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Waingroves

The memorial to the fallen of Waingroves Methodist Chapel, in the village of Waingroves in east Derbyshire, stands on the corner opposite the new red brick Methodist church in Waingroves Road. It is a stone Celtic cross on a two-stepped plinth, on a base with a brick edge. A down-pointing sword is carved in relief on the cross and a flowerbed surrounds the memorial. There is an inscription on the base of the shaft, a World War I dedication and list of names on the higher plinth, and a World War II dedication and list of names on the lower plinth. The inscriptions are all picked out in gold lettering and the texts on the plinths are on tablets of inserted stone.

In June 2001 War Memorials Trust gave a grant of £50 towards the cost of a new base for the memorial which was being relocated from its place outside the old Waingroves Methodist Chapel, as the congregation was moving to the new church.

The inscriptions on the memorial read:

"By their 
sacrifice 
we live.

Erected by the inhabitants of the
Waingroves ward to the memory of the
following who fell in the Great War
1914 – 1918 
George Whyld. Herbert Bamford. 
Arthur Stapleton. Charles E. Barker. 
Charles Allsop. Jim Palfreman. 
George Shawcrost. Tom Allsop. 
Thomas Short. William Woollins. 
Arthur Lomas. Charles Marchant. 
Thomas Radace.

Also in memory of those who fell in the war
1939 – 1945 
Leslie Burgin Albert E. Todd 
Norman Brearley Robert W. Vincent 
F. W. Maurice V. Fowler Charles Waterall 
John Charles F. Keatinge
'For freedom they died'

Drummer T. M. Wright 
Afghanistan 2007"

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM502
UK National Inventory of War Memorials:

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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