Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Window
- District
- Basingstoke
- Town
- Burghclere
- County
- Hampshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Martin Travers (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Before 12th June 1946
Attended by: Field Marshall Lord Montgomery
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40346
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Current location
Window is NTrN
Church of the Ascension
Church Lane
Burghclere
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG20 9HX
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 46976 61031
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Two light memorial window commemorating Captain Richard Elkington. One light has St. George and the other St. Richard of Chichester. Below a kneeling soldier and coats of arms,
- Inscription
- (MEMORIAL TO LIEUT. COLONEL JOHN FORD ELKINGTON D.S.O., KILLED ON 27TH JUNE 1944, AND HIS YOUNGER SON RICHARD) BECAUSE I LIVE / Y SHALL / LIVE ALSO R F / 1930 / 1936 / R G 1936 / 1939 THE LORD / GAVE AND / THE LORD / HATH / TAKEN AWAY / BLESSED BE / THE NAME OF / THE LORD In proud and loving / memory of / Richard Ford Rew Elkington / Capt: The Rifle Brigade / born at Adbury Holt in this / Parish 22.V.1918 / died of would near Bou Atrada / Tunisia 19.I.1943 The Gift of his parents.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Elkington, J. F.
Elkington, Richard Ford Rew
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Window
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stained Glass
- Window
- 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
- Costs
Comments: Gift of his parents
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Stained Glass Windows at Ascension Burghclere, Hampshire www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=10361
- The Sketch - Wednesday 12 June 1946 (picture) F.-M. LORD MONTGOMERY with ELIZABETH and JEAN DES VOEUX after he had unveiled memorials at Burghclere Church to their grandfather, Lt.Col, J. F. E. Elkington, D.S.O., father, Sir Richard des Voeux, Bt., and uncle, Capt. R. F. F. Elkington.
- A brief history of The Church of the Ascension, Burghclere www.ubbnes.org.uk/building/history.htm "In 1943 two lights by Martin Travers one depicting St George and the other St Richard of Chichester were placed in the north wall of the north transept."
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