St Mary's Church WW2 Plaque

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Reference WMO/285124

Address:

St Mary's Church

Front Street

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DL2 3NH

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Tablet 5 feet high x 2 feet wide with raised border. At top edge is a chevron design in half relief. At the bottom is a swirled pattern. The names are listed on the main panel, with above each name a regimental badge (see below) raised in half relief and painted in full colour. There is a cross incised at the bottom. The lettering is Roman capitals. The badges are described as follows: (a) H.M.S. Neptune, cruiser, launched 1933, sank in the Mediterranean 1941 with loss of 766 lives; (b) H.M.S. Galatea, cruiser, launched 1934, sunk in the Mediterranean 1941 with loss of 470 lives; (c) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; (d) Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; (e) R.A.F. for Aircraftsman 2nd Class Volunteer Reserve, who is buried in the local cemetery. (f) Ship with seven oars intended to be Ulysses which represents the seven-man crew of a Lancaster bomber which sets sail when need arises. 626 squadron here, of Lancasters 1 and 111, was formed in 1943 at Wickenby in Lincolnshire and disbanded in 1945. Last three missions dropped supplies to the Dutch at Rotterdam, and brought back British POWs and British troops from Italy.
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In grateful / memory of / (names)/ who gave their/ lives in the war / 1939-1945

Leslie Cambrai Bowron/ Lancelot Fogg Elliott/ Percival Forrest/ Arthur Henry Hodgson/ John Cecil Hartley/ George Stanley Lowson

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