St Nicholas' Church - Fleckney
World War I, World War II
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ContributeWhite marble tablet with lettering in black and raised mottled alabaster border, in large moulded Ketton stone frame with alabaster angel above in broken pediment and WW2 names added on separate tablet below in 1996. Originally cost 100 pounds. Unveiled 10 March 1920 by Sir Keith Fraser, Bart. MP; dedicated by the Vicar Rev AS Coleman.
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St Nicholas' Church - Fleckney
Grid Reference: SP6463893476
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Inscription Reads
IN GRATEFUL
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
FLECKNEY WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR
KING AND COUNTRY IN
THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919
[NAMES]
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
THIS TABLET WAS ENLARGED IN
REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO
MADE THE SAME SUPREME
SACRIFICE IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR
[NAMES]
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
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