GAILEY WAR MEMORIAL STAFFORDSHIRE
This memorial has been relocated and now stands in the churchyard of Gailey Church
which is now a private residence and a pottery gallery
The memorial originally stood at the cross roads where the new roundabout has been built which a few yards for the churchyard.
To the glory of God and in pious memory of the men of this parish who fell in theGreat War.
This Cross was dedicated 21st May 1921
BAILEY William, 1st South Staffordshire Regiment
GETLEY George Thomas, 2/8th Sherwood Foresters
HALL Sidney John, 8th South Staffordshire Regiment
ILES Herbert, Royal Horse Artillery
JONES Frederick Percival, Grenadier Guards
LIGHT, William, Royal Navy
NICKOLS Samuel, 1st North Staffordshire Regiment
PODMORE Walter Henry, 4th Worcestershire Regiment
POWELL Henry, 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment
RICHARDS Albert, Royal Field Artillery
ROWE Albert Ernest, Army Service Corps
WILLIAMS Richard John, South Staffordshire Regiment
War memorial tablet inside the church/private dwelling
These men are not commemorated on the War Memorial
To the Glory of God and in honoured memory of Lieutenant Colonel Hyla Napier Holden, D.S.O., 5th Cavalry, Indian Army. Born April 13th, 1871. Killed in action on October 20th, 1918, near Allpo and buried at Beirut, also the Revd Oswald Addenbrooke Holden, M.A.R.D. Vicar of Penn, Staffordshire, Chaplin to the forces. Born 9th April 1871, killed in action near Cambrai on December 1st, 917,buried where he fell. The only sons of the Revd O.M.Holden, M.A., Vicar of Gouley-Cum-Hatherton from 1871-to-1900 and of Henrietta his wife.
This tablet is placed here by their three friends, W. Leenard Ward, Mable Twentyman and Margaret B Ward
