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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 14, 2017 14:25:54 GMT
The church became redundant and closed c.1980. The building is now occupied by Gailey Pottery, and the plaque below is still in situ there.TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF LIEUT COL HYLA NAPIER HOLDEN D.S.O. 5TH CAVALRY INDIAN ARMY. BORN APRIL 13TH 1871. KILLED IN ACTION ON OCT. 20TH 1918 NEAR ALEPPO AND BURIED AT BEIRUT. ALSO OF THE REV. OSWALD ADDENBROOKE HOLDEN M.A., R.D. VICAR OF PENN, STAFFS, CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES. BORN APRIL 9TH 1874. KILLED IN ACTION NEAR CAMBRAI ON DEC 1ST 1917. BURIED WHERE HE FELL. THE ONLY SONS OF THE REV. O.M.HOLDEN. M.A., B.C.L. VICAR OF GAILEY-CUM-HATHERTON FROM 1874 TO 1900 AND OF HENRIETTA HIS WIFE. THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THEIR THREE FRIENDS. + W.LEONARD WARD. MABEL TWENTYMAN & MARGARET B.WARD. Lieutenant Colonel Hyla Napier Holden D.S.O. and Bar 5th Indian Cavalry, attached 1st Lancers Sardar Risala Jodhpur Lancers 26.10.1918, aged 47 Son of Oswald Mangin Holden and Henrietta Holden, of Gailey Vicarage; husband of Katherine M. Holden, of "The Firs," Wallington, Surrey; born at KingswinfordThe Rev. Oswald Addenbrooke Holden, Chaplain 4th Class Army Chaplains' Department, attached 60th Infantry Brigade 1.12.1917, aged 43 Son of Oswald Mangin Holden and Henrietta Holden, of Gailey Vicarage; husband of Ella Mary Holden, of Penn Cot, Cooden Drive, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex
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