Flax Bourton Church of St Michael and All Angels - WW1

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Church of St Michael and All Angels

Flax Bourton

BS48 3PY

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 Bronze
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Cast bronze rectangular plaque dedicated to parishioners of the church who lost their lives during the First World War. The plaque is located inside the church on the south wall of the nave on the right hand side of the porch entrance.
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GIVE PEACE IN OUR TIME OR LORD/ BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER/ THAT FIGHTETH FOR US/ BUT ONLY THOU O GOD/ WHEN IN THE YEAR OF SALVATION, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN/ THE CALL CAME TO ENGLAND TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST THE GERMAN TYRANNY/ WHO HAD ATTACKED FRANCE AND INVADED BELGIUM, THE MEN OF FLAX BOURTON/ WERE NOT SLOW IN ANSWERING THE CALL./ FOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OF WARFARE, IN WHICH THE FORCES OF GREAT BRITAIN,/ FRANCE AND BELGIUM WERE JOINED BY THOSE OF MOST OF THE CIVILISED NATIONS/ OF EUROPE AND ASIA, AS WELL AS BY THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/ IT PLEASED ALMIGHTY GOD TO GRANT SUCH SUCCESS TO OUR ARMS THAT OUR/ RUTHLESS FOES AND THEIR ALLIES WERE CRUSHED./ TO HIS MERCY ONLY WHICH PROTECTED THE GREAT FLEET THAT GIRDED OUR/ COAST AND SET OUT AND DESTROYED THE HOSTILE SHIPS ON FAR OFF SEAS/ AND GAVE COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO OUR ARMIES WHO FOUGHT IN FRANCE/ AND BELGIUM, IN ITALY AND TURKEY, IN AFRICA, PALESTINE AND MESOPOTAMIA IS/ IT DUE THAT DURING THOSE YEARS NO ENEMY WAS ABLE TO SET FOOT ON OUR SHORES./ WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT WAS HE ALONE WHO GAVE TO OUR KING AND HIS COUNSELLORS,/ HIS ADMIRALS AND GENERALS AND TO ALL OUR LEADERS THE UNDERSTANDING AND/ WISDOM, THE PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE WHICH BROUGHT OUR NATION THROUGH/ THE DARK NIGHT OF TRIAL AND SORROW TO THE DAWN OF PEACE TO HIM ALONE/ BE THE GLORY./ IN HONOUR OF THE THIRTY-ONE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR,/ AND ESPECIALLY TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR THEIR KING/ AND COUNTRY, THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THEIR GRATEFUL FRIENDS IN THE YEAR/ ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE/ (NAMES)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

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