Lelant – St. Uny Churchyard

Inside the church,…

…and on removing the flowers (previous shot – yes, I put them back), this window reveals itself to be a memorial to those killed during the Second World War, the names of the deceased at the bottom.

Another window requiring a closer look, no flower removal required.

This too is a war memorial, this time remembering the dead of the Great War,…

…seven names engraved on the two outer windows.

Beneath the figure of Christ in the centre of the reredos…

…if this is indeed a reredos,…

…the name of Captain J. Hanbury Chads, and the date 1916.  The Chads were a naval family, but I know nowt about this particular one.

Great War Roll listing all those who served (above & below),…

A third window, although not war-related, has a tale to tell.

The inscription says ‘In loving memory of our son Harry Sparks who died at sea after the wreck of S.S. Trevessa 25th June 1923’.  Note the word ‘after’.  The Wreck Report for the Trevessa was issued after a series of meetings in Mauritius, in December 1923, and the reason for this was the arrival there, in July 1923, of two open lifeboats that had spent more than three weeks at sea following the foundering of the Trevessa some 1,728 miles away across the Indian Ocean!  Thirty four of the forty four crewmen would survive the journey, but sadly apprentice Harry Sparks was one who did not.

Outside in the churchyard, conformists,…

…and non-conformists.  Now you & I know that there’s a war grave over there,…

…but for those less familiar with such things, there’s a handy stick bearing a red cross at the top marking the grave.

 

Ooh look!  Another stick,…

…another faded red cross,…

…and another grave, this time Second World War.  Richard John Harold Mudge was a second lieutenant in an anti-aircraft battalion of the Royal Artillery who was killed in action on 30th June 1940, aged 20.  I think the serving men and women who were killed in action on the Home Front during World War II are probably underrepresented when it comes to commemoration.

Grave of a decorated Great War survivor – again marked by a red cross.

It’s a brilliant idea, and makes the job of cemetery-searching a breeze.

Another one,…

…again Second World War,…

…and one final headstone, on the right here (would I have spotted this one without the red cross marker, I wonder?)…

…that includes a commemoration to twenty one year old Rifleman James Matthew Trewhella, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915, and is remembered on the Loos Memorial.