Village Hall - Great Bowden

World War I

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  • Listing Status: Not Individually Listed
  • District: Harborough
  • Parish: Great Bowden

White marble plaque with brown lettering and mottled brown marble frame. 42 x 25 inches, 60kg weight. Names recorded in four columns sectioned off in gold. UKNIWM advises moved from Congregational Chapel when converted for residential use. Held in wooden and glass display case. The tablets were unveiled on Sunday 21 March 1948 by the Lord Cromwell and dedicated by Canon R Chalmers, on the same day the memorial plaques in the parish church and the seats on the green were unveiled.

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View Further Details Memorial Type:Tablet or Plaque or Board Ref: WMP0475 Other Designation: N/A UKNIWM Ref: 55037 Information Sources: DK, RC Website Links: http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grant...

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Village Hall - Great Bowden
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Inscription Reads

THIS TABLET
IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS
PARISH WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR
1914-1919
[NAMES]
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
ECCLUS XLIV 14

Casualties Listing

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Name Rank Unit Batt Died Sturgis - Samuel Harry Private Somerset Light Infantry 1/5 12/04/1918 Sturgis - Benjamin William Private 18th Hussars, Queen Mary's Own 18 19/08/1918 Tack - Thomas Lance Corporal Northamptonshire Regiment 5 30/11/1917 Thompson - George Private Machine Gun Corps 24/04/1918 West - George Henry Private Leicestershire Regiment 1 18/09/1918
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