Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 25 April 1915. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 8.

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916 Volume 2 Page 289-290:

2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR JOWITT, 1st. BATTN. THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGT., was the son of the late Joseph Jowitt, of Tipping Street, Manchester.
He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on the 17th January, 1878, and after a commercial education he enlisted as a Private in the Warwickshire Regiment at the age of seventeen, and served through the South African War, for which he received the Queen's medal with five clasps. After serving in the ranks for nineteen years, 2nd Lieutenant Jowitt received his commission in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in December, 1914, and was posted to the 1st Battalion. He went with his battalion to Flanders for active service in the war with Germany, and was killed in action on the 25th April, 1915, near Ypres.
2nd Lieutenant Jowitt's Company Commander gave the following account of the circumstances under which he met his death : "We were to attack a wood : between us and the wood was a farm which we were told was unheld. I was told to extend the men close to the farm by the Commanding Officer, and did so. While doing so the enemy opened on us from the supposed unheld farm. We ran to some dead ground within twenty yards of their trench, and were under cover. Your husband charged with his platoon, but they were all killed except one man. He fell with his arms on the parapet of their trench, and the men say that the Germans Pulled him into their trench, but I did not see this myself. Am very much afraid there is no doubt your husband was killed, as he was so very close, and must have been hit more than once. A magnificent soldier, officers and men were all devoted to him."
His Colonel wrote : "He was the bravest of the brave, if he had to die he died as he would have wished to do—bravely leading his men, who followed him everywhere."
2nd Lieutenant Jowitt married Ethel Sarah, daughter of William Harwood, of Leamington Spa, and left one son--William Joseph, born in December,

Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 1 July 1916. Aged 22. Son of Thomas and Ada Annie Sharp, of "Oakdale," Leamington Spa. Buried in LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE, Somme, France. Plot X. Row E. Grave 3.

Within the church there is a stained glass window with two lights and tracery above depicting a kneeling soldier being blessed by Christ with a commemorative inscription arranged in a box at the base of the left-hand light. The inscription reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
& IN LOVING MEMORY
OF 2ND LT. L.O. SHARP
LINCOLN REGT.
KILLED IN ACTION/
IN FRANCE
JULY 1ST 1916.

either William Alfred SMITH, Rifleman 4768, 1st Battalion, Rifle brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). Died 17 April 1917. Born and resident Leamington, enlisted Warwick. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 9.

or William Alfred SMITH, Guardsman 17185, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Gaurds. Died of wounds 16 November 1916. Aged 20. Born Leamington, enlisted Caterham. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Smith, of Club House, Blockley, Worcestershire. Native of Leamington. Buried in GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE, Somme, France. Plot II. Row E. Grave 40.

possibly Reginald WARD, Private 20852, 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 7 August 1917. Born and enlisted Leamington, Wrwickshire. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 8.