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Location
In St Andrew's Church, Chale, Isle of Wight, PO38 2HF. IWM War Memorials Archive Record Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 21749 Historic England Listing Status St Andrew's Church is Grade II* Listed. Since the Memorial forms part of the fabric of the Church, is it assumed that it is included within the Listing. Description A private memorial plaque.
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS
Saturday, February 14, 1920 Page 7 CHALE CHURCH MEMORIALS. - The Diocesan authorities have granted an omnibus facility for the erection of a granite cross in the parish churchyard as a war memorial; the removal of the oaken war shrine from the outside of the church to the west wall inside; the erection of an alabaster tablet, with inscription, memorial to William Margetson Heald, Lieut, R.A.M.C., died in France, 1918, and a brass tablet memorial to Gladys Elizabeth Mary Way. |
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Memorial
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Inscription
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM MARGETSON HEALD R.A.M.C. ONLY SON OF THE REV. C.W. AND MRS HEALD OF CHALE RECTORY WHO WAS WOUNDED AT HIS AID POST ON THE SOMME ON 23RD AUG 1918 WHILE ATTACHED TO THE 16TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS HE DIED IN No 2 RED CROSS HOSPITAL AT ROUEN ON SEP 8TH AND WAS LAID TO REST IN THE ST SEVERS CEMETERY AGED 24 YEARS "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" Further Information
William Margetson Heald
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