St Luke war memorial
St Luke's Church war memorial
46 members of the congregation of St Luke's Church lost their lives during the Great War. Their names are inscribed on three sides of the memorial outside the church.
Other memorials
The memorial takes the form of a cross, a sword attached to the front.
On the front the is the inscription In Memory of Our Men who Gave Their Lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918 Greater Love Hath No Man Then This
- Bisson, Philip
- Braithwaite, Philip P
- Browning, Charles W
- Cabot, George A
- Clarke, Frederick J N
- Cutler, Stuart Le C
- De Gruchy, Snowdon
- De Ste Croix, Harold
- De Ste Croix, Wilfred
- Duhan, Francis T
- Fairlie, James C
- Gosselin, Ernest J P
- Harding, Nelson J
- Harvey, Harold J
- Hewat, Anthony M
- Birkby, Henry A
- Hudson, Edward S
- Hudson, Godfrey
- Humphrys, Charles E
- Journeaux, William
- Laugeard, Charles I
- Le Blancq, Edgar
- Le Vesconte, John T
- Lewis, George A D
- Livermore, Frederick I
- Livermore, William H
- Machon, Charles J
- Brooke-Murray, Kenneth
- Nelis, James E T
- Noel, Herbert G
- O'Brian, Leicester D
- Peyton, Wynward
- Peyton, Montagu
- Poingdestre, Alfred
- Pralle, Arthur C
- Rickett, Arthur H
- Ruaux, Ernest W
- Saunders, Stanley R
- Stent, Everard C
- Tank, Charles H
- Toms, Arthur W
- Touzel, Herbert C
- Vallois, Frank L
- Vallois, Ernest A
- Wakley, Alfred
- Wakley, William J
Individual stories
Frederick John Noel Clarke
Second Lieutenant Frederick Clarke was killed in action on 29 June 1915 aged just 19. He was serving with the 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment at the time of his death and was the only son of Frederick Charles Philip and Minnie Jane Clarke of Runnymede, Roseville Street, St Helier.
An Old Victorian and former member of the 3rd (South) Battalion of the Royal Jersey Militia, Frederick had trained at Sandhurst and was killed only a short time after reaching the front. He was one of the first to volunteer from the 3rd Battalion, and the first to be killed. He is buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium.
Livermore brothers
Two brothers remembered on the memorial are Frederick Isaac and William Henry Livermore, who died four months apart in different parts of the world.
William was initially reported as missing while fighting in the Battle of the Somme on 17 November 1916. Frederick was initially reported missing near Baghdad in the Middle East on 25 March 1917. Both brothers were Privates in the Dorsetshire Regiment, William in the 1st Battalion and Frederick with the 2nd Battalion.
William was the older, aged 39 when he was killed in action and Frederick was 30 when he died. They were the sons of James and Hannah Livermore. Notification of William’s death came through at about the same time as that of his brother. William is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and Frederick is remembered on the Basra Memorial.
Arthur Woodland Toms
Arthur Toms was the second son of Frederick and Emily Woodland Toms of 1 Claremont Terrace, St Helier. His father was the States Analyst and he was educated at Victoria College, where he was both a Prefect and vice-captain of the football team in 1908-09. He became a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment in 1912.
He was killed in France on 27 November 1914, aged 23, and is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery. At the time of his death he was preparing to leave the Army and join the Colonial Office, with his appointment to a position in West Africa being offered to him three days before the declaration of war. At the time of his death he was attached to 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
