Peace Memorial Park, Long Street - Wigston Magna
World War I, World War II
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ContributePark opened 1921. Includes tennis courts, pavilion and sensory garden which contains WMP1269 and WMP1360 and has various herbs with accompanying plaques, and two purple brass plaques with WW1 and WW2 names (nowy headed on black granite tablets featuring a dove of peace with olive branch in its beak against green background within the nowy head). Inside front entrance has wooden totem pole with carved doves(?) and enscribed with "peace". Pavilion room includes information board (locked at time of visit). Information boards around site all have messages of peace at base, including plaques accompanying herbs within sensory garden. Also includes curved bench with five panels mounted on supports rising from its back detailing the history of the site in five stages (geological history, medieval period, 19th Century, 1921 and 1996) and another information board sited within entrance also gives a historical background. Temporary plaque added on Remembrance Day 2010 for Post-1945 names
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Peace Memorial Park, Long Street - Wigston Magna
Grid Reference: SP6051898893
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Inscription Reads
THOSE FROM THE PARISH OF WIGSTON MAGNA
WHO DIED IN THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS
1914-18
[NAMES]
1939-45
[NAMES]
"FOR YOUR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY"
LET US ALSO REMEMBER THOSE FROM THE PARISH OF WIGSTON MAGNA WHO DIED IN THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS
1914-18
[NAMES]
1939-45
[NAMES]
THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD:
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
PLAQUE PAID FOR BY DONATIONS AND THE ROTARY CLUB OF WIGSTON
LET US ALSO REMEMBER THOSE FROM THE
PARISH OF WIGSTON MAGNA WHO DIED IN
THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY SINCE 1945
INDIA (1945-48)
PALESTINE (1945-48)
MALAYA (1948-60)
KOREA (1950-57)
SUEZ CANAL ZONE (1951-54)
KENYA (1952-60)
CYPRUS (1955-59)
SUEZ (1956)
BORNEO (1962-66)
VIETNAM (1962-75)
ADEN (1955-67)
RADFAN (1955-67)
OMAN, DHOFAR (1969-76)
NORTHERN IRELAND (1969-)
[NAME]
FALKLANDS WAR (1982)
GULF WAR (1991)
BOSNIA (1992)
KOSOVA (1999)
SIERA LEONE (2000)
AFGHANISTAN (2001-)
[NAME]
IRAQ (2003-)
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE
SUN AND IN THE MORNING. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.