The First World War claimed the lives of 750,000 British soldiers including the following eleven local men. Families in nearly every village, town and city in the country suffererd the loss of a son, brother or father. The Roll of Honour plaque commemorating the First World War dead is located inside St. John’s Church, Flexford Road, North Baddesley and the War Memorial is outside in the church grounds. The War Memorial was erected in 1920 and dedicated May 23rd of that year.
Photograph of Baddesley Manor House, 1920
BETTERIDGE W.H.& W.E.
TANKERVILLE CHAMBERLAYNE T.E.O.
FREEBORN G.C.
HARPER A.
LOCKYER W.T.
MACK H.
PAIN F.F.M.
PARKIN W.
PORTER G.
SILLENCE W.H.
The total cost of the war, in terms of military dead and wounded, can only be estimated because of omissions and inaccuracies in the official records of some of the belligerents. Up to 13 million combatants from the following countries British Empire (Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other Empire countries of the time), France, Italy, Russia, United States, Germany, Austro-Hungary and Turkey may have been killed on the battlefield or died from disease plus another 21 million wounded.
Their sacrifice should never be forgotten.
