| St Saviour's Parish Hall
is located about half way up St Saviour's Hill almost opposite the Parish Church
and it is inside the Parish Hall you will find the Memorial to the men of St Saviour
who died in the Great War and in the Second World War. The names of the dead are
listed on a wooden and glass panel disappointingly located on a wall in a stair
well, giving the feeling of being partially hidden away on the stairs leading
to the first floor Parish Assembly Hall, a real shame for the memorial lists an
incredibly sixty five names of men who died during World War I and a further twenty
six names of servicemen who perished in World War II although there is a garden
of remembrance located outside the Parish Hall opposite the main door which has
a flag pole as it's centre piece. 
The
inscription on the Memorial reads: Paroisse De St Sauveur
A La Mémoire Des Paroissiens
Morts Pour La Patrie |
St
Saviour's Parish Memorial |
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Thomas
Revell died on the 4th February, 1915; his body was never identified so his
name was inscribed with the thousands of others on the panels of the Menin Gate
Memorial at Eiper (Ypres). The son of Thomas Revell and husband of Virginia
Leopold Revell, of 11 Springfield Cottages, Springfield Road, St. Helier, he had
two children with Virginia, and had rejoined the army on the outbreak of war in
1914 having left it five years earlier. Thomas was killed in action at
the age of thirty-four serving as a private with the 1st Battalion, East Surrey
Regt. Prior to rejoining the army he had been working for Messrs Terry Brothers
of the Esplanade, St Helier. |
Leading Seaman Percy
John Batho was the son of Mr and Mrs John Batho of D'Hautree Gardens, St Saviour's
Hill, and was serving on the HMS Laurentic when the ship was lost off the coast
of Ireland on the 25th January, 1917. He had served in the Navy for some
twelve years previously and was aged thirty-one when he died. Unfortunately
for John he had only just joined the Laurentic a few days before her loss. He
is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. |
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