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Towcester Town Hall

Tour of St. Lawrence's Church, Towcester

Memorials commemorating the First and
Second World Wars


On the north wall of the north aisle are the war memorials The large plaque commemorates the men who lost their lives in the first world war. The smaller plaque commemorates the second world war. A memorial to the Boer war can be seen in the south aisle. There is also a First World War Roll of Honour.

  1914 - 18
War plaque 1914-1918   THIS BRONZE
WAS ERECTED TO THE
EVERLASTING HONOUR
AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING GOOD
AND TRUE MEN OF THE PARISH OF TOWCESTER WHO
LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 19

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
   
   
  1939 - 1945
War memorial 1939-1945   WITH PROUD THANKSGIVING
LET US REMEMBER THOSE WHO IN THE
SECOND GREAT WAR
WENT FORTH FROM THIS PARISH
AND DID NOT RETURN

RICHARD BLACKWELL. KENNETH ARTHUR BOYCE.
RALPH WELLS BUSHELL. ALBERT EDWARD CLAPTON.
JOSEPH HERBERT COLEMAN. HAROLD FURNESS.
SIDNEY THOMAS GARDNER. FREDK. SIDNEY HALLYBONE.
JOSEPH INKERMAN JOHNSON. WM. HEYGATE JACKSON STOPS.
FRANCIS PAUL SUTTON.

" GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"


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This page is from the Towcester and District Local History Society website.
Acknowledgements and a full list of sources and references can be found [here].
The section was last updated on 4th May 2007

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