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Brinklow is a large village in Warwickshire some 5 miles North West of Rugby.
The Memorial consists of a Tablet in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Brinklow recording those who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1918 and the Second World War 1939 - 1945.
St. John the Baptist Church Brinklow
Bronze Tablet
Those who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1919 and recorded on the War Memorial in Brinklow
Thomas Clifton Private No 15318 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Killed in action 9th May 1915 aged 21 years. Commemorated Ploegsteert Memorial. The Memorial stands in Berks Cemetery Extension, Belgium.
Archer Colledge Private No 24649 2/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 3rd September 1917 aged 29 years. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing which forms the north-east boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium
George Cox Driver No 96484 Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery. Died of Wounds 2nd September 1917 in France & Flanders. Buried in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Elverdinghe, West Flanders.
John Jordan Derry Private No 20465 16th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 15th May 1918 aged 33. Buried in Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, Nord.
Donald Campbell Hair Second Lieutenant 6th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 3rd October 1916 aged 20 years. Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Roland Isaac Kenney Sergeant No 2096 1st/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 14th July 1916 aged 23. Buried Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, Somme.
Robert Edward Henry Murden Private No 1546 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Military Medal. Killed in action 3rd September 1916 age 25. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Henry Nichols Private No 242557 1/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 11th March 1917. Buried in Assevillers New British Cemetery, Somme, France
Arthur Walter Over Sapper No 24000 Corps of Royal Engineers (260th Railway Construction Coy. RE). Died of Wounds 11th January 1918 aged 26. Buried in Oxford Road Cemetery, Ypres, Western Flanders.
Charles Herbert Over Private No 1368 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died of Wounds 20th October 1914. Buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Western Flanders.
Richard Edmund Phipps Lance-Sergeant No 19057 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Killed in action 4th April 1916 France & Flanders aged 20 years. Buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Western Flanders
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Sidney Rowe Private No 16389 8th Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (formerly no.6183 Royal Warwickshire Regiment). Died 17th July 1917 in the Balkans. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery
Walter Tew Private No 60380 5th Battalion King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) (formerly M/225055 R.A.S.C.) Killed in action 12th September 1918 aged 31 years. Commemorated Vis-en-Artois Memorial.
Arthur Walker Private No 265279 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died 21st November 1918 in Germany. Buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Koln.
Benjamin Watkins Private No 8213 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards. Died 25th August 1914. Buried in Landrecies Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.
James Ernest Watkins Private No 1367 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 25th October 1914. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Western Flanders.
Those who laid down their lives in the Second World War 1939 - 1945 and recorded on the War Memorial in Brinklow 
Frederick John Cummins Leading Seaman No P/JX141593 Royal Navy. Died 22nd May 1941 aged 22 years whilst serving on H.M.S. Greyhound. Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial
John Ellis Holt Signalman No 2353834 Royal Corps of Signals, 32nd Anti-Tank Brigade Signals. Died 29th May 1942 aged 27 years. Buried Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, which is south of the main road from Benghazi to Tobruk and about 25 kilometres west of Tobruk, in Libya.
Alan James Lewin Private No 4919926 South Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion. Died 19th September 1944 aged 28 years. Buried Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, which is some 7 kilometres west of Arnhem itself.
Those commemorated and buried in Brinklow Cemetery.
(The Churchyard at St John the Baptist Brinklow was closed to Burials by Order in Council of 9th September 1884).
Grave of G F Dalton Gunner No. 1148 Royal Field Artillery, “A” Battery, 59th Brigade. Died 18th August 1920. Headstone bears inscription "Rest in the Lord."
Grave of Charles Augustus Eamonson Ring Captain Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 29th October 1918 aged 39 years.
Doctor Charles Ring F.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. had succeeded to the practice of Doctor Hair and had attended patients in the Monks Kirby, Pailton and Brinklow area for some ten years. He had served in France and Salonika. Charles Ring was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal as he served overseas in a theatre of war between the 5th August 1914 and the 11 November 1918 but he was also awarded the 1914 – 15 Star given for serving in any theatre of war against Germany and her allies between 5th August 1914 and 31st December 1915, the Record showing the Theatre of War first served in, Salonika, and Date of entry therein, 28th October 1915.
On the 6th October 1915 the Austrian and German armies launched an attack on Serbia, Austria seeking to make amends for its comprehensive defeat by the Serbian Army in 1914 whilst Germany was seeking retoration of direct communication with Turkey. A month earlier Bulgaria had joined the Central Powers whilst Serbia had an alliance with Greece for Greek assistance in the event of Bulgaria invading Serbia. Appeals by the Greek Prime Minister for assistance led to an Anglo-French force being sent to Salonika in Northern Greece but its role at once became uncertain with the dismissal of the Greek Prime Minister and an announcement of strict Greek neutrality.
The first British troops to arrive at Salonika were from the 10th (Irish) Division. HQ 29th Brigade, 6th Royal Irish Rifles and 6th Leinsters arriving on the 5th October 1915 from Gallipoli via Mudros. By the 24th October the bulk of the 10th Division had landed followed by the 27th Division the first elements of which, 4th Rifle Brigade and 4th King’s Royal Rifle Corps arriving in November 1915.
During the First World War a number of men with medical training were needed to cope with the number of casualties and a number of doctors of whom Charles Ring was one were granted temporary commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps, there records of service were kept separately but as these officers were only needed for the war, their records were all destroyed after 1920.
Captain Ring’s service record has therefore not survived but it is unlikely that he served as a battalion medical officer with any of the 10th Division’s Battalions but was based at one of the Stationary or General Hospitals located around Salonika itself treating the more seriously wounded or sick men bearing in mind that throughout the entire campaign in Macedonia disease rather than the enemy claimed most casualties, the chief cause being malaria. Non-battle casualties totalled 481,262 twenty times the total number of battlefield casualties.
He died at home, The Lodge, Brinklow, from influenza having heroically attended his patients until he was absolutely obliged to go to bed and in spite of medical and nursing care succumbed and died on the 29th October. The funeral was on the 1st November following when he was buried in Brinklow Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and 3 children.
Grave of Albert Tew Gunner No. 226440 Royal Field Artillery, 43rd Reserve Battery. Died 15th June 1918 aged 21 years. Headstone bears inscription "Thy Will be Done."
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