"A Corner of a Foreign Field"`

Submit a new image

Reference WMO/289539

Address:

Near St Thomas a Becket of Canterbury Church

Northlew

EX20 3NJ

England

Open large map
Edit memorial name, location & address
Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Garden
Materials:
  • Flora and Fauna Grass
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Large raised bed of grass and poppies contained within a wooden planter. Within the bed is an interpretation panel including Rupert Brooke's poem 'The soldier'. The address provided is that of the church, but the photograph suggests that it is the nearby village square, which is used as a car park.
Edit memorial details
Report this condition update

View more details
Report this condition update

View more details

As a conservation charity which gives grants War Memorials Trust can support repair and conservation works that follow best conservation practice. Grants are awarded from funds raised by the charity so money available is limited and is therefore focused on eligible war memorials.

War Memorials Trust’s Definition of a war memorial for funding purposes helpsheet explains which war memorials are eligible and ineligible for funding.

As a charity, War Memorials Trust relies on voluntary donations and every contribution, no matter how large or small, makes a really big difference to our work. Your donation will help protect and conserve war memorials for future generations so please support War Memorials Trust’s work.

If I should die, think only this of me:/ That there is some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England. There shall be/ In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;/ A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,/ Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;/ A body of England's, breathing English air,/ Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home./ And think, this heart, all evil shed away,/ A pulse in the eternal mind, no less/ Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;/ Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;/ And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,/ In hearts at peace, under an English heaven./ This corner of a foreign field was inspired by the/ above poem, using grass seed from Flanders and/ edged with the Northlew Poppy./ When you look upon this green grass, tell your/ children what honour there is in peace.

Information Required

Information Required

Information Required

Information Required

Information Required

Information Required

Information Required