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St Saviour, Jersey



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.

St Saviour's  Garden of Remembrance

The inscription on the Memorial reads:

Paroisse De St Sauveur
A La Mémoire Des Paroissiens
Morts Pour La Patrie

St Saviour's Memorial

St Saviour's Parish Memorial

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.