St Germains Church

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Reference WMO/236822

Address:

City Road

Edgbaston

Birmingham

B17 8LE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Organ
Lettering: Incised
About the memorial: There is a central plaque on the organ to the dead of WW1 and on either side of this are two plaques to the dead of WW2. This organ was a War Memorial installed in St. Germain's Church in 1922. The new church had been built during the first world war, one of very few built at that time, and St. Germain's Church was consecrated for a new parish in September 2017. A letter dated October 1920 with the title: War Memorial: Organ Fund, and still in church records, states that the Church Council decided that its parochial thanksgiving for a victorious end to the war, and memorial to those who gave their lives, should take the form of the provision of an organ worthy of the new church. An appeal for donations to raise the £2000 required was sent out in October 1920 and the organ was built by Rushworth and Dreaper Ltd in 1922. There are records of the upkeep of the organ over the years, but it is sadly currently out of use due to the need for major repair work.
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At the top of the plaque to the dead of World War One which is on front of the organ, it reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH AND CONGREGATION WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 At the top of both the plaque on the left and on the right of the one to the dead of World War One are the following words TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CONGREGATION AND PARISH WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945.

The World War One names are LINNEAUS BAILEY EDWARD BINDLOSS THOMAS HAROLD BAKER ALFRED WILLIAM BOOTH GILLEARD CORNFORTH GEORGE F COTTRELL HAROLD W COTTRELL ARTHUR CORNELIUS COX JOHN W DABBS LAURENCE E DABBS CECIL HILL DARLEY WALTER HORATIO DIXON BEAMUONT E GAMMEL PHILIP FOREST GROVES HOWARD HUMPHRIES DOUGLAS GRAINGER JONES ALFRED KETTLE CYRIL RAYMONLONGMORE ARTHUR H G MACKENZIE CLARENCE ERIC MARSH FREDERICK W PARKER HUBERT PRIEST HAROLD W H RUDGE REGINALD F SANDERS HAROLD SNAPE GPRDON SPEAKE ALFRED JAMES STTRINGER ALBERT G STURROCK THOMAS W STURROCK WILLIAM TANDY ALBERT WADE PERCY WRIGHT EDMUND L WYATT FREDERICK H WHITE JOHN SOULSBY WILSON The Second World War names are JOHN ASTEL GARTH BILLINGTON DENNIS STANLEY BRICE LESLIE WILLIAM BRIGHT DONALD GEORGE DAUNCEY REGINALD JAMES DAY FRANK HILBERT GIBBERSON DAVID ALAN GOLD JOHN FREDERICK GOODWIN JOHN OSBORNE GORTON ERIC NORMAN HALL EDWIN FULLER HARRIS KENNETH DAVIS HOPKINS SYDNEY GEORGE KETTLE RICHARD LANGFORD ERIC ALFRED LAWTON HUGH BRUCE MILMAN DONALD THOMAS MONK BERNARD FREDERICK NURSEY FRANK THEODORE PRATT STANLEY ARTHUR ROPER GEORGE DOUGLAS SAVAGE JAMES THOMAS TANNER KENNETH NORMAN TAYLOR JOHN HENRY WALTERS DONALD KAY SMITH

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