1/4th Battalion Border Regiment WW1 India, Mesopotamia and Burma

plaque - Taken by Patricia Hughes 26 Aug 2018

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Overall View of this and WMO/272869 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 31 Aug 2022

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Overall View of this plaque - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 31 Aug 2022

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Column 1 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 31 Aug 2022

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Column 2 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 31 Aug 2022

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The base - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 31 Aug 2022

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Reference WMO/138641

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Holy Trinity Church

Kirkland

Kendal

LA9 5AL

England

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Status: On original site

Type: Non freestanding

Location: Internal

Setting: Inside a building - public/private

Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet

Materials:

Metal Metal (any)

Lettering: Raised

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)

About the memorial: Plaque commemorating those who died in India and Mesopotamia (left) and India and Burma (right), on the wall between the Regimental Chapel and the adjacent Chapel of Our Lady. According to the newspaper report of the unveiling, the two plaques (the other one being WMO/272869) originally hung on different pillars; on an unknown date, they were remounted, one above the other, on one pillar.

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Penrith Observer, Tuesday 13 September 1921, page 5 printed a lengthy report of the ceremony to lay up of the Colours and unveil the memorials. The report opened: 'KING'S COLOURS FOR BORDER REGIMENT. There was an impressive ceremony at Kendal on Tuesday afternoon, when the King's Colours were presented to the 2/4th Border Regiment (T.F.), and were laid up in the Parish Church. In conjunction with this ceremony, memorial tablets, to the memory of the men of the 1/4th and 2/4th Border Regiments who fell in the war, were also unveiled in the church...' After further details regarding the laying up of the King's Colours, the report continued: 'THE UNVEILING OF THE MEMORIALS. After the colour had been laid up, the memorial service, at which the tablets were unveiled by Colonel Weston, M.P., was proceeded with. The service, which was of an impressive character, commenced with the singing of the 23rd Psalm, and was followed by appropriate prayers and the anthem "And lo! a mighty host" (Spohr). The Bishop, clergy, and the principal military officers then left their places and walked to the west end of the church to the pillars on which the memorial tablets had been placed. Colonel Weston, before unveiling the memorials, delivered an address. After thanking Colonels Davidson and Halton for the honour they had done him in asking him to unveil the tablets, he said that the 4th Battalion before the war was composed of men who had trained themselves to be ready to defend their country at home, and there was a great deal due due to them for that. When the war broke out there was a great rush to the colours, and so many men came forward to join the 4th Border that it was necessary to divide the Battalion; and when Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers for service abroad the first and second 4th Border gave a very prompt reply, and said they were ready to go wherever they were wanted. They hoped they would be ordered to France, and when the orders came that the 1/4th had to go to Burmah and the 2/4th to India, he knew that it was a source of keen disappointment to both Battalions. They knew, however, that it was their duty to go where it was considered they were most wanted; but they little thought that they would be kept out in the East five years...' The report quoted the rest of his speech, before continuing: 'Colonel Weston then unveiled the tablets, adding that they not only revered the memories of the men commemorated, but sympathised with those who had been left behind, to whom it must be a satisfaction to know that the lives of their loved ones had not been given in vain. Colonel Davidson placed a laurel wreath at the foot of the pillar on which the tablet to the 1/4th men is placed, and Colonel Halton placed another at the foot of that on which is placed the memorial to the men of the 2/4th Battalion. The memorials were next dedicated by the Bishop, after which the "Last Post" was sounded by four buglers from the Castle, and the Depot Band played the Dead March. The memorial tablets are of bronze and are quire simple in character. Each is surmounted by the crest of the regiment, and contains the names of those who died on service. The tablets were designed by Mr J.W. Benwell, Carlisle, and contain the names of officers and men. After the singing of the hymn "For all the Saints who from their labours rest", the Bishop of Carlisle, having conducted the dedication service, spoke of wars which we had to wage at home. Drunkenness and lust, he said, killed more men annually than ever the Germans succeeded in doing, and there were vices in a man's own heart, and sometimes in his own household, that were more dangerous than any foreign enemy. After the Bishop's address "Abide with me" was sung, and his Lordship having pronounced the Blessing the service closed with the National Anthem'.

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1914-1919 / 1/4TH BATTALION / THE BORDER / REGIMENT / IN MEMORY OF / (names) / WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/ (names) / WHO DIED IN INDIA / (names) / WHO DIED IN BURMA

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Column 1- CAPT DA SPROTT/LIEUT MM WILSON/SGT J KIDD DCM/CPL T CRABTREE/LCPL H PARK/PTE J BOUCH/ PTE G BOWNESS/PTE WJ CARTWRIGHT/PTE W COATES/PTE JC GARDINER Column 2- PTE W GRAHAM/PTE T HOWE/PTE W IVISON/PTE HC MCCUMISKEY/PTE A NEWBOLD/PTE E NEWBOLD/ PTE R ROBERTSON/PTE RW STRICKLAND/PTE R TAYLOR/PTE E WILSON/ WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE; Column 1- SGT RW LANGLEY/SGT R WALKER/ASGT R HARPER/PTE F BUTTERWORTH/PTE W HANDLEY/ PTE J HAUGH/PTE R JOHNSTON Column 2- PTE R KIRKMAN/PTE WB LAWRENCE/PTE E ROBERTSON/PTE JB STUART/PTE J SYMES/PTE H WILSON/ WHO DIED IN INDIA; Column 1- PTE J FRIEND/PTE F JACKSON/PTE WJ KENNEDY; Column 2- PTE J PENNINGTON/PTE I REAY/PTE G TAYLOR/ WHO DIED IN BURMA

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