HAWSTEAD WAR MEMORIAL

Hawstead Memorial Tablet

The monument is in the form of a black stone tablet on a decorative white backboard on the North wall of the nave of All Saints Church, Hawstead.
The tablet is about 55 cm high, 62cm wide and the backboard is about 1 metre high by 1.2 metre wide. Made by Messrs Hanchett of Bury St.Edmunds, it was unveiled on 22nd May 1921 by Captain Charles Fitzroy and dedicated by the Rector of Hawstead, the Reverend L. Mercer
Immediately below is a rectangular black stone tablet with one name from the 1939-1945 war.

The inscription reads
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GLORIOUSLY GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919

HERBERT BRINKLEY ALFRED GILL JOHN SCATES
HERBERT BOREHAM JOSEPH GILL JAMES SCATES
EDWARD FITZROY ALFRED HOWE ARTHUR WRIGHT
EDWARD FYSON JAMES MARSH FREDERICK WRIGHT
HAROLD PRATT

YE WHO LIVE ON IN ENGLAND'S PASTURES GREEN
REMEMBER US AND THINK WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939-1945
RAYMOND MASON

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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.

HAWSTEAD WAR MEMORIAL

go BACK to Hawstead home page

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.

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.