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Location
In Ventnor Congregational Church, (now demolished), High Street, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Description and history Manuscript Roll of Honour. It is believed that the Roll of Honour was lost when the Church was demolished in the 1970s.
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, August 9, 1918 Page 3 Remembrance Day at Ventnor. CHURCH SERVICES. ... The roll of honour of the Congregational Church was displayed in the vestibule and surrounded with flowers. There were good congregations at both services. In the evening the Minister, Rev. A.E. Chisman, B.D., preached the second of a special course of sermons, the subject being "If war be wrong, can it be right to fight." The sermon was delivered with argumentative force and earnestness. (not all the report has been transcribed) |
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Memorial
Click to enlarge - photo from Fay Brown collection |
Inscription
no details known Further information Rev Chisman's son, Arthur Langley Chisman, died on active service in WW II :
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, July 20, 1945 Page 2 ON ACTIVE SERVICE CHISMAN. - Arthur Langley, R.A.F., husband of Mary and only son of Mrs. A.E. and the late Rev. A.E. Chisman, B.D. Reported missing on air operations October 1944. Now presumed to have lost his life. CWGC record ... Rev Arthur Ernest Chisman died in 1941; his wife Minnie Baker Chisman died in 1967, both on the Isle of Wight.
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