Positions and movements of Parliamentary Army, March 1644
This section carries accounts of the effects of warfare in East Meon, including an account of the Parliamentary Army’s encampment in March 1644, manoeuvres in the valley in 1894 and the ravages of two World Wars.
21 young men who died in the Great War are recorded on the East Meon War Memorial.
US map of the disastrous battle of Vierstraat Ridge, in which three young East Meon men lost their lives on the same day.
Sub-lieutenant, later Admiral, Kipper Robinson who won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli
Artillery Sergeant Ernest George Robinson, who won his VC at the Marne.
Edward Bone who won the DCM, taking a machine gun post at Gheluwe.
Marine Owen Budd who lost his life after the war, as a result of wounds received when HMS Bulwark was sunk in 1914.
George W Atkinson, prisoner of war, whereabouts unknown to his family.
On the Home Front, villagers had to replace the men who joined the army.
East Window of All Saints, commissioned as a War Memorial by Rev Thomas Heywood Masters, who spent the war at the front.
