This memorial is to be found in a poignant location right in front of St Mary's parish school. It takes the form of a cross made of granite with a sword fixed to the front. There are four panels around the bottom of the memorial, two of which have twenty two names listed on them.

There are three Catelinets listed on the memorial, two of which were brothers Henry and John. Henry was killed in action while fighting at Arras on the 12th April 1917. He was serving with C Company, 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regt. Henry had left Jersey with the Dorsets and went to France in 1914 with the original BEF and is remembered on the Arras Memorial. He was twenty two. His brother John died on the 2nd December 1918 aged twenty. He was serving with 3rd Bn., R.M.L.I., when he died of disease in the Aegean Sea area, and was buried in the East Mudros Cemetery. Their parents were James and Annie Catelinet of 1 D'Auvergne Cottages, Aquila Rd, St Helier.

A member of the Jersey Overseas Contingent is also remembered on the memorial. Sergeant Clarence George Minchington died of disease aged twenty three on the 24th April 1917 and is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, also a long way from home.

As I took the photographs of the memorial I couldn't help notice the date on the front of the school, 1901 and my thoughts turned to the boys who had attended the school during those early years, going in and out of the door with Garçons above it only for some years later to end up listed on the memorial now standing proudly in front of their old school, a most fitting place for their memorial.

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The inscription on the memorial reads in French: "St Marie Tribut Reconnaissance a La Memoire Des Paroissiens Morts Pour La Patrie 1914-1918"

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