St Michael's Churchyard Wall - Diseworth
World War I
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ContributeStone memorial set within granite shrine on churchyard wall, to the left hand side of the churchyard entrance. It comprises a vertical extension to the churchyard wall, forming a shrine of stone rubble construction, which has a triangular pedimented central column, with lower, sloping wings. Above main panel small recessed tablet with heraldic crest, bearing the motto 'Souvent me souvient', a French phrase meaning 'often I remember' or 'think of me often'.
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St Michael's Churchyard Wall - Diseworth
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Inscription Reads
1914 1918
IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE DISEWORTH MEN WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR, AND AS A THANKOFFERING TO GOD FOR THE SAFE
RETURN OF SO MANY, THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED: FOUR OF THE CHURCH
BELLS WERE RECAST AND REHUNG: A FIFTH BELL WAS ADDED.
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