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War Memorials

The following inscription is taken from a war memorial fixed to the north wall of the nave of the Parish Church:

Billington War MemorialTo the Glory of God and in proud memory of

CUTHBERT PRATT

killed in France in the Great War
3rd May 1917 age 19

This memorial is placed here by the
Parishioners of Billington  July 1919

 

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The following inscription is taken from a Roll of Honour which is fixed next to the above war memorial on the north wall of the nave of the Parish Church:

 

1914 - 1918

THE FOLLOWING MEN
OF THIS PARISH
SERVED WITH HONOUR
IN THE GREAT WAR

Stanley N. Andrews.
Herbert A. Ashby.
Albert W. Brandham.
James Burchell.
John Burchell.
Frank R. Burnell.
Thomas Cox.
William Cox.
William J. Evans.
Reginald Fountain.
Herbert C. Griffin.
Lawrence T. Griffin.
Thomas Hooper.
John Jeffreys.
George Lee.
Frederick A. Page.
Fred Pratt.
William Roff.
George W. Sherrey.
James Smith.
George Thompson.

Billington Roll of Honour