Youlbury Scout Memorial

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Reference WMO/92400

Address:

Grounds of Old Youlbury House (now demolished)

Boar's Hill

Youlbury

OX1 0HD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Sundial
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Composite memorial containing a seven feet high round-arched stone structure supported by two fluted pillars, housing a vertically mounted sundial within the arch. The memorial is flanked either side by a brick and stone wall, at each end of which, is a square pillar. Main incised inscription beneath sundial and on a central tablet. Names are incised onto coping stones along top of wall.
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Under sundial : COUNT THE SUNNY HOUSE / ALONE / 1914 - 1918 Central tablet : IN LOVING MEMORY OF A YOUTHFUL BAND / WHO PLAYED AS CHILDREN / AMID THESE WOODS AND HEATHS / AND SHARED AT YOULBURY IN JOYOUS HOURS / IN THE GREAT WAR / FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND MANKIND / THEY FELL BEFORE THEIR TIME / BUT WHEREVER THEY NOW LIE / HERE THEY ARE NEVER FAR Left pillar : NOT FOR THEIR MOTHERLAND ALONE / THEIR YOUTH, THEIR LOVE, THEIR LIFE THEY SPENT / THE GLORIOUS HALO ROUND THEIR BROWS / SHINES IN A WIDER FIRMAMENT Right pillar : THEIRS WAS A LOFTIER SACRIFICE / FOR AFTER YEARS AND ALL MANKIND / THAT FOR THE NATIONS AS WITH MEN / FAITH AND HUMANITY SHOULD BIND / THEY FOUGHT THAT WARS THEMSELVES SHOULD CEASE / AND THEY HAVE ENTERED INTO PEACE Top of the wall : (10 NAMES)

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