WWI WAR MEMORIAL ON THE NORTH WALL, INSIDE THE CHURCH
[The text is reproduced as on the memorial, apart from the addition of asterisks, the dagger and the Notes.
 See below for apparent errors, and discrepancies with the outside War Memorial and rollofhonour.com.]
 
 
TO the GLORY of GOD
in ever affectionate and honoured memory of
MAURICE COWELL
Major Royal Field Artillery T. F.
and of
 
1914 WILLIAM LEEK Royal Navy   1916 ALFRED SMITH 9th Suffolks *
1915 CHARLES RICHARD BATES 7th Suffolks     JOHN SMITH 7th Suffolks *
  WILLIAM BERRY 2nd Suffolks *     GEORGE DENNIS SMITH 8th Suffolks
  JOSEPH LEE 7th Suffolks †   1917 ALBERT JAMES CAREY 2nd Suffolks
  ERNEST WILLIAM MOSS 7th Suffolks     AMOS CHRISTOPHER CURTIS 4th Bedfords
1916 FREDERICK BONE 7th Suffolks *     WALTER DAVEY R.N.R.
  DAN GANT 4th Suffolks *     HARRY S. FOREMAN 11th Suffolks
  WILLIAM ROBERT HAILL 4th Suffolks *     GEORGE EDWARD HOWELL {8th Queen's R.W.
  HERBERT HUDSON 8th Suffolks *     WILLIAM GEORGE HOWELL {           Surrey
  HARRY JAMES LAST 5th London R.B. *     GEORGE HOLMES LANE R.N. Division
  WALTER READ 7th Suffolks     BERTIE NEWSON 8th Suffolks
  NELSON RIDGEON 8th Suffolks *     FREDERICK CHARLES OLDING 6th Somerset L.I.
          WILLIAM GEORGE READ 4th Norfolks
             
Who laid down their lives for their Country
In the Great War
1914 — 1919
 
The East Window of this Church is dedicated
By DOROTHY wife of MAURICE COWELL
and by
Descendants of the late NEWSON GARRETT
Founder of the Maltings Snape Bridge
 
I have fought a good fight
I have finished my course
I have kept the faith
 
 
Note: * These nine soldiers are listed as casualties of the Battle of the Somme (July to Nov. 1916); see below re William Berry: d.13/11/1916.
† Joseph Lee is the only casualty of both World Wars to be buried in Snape.  Death at Wharncliffe War Hospital, Wortley, S. Yorkshire (per RoH)
 
 
Beside the War Memorial is a "Roll of Honour [for the] Men who served in the Great War from the parish of Snape & Snape Bridge". 

 

  
© www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk — click to visit website   Snape's WW2 victims named on the plinth are listed more fully inside here.

 

PLAQUE FOR WWI
ON THE WAR MEMORIAL OUTSIDE
     

ERECTED IN HONOUR OF THE FALLEN.
     
AIREY A.J. GOODING S. NEWSON B.
BATES C.R. HAILL W.R. OLDING F.C.
BERRY W.C.R. HOWELL C.E. PITHER C.E.
BONE F. HOWELL W.G. PITHER S.
COWELL G.E.M. HUDSON H. READ W.
CRANE H.H. KING J. READ W.C.
CURTIS A.C. LAST H.J. RIDGEON N.
DAVEY W.E.R. LEE J. SMITH A.
FOREMAN H.S. LEEK W. SMITH G.
GANT D. MOSS E.W. SMITH J.

 

DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE WAR MEMORIALS
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CHURCH,
AND rollof honour.com [RoH]
   
A.J. AIREY (outside) or ALBERT JAMES CAREY (inside) Is this the same person?: RoH and CWGC suggest yes: no Carey casualties in Suffolks
* WILLIAM BERRY (outside W.C.R.=Wm CHARLES RUSSELL) d.Battle of the Somme 13/11/1916 at Puisieux (Pas-de-Calais), not 1915 (shown inside)
GEORGE EDMUND MAURICE COWELL listed inside just as "Maurice Cowell"
HARRY HARDING CRANE of London, not listed inside: 1st /15th London Regiment, d. 25/09/1915.
AMOS CHRISTOPHER CURTIS order of forenames differs on rollofhonour.com
WALTER ERNEST ROSE DAVEY two extra initials outside; RoH lists as d. 29/1/1918, not 1917 as implied inside
HARRY SIDNEY FOREMAN second forename identified by rollofhonour.com
* DANIEL GANT listed inside as "Dan"
SAMUEL MAURICE GOODINGS or (?)GOODING of Aldeburgh, not listed inside and RoH surname differs: 2nd Suffolks, d. 2/8/1915
* WILLIAM ROBERT HAILL or (?)HAILE spelling of surname differs on rollofhonour.com
GEORGE EDWARD HOWELL listed on RoH as d. 24/3/1918, not 1917 as implied inside
WILLIAM GEORGE HOWELL inside bracketed with Geo.Edw. as if same regiment, but was in Royal Defence Corps
JAMES KING not listed inside: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) ➡︎ Labour Corps, d. 29/11/1918
GEORGE HOLMES LANE not listed outside
† JOSEPH LEE Battalion differs, but nor is it shown on his headstone; also see note (†) above.
CECIL E PITHER of London, not listed inside: 12 Sqn RAF, d. 22/8/1918
SIDNEY EDWARD PITHER of London, not listed inside: RAF ⬅ 1st Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers, d.11/6/1918
WILLIAM CHARLES READ of Islington, not listed inside: 8th Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps, d. 12/5/1917
WILLIAM GEORGE READ not listed outside
* JOHN SMITH his Battalion differs between inside memorial and RoH
   
Underlined names have been identified/expanded from rollofhonour.com
Where "Battalion differs", that is between the memorial inside and the RoH website, as of course the outside memorial doesn't show men's units.

 

In the whole of Suffolk, there are only two so-called "Thankful Villages", communities where every soldier returned from the Great War —
Culpho (a hamlet now of less than 100 people near Grundisburgh) and
the even smaller South Elmham St Michael (between Halesworth and Bungay).
Within East Anglia there are just two others, both near Cambridge.  There is only one in the whole of France.