First World War Memorial

The centre of this gilded triptych on wood shows St George slaying a Dragon. It was created about 1919–20. According to Grenville & N. Pevsner it is the result of collaboration between the eminent church architect Temple Moore (1856–1920) and painter and muralist Charles Head (1850–1926).

Sarah E Hornsey

There is one woman among this list of ‘Brave Men’, Sarah E Hornsey. She was a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse who contracted meningococcal meningitis whilst caring for the injured at Colchester Military Hospital. This type of infection was quite common in over-crowded military barracks and hospitals during the war. She never fully recovered and died in Malton, following a relapse, a year later in 1918 aged 34.

Two soldiers received medals

Captain Alick Dunbar Trotter received the Military Cross for his part in the Salonika Campaign on the Balkan Front. His name is also on the Doiran Memorial in northern Greece near the Macedonian border where he was killed. He died on 18 September 1918 aged 23.

Lieutenant Colonel James Albert Raymond Thomson served in the 5th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). He received the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) for his actions on the Craonne Plateau, France during the German offensive known as the Third Battle of the Aisne. He died on 27 May 1918 at the age of 42. He was also awarded the Croix de Guerre with a Gold Star by the French for his heroism on French soil.