Lieutenant Henry Unwin Sowter


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Reference WMO/292724

Address:

St Alkmund's Church

Church Drive

Duffield

DE56 4BA

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 Limestone
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A white marble tablet in a limestone frame. The plain oblong tablet has an incised inscription in upright capital block lettering coloured black. The tablet is surrounded by a plain limestone frame which has decorative embellishments above and below. At the top is a moulded cornice surmounted by a swan's neck pediment bearing acanthus leaves and swirls containing rosettes, all in low relief. At the foot is an inverted moulded cornice and a recurved panel with the badge of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment in relief at the centre and carved heads of cherubs to each side. It is towards the east end of the south wall of the south aisle.
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ UNWIN HENRY ETCHES SOWTER,/ LIEUTENANT, THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS,/ WHO DIED ON APRIL 23RD. 1917,/ OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION ON THE/ PREVIOUS DAY AT ISTABULAT, MESOPOTAMIA,/ AGED 24,/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." S.JOHN XV.13.

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