When the villagers of Wymeswold, in Leicestershire, decided how to remember their war dead they chose the practical option of a Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1924. Lists of the fallen were maintained in the two churches in the village. The parish church housed a printed roll of honour, with thirty names, whilst the Wesleyan congregation erected the monument illustrated here, which has twenty-eight names.
A recent Heritage Lottery funded project gives full details of all the men, which may be found at http://www.bringingthemhome.co.uk/
This work shows that all the men listed in the Wesleyan chapel have strong connections with the village, whereas the further two listed on the parish roll of honour had relations in Wymeswold.
Ivor F. Perry is currently conducting further research into the religious affiliations of the men.
The men commemorated in the Wesleyan chapel are:
James Collington
George Spicer
David Spicer
Alfred Savage
William R. Sissins
George Williams
Bramford Sparrow
Colin Bramall
John Edward Clarke
John Lamb
Ernest W. Hubbard
Albert Bacon
John Edward Spicer
John W. Collington
George H. Marriott
Frederick H. Robinson
John Morris
Horace George Giles
John Wilfred Brooke
Robert Jalland
Thomas Clarke
Walter Charles Smith
James Fermer Fletcher
John Robert Ovendale
William Wilson
Walter Foster Simpson
Jesse Mills
Eric Evans
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