Kibworth War Memorials

The Memorial at St Wilfrid’s Church dedicated to those men of the villages of Kibworth Harcourt and Kibworth Beauchamp, who gave their lives fighting in the two World Wars, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them”.

 

“To the glory of God and in grateful memory of brave men of Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt who fell in the great war 1914-1918”

Adams, Archie (Lance Corporal)
Atkinson, Frederick George (Private)
Bolton, Edward Johnson (Gunner)
Bromley, Cecil Walter (Lance Corporal)
Bromley, Percival Arthur (Sergeant)
Brutnell, Tom (Private)
Butteriss, Ralph (Lance Corporal)
Coleman, Charles (Private)
Cooke, William Lewis (Private)
Copeland, Austin Frederick (Private)
Day, Robert (Gunner)
Dunkley, George Ernest (Private)
Eade, James Alfred (Private)
Fisher, Charles (Gunner)
Fisher, William Woolman (Lance-Corporal)
Freer, Arthur B (Sergeant)
French, Maurice (Corporal)
Garrett, George (Sapper)
Grant, Alan (2nd-Lieutenant)
Holmes, William (Private)
Holyoak, John Harry (Signaller)
Holyoak, Thomas Alfred (Private)
Hunt, Stephen H (Private)
Linnett, Frank (Private)
Mawby, Percy Searson (Private)
Peberdy, James (Sergeant)
Pell, Bertie (Private)
Quincey, Sydney Ward (Quartermaster Serjeant)
Smalley, Arthur (Corporal)
Smalley, John (Private)
Smith, William Frank (Private)
Speke, Arthur J (Private)
Sturgess, Leonard (Private)
Swetenham, Foster (Major)
Taylor, Reginald J (Lance Corporal)
Truett, Arthur John (Private)
Warner, Arthur (Private)
Warner, David (Sergeant)
Williamson, John Needham (Private)
Woolmer, Arthur John (Gunner)

 

“Also in grateful memory of those who gave their lives in the World War 1939-1945”

Armson, Charles W (Leading Aircraftman)
Driver, Robert (Gunner)
Eales, John E (Guardsman)
Fletcher, Robert (Private)
Granger, Geoffrey (Sergeant)
Lee, Mark (Pilot Officer)
Lee, Wilfred E (Gunner)
Pargiter, Percy W (Private)
Potts, Anthony B (Flying Officer)
Sedgley, Roderick Alfred (Pilot Officer)
Winfield, Robert C (Able Seaman)
Woodcock, James (Private)
Wykes, Peter Terrey (Captain, R.A.)

 

Missing Entries

Davis, Gordon Wilfred (Private)
Kennedy, Tom Lumley (Flight Sergeant)

 

Casualties named on the school memorial not recorded on the main memorial.

Allen, Walter Smith (2nd Lieutenant)
Carnegie, Alexander (Shipwright 1st Class)
Cox, James Harold (Sergeant)
Hubbard, Alexander Robert (Private)
Jesson, Thomas Charles (Private)
Sturgess, John William (Sergeant)
Webb, H