Long Buckby's Combined War Memorial, St.Lawrence's Churchyard, Long Buckby, Northants. - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

This combined war memorial is in the churchyard of St.Lawrence's Church in Long Buckby. It is shaped as a truncated obelisk on a plinth of two steps on a square base. Of the WWI memorial, each of the four panels is recessed within a border of foliage and each has a brass laurel wreath inserted into it at its top. Surmounting the whole is a rectangular block carved with swages and foliage. The main memorial inscription is a brass panel set into the north-facing side whilst the names are recorded on the other three sides as incisions into the stone faces.

WWII remembered are carved into the top step at the base on the north side beneath the main WWI memorial which reads:

                    IN
                 HONOURED
                  MEMORY
                    OF
                  THE MEN
                    OF
                LONG BUCKBY
                 WHO  GAVE
                THEIR LIVES
                 FOR THEIR
                  COUNTRY
                  IN  THE
                 GREAT WAR
                1914 – 1919
                 THEY DIED
               THAT WE MIGHT
                    LIVE

The names of WWI dead are, from the west side and working to south then east are:

               Hopkin.M.
              Allen.Frank.
              Allen.George.
             Anderson.Robert.
              Amos.Cyril.J.
              Baker.Roland.
              Bishop.Harry.
             Bishop.Edward.
              Bounds.Bert.
             Bounds.George.
             Blincow.Albert.
            Bradshaw.Harold.
            Buswell.Walter.C.
            Burnham.Wallace.A.
             Bull.Sidney.O.J.
               Carr.Harry.
               Carr.Edwin.
               Cooper.W.J.
              Green.Charles

            Years.Frederick W.
                Cook.Frank.
               Cross.Albert.
           Eaglestone.Ernest.O.
               Ewart.John.S.
           Goodman.Frederick.W.
              Hickman.Harry.
             Howes.William.E.
            Kightley.Herbert.
              Leaton.Harry.
             Lewis.Ernest.R.
              Major.Percy.G.
              Major.Herbert.
              Manning.Alfred.
              Mason.Arthur.A.
              Maycock.Percy.A.
              Maycock.Sidney.
               Lines.Walter.
              Marriott.Edward.

                Lack.A.W.
              Moore.William.
             Muddiman.Joseph.
             Muddiman.William.
             Muddiman.Wilfred.
               Norris.Frank.
             Norris.Harold.A.E.
               Norris.Walter.
                Ruston.Max.
             Tebbutt.Charles.E.
               Tonsley.John.
              Townsend.Frank.
             Townsend.Stephen.
               Walker.Ralph.
               West.Alfred.
               Willis.Frank.
              Maycock.Alfred.
              Tully.William.B.

The WWII dead remembered are:

                         1939 – 1945
            Thomas Atkinson.	        Rex Hill
            Donald Cobb.		George Maycock
            Charles Clues.		Harry West
            Alfred Harris		Eric York
            	      William John Dunkley

Private or Public Monument?: Other Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Long Buckby Village Council Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Physical Address of Monument: Church of St.Lawrence, 30 Church Street, Long Buckby, , Northamptonshire UK NN6 7QH Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed Website for this Monument: Not listed

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