St Mark's Anglican Church, Lepperton, was opened on 10 May 1900. On 26 November 1920 a set of three war memorial stained glass windows was unveiled in the apse (just two days before the dedication of the nearby Lepperton war memorial). One of the windows is inscribed 'In loving memory of the men of Lepperton who fell in the Great War.'The others list the names respectively of R. Paul, T. Stewart, S. West, J. Jeffery and Arnold Bernard; and of H. Lepper, W. Harold, A. Cartwright, Bert Luke, T. Feakins and G. Payne.
There is also a plaque in the church in memory of one of the above-named: Lieutenant Harper M. Lepper, M.C., of the British Army's Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action at Sanna-y-at in Mesopotamia on 9 April 1916.
See: 'Local and General', Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1920, p. 4; Peter Wilson, 'Even the Dogs Have Forgotten to Bark': The Events and People of Lepperton, Sentry Hill and Waiongona, New Plymouth, 2012, pp. 7-4.
Images: Ken Watkin, 2024
Text: Bruce Ringer, 2024