Memorial to the dead

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Reference WMO/254713

Address:

St Michael's Church

High Street

Toseland

PE19 6RX

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 Brass
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Nave, North-West wall. Brass plaque screwed into a dark brown painted wood board, rectangular, c60cm wide x 50cm high, landscape orientation. The inscription is set inside a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns with decorative crosses at the corners, where the screws are centrally driven in to fix it to the backboard. It commemorates the four men (out of c.23 who enlisted), who died in the First World War. The Minutes of the Toseland Parish Meeting February 24, 1920 records a decision to ask for a Faculty from the Diocese of Ely to commission and install this memorial - it also records that the initial idea was that the brass plaque should be mounted on a marble slab. NB. At present the date for the installation of this memorial plaque, and who paid for it to be made and installed, are unknown.
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Header: To the glory of God and in honoured memory of those of this parish that fell in the Great War 1914-1918. The 4 names are inscribed in 2 columns. Footer: R.I.P.

Column 1 Samuel Hedge, 8th Beds Regiment Reginald Manning , 1st Beds Regiment Column 2 George Meeks, Beds Regiment Edward Wheal, RGG (Royal Grenadier Guards)

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