Harold Montagu Newnham Chatterton
Location:
All Saints church,
Sanderstead,
Surrey
CR2 9AB
Details on cross:
RIP
IN MEMORY OF
2ND LIEUT. H. M. N. Chatterton
9TH QUEENS R.W.S. REGT
KILLED 18TH JUNE 1916
Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Carved
Cross dimensions (millimetres)
Shaft Height: 1,430
Cross beam width: 740
Width of wood: 140
Thickness or depth: 30
Other information
Mounting to wall: Nail
Detailing: None
Evidence of use in field (earth marking, cracking, staining, shrinkage): None
Surface insertion depth (into ground if apparent):N/A
Finish (varnish, paint, oiled, unfinished etc): Unfinished
Condition (cracked, paint peeling, woodwork, damage etc): Some cracking
Biographical information:
Second Lieutenant Harold Montagu Newnham Chatterton
CWGC entry Attached 8th Battalion RWS. The battalion war diary reads “ 17th June – The enemy made a gas attack against the 72nd and 73rd Bde fronts. It lasted from 12.20am-1.45am. The enemy did not leave his trenches. The 8th Queen’s Bn lost – 5 Officers and 78 Other Ranks as casualties.” Chatterton is listed as having been killed by ‘gas effects’.
Survey and photographs courtesy of Andy Arnold
Date of survey: 21/8/16
Are you interested in original grave/memorial markers still in France, Belgium etc? There is an excellent one in the church at Gavrelle to the men of the Hood Battalion who died there in April 1917.
Your excellent project has been mentioned on the Great War Forum (http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/) but it might be worth highlighting it more if you in order to spread the coverage.
I see there is an entry for All Saints Church in Sanderstead, Surrey (close to me) for
Second Lieutenant Harold Montagu Newnham Chatterton who died from the effects of gas. Interestingly the man in charge of the Royal Engineers Company that developed Britain’s gas masks in WW1 (Lt-Col Edward Harrison, CMG, DSO) also lived in Sanderstead and would almost certainly have attended the same church. A link to his story is below:-
http://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/story/lieutenant-colonel-edward-frank-harrison-cmg-dso-chemist-and-sandersteads-unsung-hero/