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THIS BABTISTRY WAS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF
KINGS MESSENGERS
FROM THE PARISH OF KENILORTH
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTY
IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR
| CYRIL WILLIAM CARTER | REGINALD DENNIS CLIVE | NORMAN JOHN WARD | DUDLEY NEVILLE WHITE |
R.I.P
Our thanks to local Kenilworth Historian, Susan Tall, for the following information. These men were not official King's Messengers but in the fact the word
King refers to God not the Monarch of that time. They were the childrens’ department of the SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts). Here in Kenilworth at St Nicholas Church they organised concerts etc to raise money. The boys made scrapbooks and the girls dressed dolls to send to children in hospitals abroad. They were called the King’s Messengers and it seems to have been very much a middle class group compared to the church Sunday School which was almost all working class children.
King refers to God not the Monarch of that time. They were the childrens’ department of the SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts). Here in Kenilworth at St Nicholas Church they organised concerts etc to raise money. The boys made scrapbooks and the girls dressed dolls to send to children in hospitals abroad. They were called the King’s Messengers and it seems to have been very much a middle class group compared to the church Sunday School which was almost all working class children.
©Bibliography All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:
- Plaque photograph © Martin Tolley and War Memorials Online
- Kenilworth and the Great War by Susan Tall and Betty Sunley (Buy Direct from Authors) (Buy on Amazon)
- The Kenilworth War Memorial website by David Tall. Click here
- Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
- Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum for help with Yeomanry Soldiers
- The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 : 1903607639 & ISBN-13 : 978-1903607633
- Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
- The Great War Forum an excellent source of information and knowledge which is freely given.
- Lightbobs.com for help with Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry soldiers
- The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment by C. L. KINGSFORD
- The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by The Hon. H.A ADDERLEY