St Lawrence war memorial
St Lawrence parish war memorial
The Parish of St Lawrence memorial to those born or living in the parish at the outbreak of the Great War is in front of the Parish Hall, with its back to the hall
It takes the form of a pillar made of granite with a thick base, and a long slender neck leading to a shaped head, which has on the front a sword, attached pointing down the neck, the handle surrounded by a wreath.
The brass panels at the base of the memorial record the names of 34 men who died during The Great War, and a smaller panel, added to the front, has the names of seven men who died in World War II.
The simple inscription reads: 1914 Our Glorious Dead 1919
- Amourette, E
- Barnes, F D
- Bisson, G H
- Blanchet, J B
- Boulier, J S
- Cadin, P F changed from Cadiou, P F
- Clayden, A E
- Clayden, G J
- Dallain, A F
- De La Haye, C J
- De La Haye, S
- Duchemin, C A
- Syvret, S De B
- Hamon, L W
- Houelbecq, F W
- Rondel, C J
- Du Heaume, C
- Gale, J J
- Hamon, J J
- Hernot, J.
- Jennings, W J
- Langlois, G E
- Langlois, Ph. J
- Le Caudey, H L
- Le Cornu, J E
- Le Marquand, E
- Le Peurian, L
- Le Quesne, P N
- Markes, L
- Mossop, C S
- Moy, J M
- Nicholle, R S
- Roach, J H
- Rondel, C P
- Taylor, C De B
- Turnbull, J L
- Veler, J R
- Vibert, J
Individual stories
Charles Stanley Mossop
Charles Stanley Mossop DSC was just 20 when he died in an accident while flying a seaplane on 12 August 1918. He was a Lieutenant with the Royal Air Force, serving with 243 Squadron based at Cherbourg. He was the son of Charles and Eliza Mossop, of Cambray, Millbrook.
He died near Port En Bessin in Normandy, a town which 26 years later would be at the heart of Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings. He is also remembered on the Victoria College Memorial.
John Edward Le Cornu
John Edward Le Cornu, the husband of Hester Elizabeth, of 30 Great Union Road, St Helier, and a former employee of Voisins, died in the Brighton Road Military Hospital, Jersey, of influenza. A Private in the Hampshire Regiment he was 37 when he succumbed to the disease that would eventually kill some 18 million people world wide, twice the number the War would claim. He died on 28 October 1918.
He had initially joined the local Garrison Battalion before being drafted in the Hampshires and is buried in St Helier (Almorah) Cemetery.
Edward Le Marquand
The son of Edward Le Marquand and Alice, nee Guillaume, of Highlands, Edward Le Marquand, had emigrated to Canada some years before the war and, after joining the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards of Canada as a private, he found himself in a composite battalion awaiting posting to a Guards Regiment, when he was drowned by falling into a canal while on sentry duty. It was reported at the time that no injuries were ever found on his body, and no sounds of a struggle were heard that night. A verdict of accidental death was recorded. He died on 26 August 1916 and is buried in Montreal Cemetery, Canada.
