War Memorial in Cottered in Hertfordshire

Cottered is a village west of Buntingford and east of Baldock in Hertfordshire. Among those who have held the living of Cottered include the Reverend Anthony Trollope, who was grandfather of the authors Anthony Trollope and Thomas Adolphus Trollope. He was incumbent of Cottered for forty-four years and died in 1806. Cottered also has a blue plaque to the first president of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, who stayed at The Kennels, country home of James Cantlie.

Cottered's War Memorial is situated in St John the Baptist, a handsome church dating principally from the 15th century with an embattled tower and a lofty spire.

Cottered's war memorial is a Plaque mounted on wood with a crest at the top centre, which appears to be of  the British Legion [1].

Memorial to the dead, St John the Baptist Church, Cottered, Hertfordshire.

[Text on Crest]

British

Legion

[Text]

Remember before God

The men of this parish

Who died in the two world wars

*

1914 ~ 1918

Sidney Barker Samuel Castle

Patrick Seymour Clement Parker

John Pinnock Herbert Wilds

Cecil Charles Smith

*

1939 ~ 1945

Ernest Hayden Percy Hummerston

Fredrerick Jackson

R*I*P

[1] IWM Memorials Archive (http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48427)