BERKSHIRE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT FORUM

Berkshire War Memorials Project

WEST BERKSHIRE - SPEEN

Speen Parish includes Bagnor, Benham, Marsh Benham and Stockcross.

The Parish Council has a website

Also see the parish entry in wikipedia

Monument at Junction of A4 and Speen Lane

WW1 - 19 names

WW2 - 6 names

St John's Church Stockcross

WW1 - 33 names on slate tablet

WW2 - 3 names on slate tablet

Names recorded by Alan Hutchins Nov 1997

BWM4046 26/5/2011

Speen	Junction A4 & Speen Lane	Brick & stone cross	WB032
Speen	St Mary the Virgin	Family gravestone, CWGC (Lipscombe)	WB165
Speen	St Mary the Virgin	CWGC Marker (Philbey)	WB166
Speen	St Mary the Virgin	Family gravestone, CWGC (Stuart)	WB167
Speen	St Mary the Virgin	Brass plaque in church	WB168
Speen	St Mary the Virgin	Stone tablet in church	WB169

Speen

ID:	WB032
UKNIWM:	9094
Location:	Junction A4 & Speen Lane
OS Map Ref:	SU454682
Description:	Brick & stone cross

Text:
To the glory of God & in memory of the
Parishioners of Speen who gave their lives in
The Great War 1914-1918
George Lechmere Anson
James Edwin Blatch
John Douglas Bowley
Frederick George Coburn
William Collins
Bertie Stuart Cox
Edward Thomas Crocker
Charles Freeman Goddard
Harry Goddard
John Lionel Heath
Albert Hillyer
Isaac Frank Minchin
Henry John Radbourn
Christopher William Seymour
Joe Seymour
Montague Ernest Squirl
Edward Cornelius Thick
William Charles Thick
Edward Watts


1939-1945
Kenneth Denness
Mervyn Atchison Foster
Edward James Freestone
Tony James Hitchcock
Rupert Edward Mills
Ronald Leonard Philbey

Speen

ID:	WB165
UKNIWM:
Location:	St Mary the Virgin
OS Map Ref:	SU455678
Description:	Family gravestone, CWGC (Lipscombe)

Text:
Per ardua ad astra / In loving memory of / FO Edwin John Lipscomb / RAFVR / Died Feb 10th 1944 / Aged 22 years

Speen

ID:	WB166
UKNIWM:
Location:	St Mary the Virgin
OS Map Ref:	SU455678
Description:	CWGC Marker (Philbey)

Text:
1384976 Sergeant / R L Philbey / Pilot /Royal Air Force / 19th October1942

Speen

ID:	WB167
UKNIWM:
Location:	St Mary the Virgin
OS Map Ref:	SU455678
Description:	Family gravestone, CWGC (Stuart)

Text:
RIP / In loving memory of / Geoffrey Claude / Edwards Stuart / and his beloved wife / Isobel Frances Mary . Died April 13th 1944

Speen

ID:	WB168
UKNIWM:
Location:	St Mary the Virgin
OS Map Ref:	SU455678
Description:	Brass plaque in church

Text:
To the Glory of God / and in memory of / General Augustus Henry Ternan / Bengal Staff Corps. / Born 18th Sept 1817 – Died 23rd Decr 1893 / and of his two sons . Lieut Arthur O R Breffney Ternan / Royal Navy. / Born 2nd July 1849. / Lost in Her Majesty’s Ship “Captain”. / and / Captain and Brevet Lt Colonel / Alexander Gore Breffney Trenan / Comdg 42nd Goorka Light Infantry. / Born 23rd May 1855 – Died 11th Aug 1893.

Speen

ID:	WB169
UKNIWM:
Location:	St Mary the Virgin
OS Map Ref:	SU455678
Description:	Stone tablet in church

Text:
In Memoriam / Lieut, Colonel Charles Case, / Bengal Staff Corps, / Deputy Commissary General, / Eldest Son of Thomas Case, Esq. / of Red Hazels Lancashire, / who died at Murree in the Punjab, / on the 16th Septr 1882; / aged 43 years. / Throughly Intelligent, Efficient, & Conscientious, as / an Officer to whom Duty was His first Consideration, / in Private Life he was the Good Affectionate Husband, / Father, Son, Brother, a true Accomplished Gentlemen, & / Staunch Friend. // This Tablet is Erected to his Beloved Memory / by his Sorrowing Widow, Children, Parents & Brothers // “As thy days, so shall thy strength be” / Deut XXXIII.25v