‘Their Name Liveth for Evermore’.
Every Remembrance Sunday the names of the 28 men from the rural villages of Cerne Abbas, Up Cerne, Minterne and Godmanstone in the County of Dorset, whose names are honoured on their respective war memorials, are read out at the Service in St Mary’s Church, Cerne Abbas. They include casualties from the First and Second World Wars and the Falklands conflict.
The Society has researched the lives and deaths of each of these men and what has been discovered about them is summarised here in a downloadable pdf document.
The Society is pleased to record that this research identified two men who were casualties of the First World War and who had missed commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. They will now be honoured with a CWGC headstone at their local graves.
UP CERNE WAR MEMORIAL
World War I 1914-1918
John Henry Stode Batten
CERNE ABBAS WAR MEMORIAL
World War I 1914-1918
Edward Henry Young
Horace Collier
Charles Damen
Harry Derriman
Albert Edward Way
James Henry Lake
Harold Hunt
Charles Burt
Thomas Williment
Frank Paulley
George Curtis
Reginald Henry Vine
William Charles Walter
Miller
Hamilton Diment
World War II 1939-1945
Christopher Downton
Walter Charles Downton
Thomas Herbert Harvey
John William Harvey
John Robert James Norman Jay
Montague Moore
Ernest Robert Old
Alan Jeffrey Thomas
Richard Wilfred Yearsley
Falkland Islands Conflict 1982
Ronald J Rotherham
GODMANSTONE AND NETHER CERNE WAR MEMORIAL
World War I 1914-1918
William John Hill Dunman
Ernest Ralph Rolls
John Osmond
Edward Silas Morris
World War II 1939-1945
Thomas Leo Pile
Charles Trevett
MINTERNE MAGNA WAR MEMORIAL
World War I 1914-1918
Francis (Frank) George Napier
James Timothy Napier
Abdon Napier
George Hawkins
Frank Bratchell
Cecil Cheeseman
Ernest Adams
Joseph Clark
George Pilgrim
World War II 1939-1945
Joseph Charles Clark
The Society has researched the lives and deaths of each of these men and what has been discovered about them. To download the full text of this research in pdf format, click to go to the Downloads page.
‘Their Name Liveth for Evermore’
