Lt John Perkins Sworder and Lt Hubert Pelham Sworder

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Reference WMO/289574

Address:

St Mary Magdalene Church

Church Lane

Barkway

SG8 8EJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Two identical rectangular dark marble tablets with text in gold lettering. Given as separate entries by the IWM Register but the photo clearly shows them to be linked both physically and terminologically to each other and to other family memorials above. So they appear as a single entry here.
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J P Sworder - "To the glory of God and in proud and loving memory of the only children of/John William and Annie Jane Sworder of Barkway/Lieutenant/John Perkins Sworder/educated at Haileybury College/sometime acting adjutant/to the 2/5th Battalion of/The Queen's Regiment/attached to the 1/1 Hereford Regmt/He fought in Palestine May-June 1918/and died in France July 24 1918 aged 29/from wounds received in action/the previous day near Parcy-Tigny/his body lies in the British cemetery near Longpont/Departmt of the Aisne. One of his brother Officers said of him/"A splendid Officer and a very gallant gentleman" Their lives they laid down for King and Country/and their souls they rendered up to God." H P Sworder - "Across the top-To the glory of god and in proud & loving memory of the only children of/John William and Annie Jane Sworder of Barkway Right Hand Panel- Lieutenant/Hubert Pelham Sworder/educated at Haileybury College /and at Sandhurst at which latter place/he became under officer/though the youngest of his company/gazetted to/The Queen's Regiment/He became temporary captain/before he was 19/joining the royal Flying Corps/he was killed in aerial action between Arras and Cambrai April 2nd 1917/aged 19/+/ "His Squadron Commander wrote of him/"extraordinarily brave. A true type of the best that England can produce" Across the bottom,- "Their lives they laid down for King and Country/and their souls they rendered up to God"."

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