St. Just-in-Penwith Church - WW2 Book of Remembrance


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Reference WMO/292713

Address:

St Just Church

Church Street

St Just in Penwith

TR19 7EZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
  • Other Other
  • Paper Paper
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Leather bound book with gold leaf title, on high quality heavyweight art paper. The title page has a drawing in ink of the St Just War Memorial Clock Tower (WMO/153373). The first page has a map of the world with a cross marking the place where each of the persons named was killed. Each of the 32 people commemorated has a full page devoted to them which contains short biographical details as well as details of the individuals war record, and the action in which they died. The book is left open in a display case with a black leather bookmark bearing the title of the book in gold, across the blank page. It is in a glass topped wooden display case inside the church below the war memorial window (WMO/153763) in the north wall.
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Title page: THE MEN OF THE PARISH OF / ST JUST-IN-PENWITH / PRO PATRIA / THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945 / I WITH UNCOVERED HEAD / I SALUTE THE SACRED DEAD / WHO WENT AND WHO RETURNED NOT - SAY NOT YOU / WE RATHER SEEM THE DEAD THAT STAYED BEHIND / BLOW TRUMPETS ALL YOUR EXULTATIONS BLOW! / FOR NEVER SHALL THEIR AUREOLED PRESENCE LACK / THEY CAME TRANSFIGURED BACK / SECURE FROM CHANGE IN THEIR HIGH HEARTED WAYS / BEAUTIFUL EVERMORE - AND WITH THE RAYS OF MORN / ON THEIR WHITE SHIELDS OF EXPECTION. / J. R. LOWELL

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