Enfield Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour contains 73 names from the Great War, 58 from the Second World War and 1 from the Falklands Conflict.

St Andrew’s is unusual as a parish church in that our war memorial is the amazing mural on the chancel wall. However, that means that we don’t have a war memorial or commemorative roll of honour as so many churches do. What we do have is a roll of honour, which has been maintained as a list by successive vicars since the Rev. R Howell Brown in 1914. Over time and as the list has been transcribed errors crept in, so when John Tanner started to try to find out more about the men who are commemorated, it proved something of a challenge. In the last ten years names have been corrected and graves and memorials tracked down and photographed. Men who should have been included have been tracked down and added. There are still more to find but you can now see the results of over ten years’ research.

The original Roll of Honour was announced in the Parish Magazine in October 1915 in the following terms:

"Most of the congregation worshipping in St Andrew's Church will have noticed the beautiful and very artistic 'Roll of Honour' containing the names of those who have given their lives for King and Country in the present War, among the sailors and soldiers for whom prayers have been asked in the Parish Church. It is the work of Miss Elspeth Clarke, of Wellington Road, who presented it to the Church."

Clearly not everyone from the Parish who served, and still fewer of those killed, will have been prayed for by the congregation.We have identified over 200 soldiers, sailors and airmen who died in the Great War with addresses in the Parish, who do not appear on the original roll. We are in the process of adding them to this website.

UPDATE – 22 January 2011 – A first batch of 95 further casualties from the Great War, with addresses confirmed within the Parish, have been added as a new section at the end of the Roll of Honour. If you have any information on any of these men please contact us.

Remembrance 2011

Some what unexpectedly, in recent weeks the opening of an old chest in the Artillery Chapel has revealed the original Rolls of Honour, which were long thought to have been lost. There are two rolls a hand illuminated one, as described in the Parish Magazine of the time for 1914-1918 and a commercially bought one for 1939-1945, which appears to have been completed at different time and in different hands. Photographs of both are shown here.

(photograph by permission of the London Borough of Enfield)

use the link below to download and view the complete Roll of Honour

Enfield Roll of Honour

contact John Tanner for any further information

archive@st-andrew-enfield.com

If you have found our site useful, or of particular interest, we would love to hear from you.

Similarly, if you have information or photographs that would complete a particular entry on the Roll, then please contact us.

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