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THE CHANCEL,
ST. MARY'S CHURCH,
OLD SQUARE,
WARWICK,
WARWICKSHIRE,
CV34 4AB.
ENGLAND.

ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID REFERENCE:SP281650.


St. Mary's Church with it's scaffold clad tower undergoing major refurb.


Brass plaque and stained glass window to the left wall of the Chancel.


Brass plaque with black lettering with capital letters highlighted in red. Ornate border with the Warwickshire bear above script.
Inscription thus:
"The above window is
placed in this church
by
The Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry
to the glory of GOD
and in memory of the undermentioned Officers and Men
o FF 5th Company Imperial Yeomanry
who fell during the Boer War in South Africa
1901-1902.
MAJOR J.A.ORR-EWING
LT. R.F.FLOWER
CORPORAL A. BAXTER
TROOPER W.F. LANE
". R. GRIMES
". W. MARTIN
". G. TIMMS
". E. BOLT
". W. BOTTRELL
". B. BALDWYN
". H.P. TOONE
". W. TIBBITTS
". R.F. GIBBS."


Stained glass window above plaque in Chancel.

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Monday and Tuesday open for funerals etc at the present time (08/02/2023) with no public access.

Biographical details to follow.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

MAJOR JAMES ALEXANDER ORR-EWING
KILLED IN ACTION AT KHEIS ON 28/05/1900.
INTERRED AT BOEGOEBERG DISTRICT, BRANDBOOM, MONUMENT 3.
QSA:CAPE COLONY.
More information on thread dedicated to himself on this forum.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD FORDHAM FLOWER.
KILLED IN ACTION AT HAMMANSKRAAL ON 20/08/1900.
INTERRED AT PETRONELLA, MONUMENT 1.
"LT. Richard Fordham Flower , 2nd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, was killed in action at Human's Kraal (taken from Palmer 1999). He was educated at Eton (Mr. Luxmoore's). LT. Flower, who was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry, entered the Imperial Yeomanry 7th February 1900, with the rank of Lieutenant in the Army, and proceeded to South Africa with the Warwickshire Company of the 2nd Battalion."

Also commemorated at Eton College Chapel, Luptons Chantry and a stained glass window at St. Michael's Church, Broadway, Worcestershire.
(Please see also thread by BereniceUK for more on Lt. Flower)
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

255 CORPORAL ARTHUR BAXTER
KILLED IN ACTION AT KHEIS ON 28/05/1900.
INTERRED AT BOEGOEBERG DISTRICT, BRANDBOOM, MONUMENT 3.
QSA; CAPE COLONY.

302 TROOPER WILLIAM FLOWER LANE
KILLED IN ACTION AT KHEIS ON 28/05/1900.
INTERRED AT BOEGOEBERG DISTRICT, BRANDBOOM, MONUMENT 3.
QSA: CAPE COLONY.

322 TROOPER ROBERT LEDBROOKE GRIMES
KILLED IN ACTION NEAR EDENBURG ON 06/03/1901.
INTERRED AT EDENBURG, MONUMENT 2.


Also commemorated on a brass tablet at St. Giles Church, Bubbenhall, Warwickshire CV8 3BE (OS Grid Reference SP35982 72592).
Inscribed thus:
"TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
ROBERT LEDBROOKE GRIMES
5TH COMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION NEAR
EDENBURG, ORANGE RIVER COLONY
SOUTH AFRICA, 6TH MARCH 1901.
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY RELATIONS
AND FRIENDS AS A TOKEN OF
AFFECTION AND ESTEEM
"BLESSED IS THE MAN INTO WHOM
THE LORD IMPUTETH NO SIN AND IN
WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO GUILE."


Stained glass window memorial to Grimes also in St. Giles, Bubbenhall.

Further remembered in the School Ante-chapel, Old Boys, Bloxham, Oxfordshire.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL/SOUTH AFRICA 1901.

304 TROOPER WILLIAM MARTIN.
WOUNDED AT TWEERIVER ON 01/11/1900 AND DIED OF THOSE WOUNDS THE SAME DAY.
INTERRED AT TWEERIVER.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

344 TROOPER GEORGE TIMMS.
KILLED IN ACTION NEAR EDENBURG ON 06/03/1901.
INTERRED AT EDENBURG, MONUMENT 2.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL/SOUTH AFRICA 1901.

254 TROOPER ELLIS BOLT.
DIED OF DISEASE AT PRETORIA ON 27/12/1900.
INTERRED AT PRETORIA, MONUMENT 5.
Palmer has his rank as Lance Corporal.
Also commemorated on the memorial tablet located in the Town Hall Porch at the Guildhall, Northampton.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

295 TROOPER WALTER WILLIAM THOMAS BOTTRELL.
DIED OF DISEASE AT HARRISMITH ON 30/03/1901.
INTERRED AT HARRISMITH TOWN, MONUMENT 5.
Also commemorated at Tysoe in Warwickshire (unable to locate this at the time of writing)
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL/SOUTH AFRICA 1901.

329 TROOPER BERTRAM BERNARD BALDWYN.
DIED OF DISEASE AT PRETORIA ON 23/12/1900.
INTERRED AT PRETORIA 1, MONUMENT 6.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

291 TROOPER HARRY PARKER TOONE.
DIED OF DISEASE AT PRETORIA ON 08/10/1900.
INTERRED AT PRETORIA 1, MONUMENT 24.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

308 TROOPER WILLIAM TIBBITTS.
DIED OF DISEASE AT PRETORIA ON 24/12/1900.
INTERRED AT PRETORIA 1, MONUMENT 2.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL.

293 TROOPER RICHARD FRANCIS GIBBS.
DIED OF DISEASE AT DEELFONTEIN ON 09/04/1901.
INTERRED AT DEELFONTEIN 2, MONUMENT 2.
QSA: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE/TRANSVAAL/SOUTH AFRICA 1901.



All info sourced from Palmer(1999) and Watt(2000) and FindMyPast.