Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Aylesbury Vale
- Town
- Chilton
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- E Burton (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 22 August 1922
Attended by: General Sir Robert Fanshawe KCB DSO - Dedicated
Date: 22 August 1922
Attended by: Bishop of Oxford - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 7981
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Current location
St Marys Church
Church Rd
Chilton
Aylesbury Vale
Buckinghamshire
HP20 2JJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 81714 13916
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Alabaster tablet with a pale green marble frame surmounted by a figure of St George.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE/ MEN OF CHILTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (Names)/ AND IN HONOUR OF ALL THOSE/ WHO DID THEIR DUTY
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ambrose, Herbert G
Cadle, Joseph
Cheeseman, Alfred
Cheesman, Stanley J
Edwards, David
Edwards, Ernest
Edwards, William
Egerton, Arthur G E
Egerton, Louis E
Jeacock, William J
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname
Order of information: Rank, alphabetically
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Green - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Alabaster
- Frame
- Listing information
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
- Grade I
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- St Marys Church
- Reference
- Bucks Herald, 2 September 1922
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