on the east wall of this Chapel have been set up, and a commemoration service instituted to perpetuate the 25th April, 1915. Of your charity remember also in your prayers Henry Arthur Hall, Vicar of this parish, who acted as Chaplain to the 29th Division and returned in safety. Laus Deo." A fund has also been raised to endow a trust under which an annual memorial service, each 25th April in perpetuity, shall be held in the Chapel in which the memorial has been placed. Should there occur two years in succession in which the service is omitted, the trust money will be given to St. Paul’s Cathedral for the upkeep of military monuments". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001934/19211125/036/0002 (NB Although the article gives the impression that the Gallipoli Memorial at Eltham has only recently been erected, the Chapel and contents that it referred to had been unveiled/dedicated in Eltham in April 1917).
• The Daily Record's account on 26/4/1917 of the unveiling/dedication included the following comment from General Sir Ian Hamilton's speech: "In conclusion. Sir Ian Hamilton thanked the Vicar of Holy Trinity, the Rev Henry A. Hale - who was the chaplain to the division on the landing in Gallipoli - for the efforts he had made to raise a memorial to the glorious deeds of the last division of our old voluntary service". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000728/19170426/093/0006#
• On 26/4/1917 the Liverpool Daily Post printed a lengthy account of the unveiling/dedication of the memorial, which began: "THE GALLIPOLI HEROES, SIR IAN HAMILTON’S ELOQUENT TRIBUTE. In the picturesque little church of Holy Trinity, Eltham, one of the most impressive services held since the war commenced to take toll of the brave was conducted, yesterday, by Bishop Montgomery, on the occasion of the unveiling by General Sir Ian Hamilton of a memorial to those members of the 29th Division who fell during the Gallipoli campaign, 1915-16. The memorial bears the following inscription:-- Remember ye those of the 29th Division who fought and those who fell in Gallipoli in the service of the King and country, to whose ever-honoured memory the reredos and panelling on the east wall of this chapel have been set up and a commemorative service instituted to perpetuate the 25th day of April, 1915. Of your charity remember also in your prayers Henry Arthur Hall, vicar of this parish, who acted as chaplain to the 29th Division and returned in safety.” www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000649/19170426/119/0007
• A report of the unveiling appeared in the Daily Mirror on 26/4/1917 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19170426/008/0002