Roll of Honour

Bush Hill Park United Reformed Church Roll of Honour

After the Second World War it was decided to revamp the War Memorial in the church to include the fallen of that War.  The Deacons Meeting of November 1948 suggested the laying of wreaths on Remembrance Sunday at the evening service, the morning service to contain two minutes silence at 11am with a bugle played by a BB Officer:  The wreath laying to include one from the Church Secretary.

The Deacons Meeting of November 1949 recommended the laying of wreaths at the foot of the War Memorial on Armistice Sunday.

The Deacons Meeting of May 1950 reads:

“Resulting from inquiries, it was found that the present memorial was constructed by the brother of the late Rev Gray, and that the lettering was the work of Mr A Hudson.  Mr Sweetman suggested that wings or leaves be constructed to match the present memorial and that the expert from Memorial Hall was to be called on for advice.”

The Church Meeting minute of July 1950 reads:

“In the case of the War Memorial it was unanimously agreed that the names of the fallen only should be shown.  The present memorial be cleaned and re-polished, the names arranged on the side panels and the centre an appropriate verse.  The whole to be completed for November.”

On the 30^th October 1950 It was Agreed at the Deacons Meeting that the War Memorial in its new form with the names of the ‘fallen’ only be unveiled with due ceremony.  This was done in November 1950 when the reworded War Memorial was unveiled at the evening service.

The names listed are:

 It is believed that all the men who died in WW1 were connected with to our Boys’ Brigade Company.

A search of the Commonwealth War Graves website has found most of those who fell in WW1  lived close to the church in the 1911 census and piecing together their lives in the context of family life is a salutary experience.

, 27th February 2011