Installation of Electric Light and Organ Blower was dedicated by The Right Reverend Bishop Vernon on 6th December 1952.
C Aylon Williams
Vicar
R Baxter
Church wardens
Rosina M Williams
Extracts from J E Smith's typed notes, now deposited at Northamptonshire Record Office (NRO) Ref: 285P/272-301 Rushden Church presented to Chelveston Church 'Old Lectern' - the Base of this was made out of the oak of Rushden Church at Restoration. They had it about the end of Jany 1908.
Two Benches in the churchyard are engraved:
In memory of our Good Friend - William (Billy) Donald of the 305th Bomb Group - 1946-2008
In Memory of Marion Hoffman 1926-1986
The Font
Private George Herbert Corbett
14459 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
Died 15th September 1916
Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial
Pier and Face 7D and 8D
Private George E Farr
20032 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
Son of Charles Farr
Died 8th February 1916
Aged 22 years
Commemorated at
Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-Darmentieres
Grave I. C.10.
Private Walter C Hulatt
200974 1/4th Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 28th November 1917
Commemorated at Ramleh War Cemetery
Grave B.72.
Private Frank Morris (served as Burrows)
29492 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
Son of Job and Elizabeth Morris
Died 9th April 1918
Commemorated at Premart British Cemetery
Grave IV. B.23.
Private Harry Morris
48614 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Son of Alfred and Emma Morris
Died 31st July 1917
Aged 19 years
Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Panel 6 and 8
Sergeant Stanley Eric Odell
3968060 4th Battalion Welch Regiment
Son of James H & Selena Odell
Husband of Betty Odell
Died 25th February 1945
Aged 25 years
Commemorated at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
The War Memorial Cross in the Churchyard
This Plaque in memory of men of Chelveston cum Caldecott
Who died in the First World War and to whom
the nearby Cross was erected in 1920
George Herbert Corbett
George Farr
Walter Hulatt
Frank Morris
Harry Morris
“Death is Swallowed up in Victory in Undying Remembrance of the Men of Chelveston who fell in the Great War 1914-1918”
And in the Second World War 1939-1945 we remember
Stanley Eric Odell
"For our tomorrow they gave their today"
The Plaque on the outer wall of the Church
The Rushden Echo, 7th December 1917
Forty Boys from Chelveston are now with the Colours.
