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Week St.
Mary
NORTH CORNWALL, UK
50° 45'03.84"N
4° 30'01.39"W
Elevation: 142m OS: SX237977
CALOR VILLAGE OF THE YEAR
County Winner
2009

| War Memorial |
The first meeting of Week St.
Mary’s War Memorial Committee took place on the 28th of
April 1919. By June the 25th 1919 a sum of £109 had been
raised by public subscription and the granite cross had
been ordered. On October 27th the decision to prepare
the site was taken and materials were ordered for the
foundations. Further moneys were raised by a public tea;
Price 1/- (one shilling), followed by a magic lantern
show on Palestine; Admission 6d (sixpence).
The war memorial was unveiled by Sir George Croydon
Marks MP for the Launceston Division on Saturday 6th of
December 1919 (Parliamentary divisions have been
reorganised and renamed several times since). Prayers
were lead by the rector, Rev. Charles Thomas Witmell; a
lesson was read by Rev.T Rud and followed by a hymn. A
tea followed in the Council School to which all service
men had free invitations. After the tea Sir George gave
a lecture on the League of Nations to a crowded
audience. |

Notice no railings or posts around
the Memorial,
dating this photograph between 1968 and 1970
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At that time the fund contained a total of
£134/11/6 (£134 pounds, 11 shillings and 6 pence). The memorial
cross was supplied by The Bodmin Granite Company Ltd, and
invoiced on the 9th of December 1919 for £123/10/4 (£123 pounds,
10 shillings and 4 pence).
In October 1946 the balance of the “Victory Day Celebrations”
£15/6/3 was passed on to the 1939-45 War Memorial Fund. In April
1947, £7 was spent on cleaning and painting the memorial and in
May 1948 £8/5/0 was spent having the names of the fallen added
to the memorial.
At some time after the initial erection of the war memorial the
maintenance and upkeep was taken on by the Week St. Mary Branch
of the Royal British Legion and this they did until the
nineteen-sixties. By this time the railings had deteriorated and
in November 1964 the Week St. Mary Branch of the Royal British
Legion wrote to the Parish Council to say that they were no
longer able to be responsible for the memorial.In November 1967
responsibility of the War Memorial had been taken on by the
Parish Council. Week St. Mary Royal British Legion passed the
money in the war memorial fund onto the parish council. In
February 1968 the old railings were removed at a cost of £5 less
£1/15/0 for the scrap value of the old railings. In March 1970,
£50 had been raised towards the new posts and chains which cost
£55/9/0 to install. |
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Those who gave their lives are
remembered annually on Remembrance Sunday when the
brief, but poignant service, concludes with the laying
of a wreath and the sounding of the Last Post.
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WORLD WAR I
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• Private Ernest James HIGGINS
(Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 18/09/1917 - Aged: 19 - Son of William and Susanna
Higgins, of Week St. Mary.
• Private W. J. COLES
(Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 23/05/1919 - Age unknown
• Private John KINSMAN
(Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 2/10/1916 - Aged: 19 - Son of Richard and Mary
Kinsman, of Kitleigh, Week St. Mary.
• Private Sidney LAWRENCE (Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 10/09/1914 - Age unknown
• Lance Corporal Hartley Owen ORCHARD
(Military Police)
Died: 21/11/1918 - Aged: 21 - Son of Thomas and Mary Ann
Orchard, of Carey House, Week St. Mary.
• Sapper George Frederick Wright REED
(Royal Engineers)
Died: 1/12/1915 - Aged: 36 - Husband of Alice Moyse
Reed, of Week Green, Week St. Mary.
• Private James ROGERS
(Devonshire
Regiment)
Died: 4/11/1917 - Aged: 21 - Son of John and Mary Mason
Rogers, of Week St. Mary.
• Private William John COLES (Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 18/09/1918 - Aged: 23 - Son of John and Emily
Coles of Parsonage Green, Week St. Mary.
WORLD WAR II
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• Private Wilfred Richard Pengelly ROWLAND
(Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Died: 30/11/1943 - Aged: 21 - Son of Albert and Hilda
Rowland, of Week St. Mary.
• Sergeant Eustace Henry ORCHARD
(Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Died: 15/03/1944 - Aged: 23 - Husband of Doris Mary
Orchard, of Week St. Mary. |

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on the War dead, search the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
website
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Royal British Legion
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SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and
Families Association) |
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