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Sneinton District Virtual

This virtual memorial has been compiled from Nottingham Evening Post obituary entries, the CWGC Debt of Honour Register and other military sources, census data and Birth, Marriage and Death indexes. It commemorate fatalities from the Sneinton area of Nottingham whose names do not appear on the memorial in St Stephen's Church. Most of those listed here lived in four parishes. Neither St Matthias nor St Alban seem to have erected memorials during the Great War's aftermath. However, from the totals posted on the parish by parish plaque at St Mary's, it appears that 20 St Alban men and 272 from St Matthias perished. At St Christopher, some time after the First World War the glass in the east window was replaced as a memorial to the men of the parish who did not return from the war. Research to date has failed to locate a Roll of Honour or other details except that the memorial window, destroyed by the Luftwaffe in May 1941, is said to have included the regimental insignia of every serviceman killed. At St Philip (65 killed according to the St Mary's wall memorial), notes Doug Fletcher, ‘A brass plaque bearing the names of the men of the parish who died in World War I was fixed to the north wall of the Chancel. It had a double column of names. The apsidal chancel had five stained glass windows by a local maker, Gascoyne. These five widows formed (a second) War Memorial for the First World War.’ As well as 200 listed at St Stephen, it is probable that around 460 additional Sneinton men were lost during the 1914-18 conflict, perhaps around 100 from the parish of St Christopher which has no total listed at St Mary's. David Nunn

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