# Monkton War Memorial

The village war memorial stands [location — near the church / on the green].
Its inscription reads:

```{epigraph}
To the glory of God and in loving memory of the men of Monkton who
made the supreme sacrifice during the Great Wars: 1914 – 1918, 1939 – 1945.
This memorial [raised by public subscription] is dedicated.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends."
```

## 1914 – 1918

- Charles Andrews
- John Carthew
- Ernest Fitall
- George Foad
- Cecil Garlinge
- William Garlinge
- Albert Hammond
- Frederick Hammond
- Frederick William Ireland
- Frederick Thomas Johnson
- Charles Alfred Pritchard
- [Sidney (Sydney) Shonk](https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/548339/sydney-shonk/) —
  Private, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 7th Bn., died 1 July 1916
  (the first day of the Battle of the Somme), aged 22; buried at
  Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, France. The Commonwealth War
  Graves Commission records him as "son of the late Stephen and Sarah
  Shonk" — almost certainly the Stephen and Sarah Shonk buried in the
  [churchyard](churchyard/numbered-stones.md) alongside later
  generations of the same family.
- Percy William Stevens

## 1939 – 1945

- Arthur Dunk
- Ernest Fagg
- Norman Hood
- Cyril Smith
- Ronald Bushell
- Digby Alfred Fuller

```{epigraph}
Grant them O Lord eternal rest and let light perpetual shine upon them.
```

## Names added later

Two further names appear separately on the memorial, associated with
the 1914–1918 list:

- Driver Jack Matthews
- William John Knight
- Henry John Martin
- Daniel Rogers

```{note}
Driver John Matthews, who died of flu on 29 December 1918 while serving
with the Royal Army Service Corps, is buried in the [churchyard](churchyard/index.md)
(plot 191) but was **not originally included** on the village war
memorial — see his [churchyard entry](churchyard/survey-by-location.md)
for more on his story.
```

## Commonwealth War Graves in the churchyard

The [Commonwealth War Graves Commission](https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/39825/monkton-st-mary-magdalene-churchyard/)
records four First World War graves at St Mary Magdalene — all four
of the men above with a churchyard plot number. Their CWGC records add
service numbers, next-of-kin, and precise grave positions not given
in the churchyard survey itself:

- **[Private Ernest Fitall](https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/365926/ernest-fitall/)**,
  The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 3rd Bn. (service no. 6453; latterly
  426th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps), died 31 October 1918,
  aged 31. Husband of Fanny Fitall of Monkton Street, Ramsgate. Grave
  position: "South of Church tower, near South boundary." Headstone
  inscription: "R.I.P. THY WILL BE DONE." (plot 182)
- **[Private Walter George Long](https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/365927/walter-george-long/)**,
  East Surrey Regiment, 2nd/6th Bn. (service no. 5060), died 10
  October 1916, aged 40. Husband of Florence Kate Long, of Walthamstow.
  (plot 8)
- **[Private James Booth Bradbury](https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/365925/james-booth-bradbury/)**,
  East Surrey Regiment, 2nd/6th Bn. (service no. 242209), died 3
  September 1917, aged 19. Son of Charles James and Ann Bradbury, of
  Back-o'th-Lee, Diggle, Oldham. Grave position: "North-West of
  Church, near West boundary." (plot 9)
- **[Driver J. (Jack) Matthews](https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/365928/j-matthews/)**,
  Royal Army Service Corps (service no. 261564), died 29 December
  1918. Grave position: "South-West of Church, near South boundary."
  (plot 191)

See [Memorials Inside the Church](memorials-inside.md) and the
[churchyard survey](churchyard/survey-by-location.md) for these men's
gravestones themselves.