WW1 Tapestry from Napsbury at St Albans Museum

Just a quick note to warn you that the excellent WW1 Exhibition at St Albans Museum  "Keep the Home Fires Burning" finishes on 14th November. There is still time to see this wonderful tapestry of military badges made by soldiers in Napsbury Military Hospital and also the Memorial Window from the Folly Chapel at Wheathampstead.

New Names for the Wheathampstead War Memorial

I have just received the following message:

Good news about the Folly memorial windows! Through the work of Terence Pankhurst and his wife in Wheathampstead, they have identified 4 names which are currently missing from the main war memorial in the village These names will be inscribed on a plaque, to be added to the current war memorial  The names listed on the Folly Methodist Chapel Memorial Windows, which are missing at the moment from the main one, are as follows:

Sidney Bandy,

Francis George Gray,

Murray Walter Harrison.

Cyril John Pearce is to be added to the war memorial although he was technically not a soldier at that time.

WW1 Memorial Window from Folly Methodist Chapel, Wheathampstead

This memorial window can currently be seen as part of the Keeping the Home Fires Burning exhibition (until 16th November 2014) at the Museum of St Albans. 

The names are: 

S. Bandy, C. Carter, F. Gray, M. Harrison, H. Izzard, H. Lawrence, G. Minal, A. Munt, A. Odell, C. Pearce, G. Upton-Robins & H. Wilson.

Click here for the story of how this web site helped in the window finding its new home.

Their Names live again - in St Albans Museum

With the help of this Newsletter these First World War memorial windows from Wheathampstead have found a new home. (St Albans & Harpenden Review, January 22nd, 2014)

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