LEATHERHEAD'S WAR MEMORIALS

The Friends and Remembrance

The Friends of Leatherhead Parish Church helped enable the creation of a
Chapel of Remembrance in our ancient Parish Church of St. Mary & St.Nicholas.

Leatherhead Branch of the Royal British Legion's Standards are held there.

Above the Chapel's altar is the name board of those who died and the lists of those who served, from the town's original WWI War Memorial on the old Clock Tower in North Street.

One of the oldest members of the Friends, the late George Dench, carried the Parish Church Cross at the Service of Dedication of the present Town Memorial in North Street, in 1921. The old Clock Tower was demolished in 1952.

According to the History of Leatherhead (Leatherhead & District Local History Society, 1988) 983 Leatherhead men served in WWI and 163 gave their lives:

St. John's School Leatherhead has many names listed in the school chapel to Johnians who fell in both World Wars and in Korea.