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Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Douglas
Town
Douglas
County
Isle of Man
Country
Isle of Man
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Maker
T H Royston (Mason)
Ceremony
  • Dedicated
    Date: 26 June 1921
    Attended by: Revd F W Henshall, Circuit Minister
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
28283

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Current location

Trinity Methodist Church
Bucks Road
Douglas
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM1 3HH
Isle of Man

OS Grid Ref: SC 37803 76038
Denomination: Methodist

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Previous locations
  • Bucks Road Primitive Methodist Church
    Bucks Road
    Douglas
    Douglas
    Isle of Man
    Isle of Man

    OS Grid Ref: Undefined
    Denomination: Primitive Methodist
Description
White Marble tablet with incised lettering in a Black marble frame
Inscription
IN HONOURED MEMORY/ OF/ THE MEN OF THIS CHURCH/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (NAMES)/ "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, AND IN/ THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Bridson, T H
Craine, J A
Cretney, J C
Fayle, D H
Fayle, F E
Karran, A A
Wallace, T
Wallace, W A
Wilson, G S
See details for all 9 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 9
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 9
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, initals of forenames
    Order of information: surname
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble - White
  • Frame
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble - Black
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • Manx Quarterly Issue 27, 1921- Buck's Road (Douglas) Primitive Methodist Church. The members of the congregation of Bucks-road Primitive Methodist Church (Douglas), flocked in hundreds on Sunday, June 26th, 1921, to their place of devotion, in order publicly to testify to the enormity of their debt and gratitude to the nine members of their church who sacrificed their all in order that the fair shores of England might remain undesecrated by the ruthless foot of the invader. The occasion was the dedication oaf a memorial, and singularly enough it coincided with the last appearance in the pulpit, as circuit minister, of the Rev. F. W. Henshall. The sacred edifice was well filled, while the service itself was most impressive and inspiring. The unveiling ceremony, which was performed by Mr Henshall, who was wall acquainted with all the nine fallen men, was carried out with a silence that was most solemnising. The inscription on the tablet was afterwards read as follows :- IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918. T. H. BRIDSON. J. C. CRETNEY, J.A.CRAINE D. H. FAYLE, F. E. FAYLE, A.A. KARRAN T. WALLACE W. A. WALLACE, G. S. WILSON. "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them." Before the the congregation resumed their seats, Mr Councilor Quirk, one of the trustees, laid a wreath before the tablet. The order of service was as follows:- Opening hymn, Kipling's "Recessional " ; prayer and Lord's Prayer (Rev. W. C. Russell) ; hymn, " My country, 'tis of thee " ; reading of Scripture, Rev. vii, from the 9th verse (Rev. F. W. Henshall) ; anthem, " Crossing the Bar " (F. C. Maker); addresses, Revs H. H. Woodward, M.C., hon. C.F., and W. C. Russell ; hymn, " Give me the wings of faith "; Dedication of the Memorial Tablet ; prayer (Rev F. W. Henshall) ; address, Rev. F. W . Henshall ; choral song, " The Last Post " (C. Villiers Stanford), by the choir ; hymn, " For all Thy Saints" ; Benediction and Vesper. Mr Woodward expatiated at length on the sacrifices made by the nine men whose names they were commemorating, and drew lurid pictures of the trials they underwent. In the far distant future, he concluded, when even that church had become a 'heap of ruins, and the ravages of time had erased those nine names from the tablet, they would still be retained on a far greater tablet - the Lamb's Book of Life. The names on this tablet would, however, continue to speak to several generations of worshippers within those walls. What would be the message? That freedom from the yoke, from the invaders, was ours, because they died to secure it. That the whole of the future was ours, because they shed their blood to make it so. No matter how we may succeed in the future, ended Mr Woodward, we shall never be out of our debt to the nine men whose names are chiselled on that tablet. Mr Russell said that one of the most wonderful things in this life was that nothing was complete in itself. The Apostle Paul had told them that in various ways. He had told them that they were members of one another; that no man lived to himself, and that no man died to himself. Paul could have made that more comprehensive, and still have been quite true. Not only true in things material, but in history. The past was related to the present, the present was related to the. future. Every day and every moment was linked up with every moment of every other day. Where it would end they would not know until they had got behind the Veil; so all they could do was to mark the tendencies and observe the lines of advance, and the direction in which the things were going. And it was their duty to pull along in that direction, which they believed was the right one. It was given to this generation of ours to witness one of the biggest events that history had ever known. Bigger sacrifices for the sake of real and true ideals had never been known before. They saw the beginning and they saw those who went, and, so far as their lives were concerned, completed their work. But the work of those who were spared to return was not completed, there was still something to be dome. Though things had not turned out as they had promised, their feet, thank God, were set in the right direction. Those who had led the way beckoned them to follow on. As they looked down the arches of years, there were many signposts showing them to the way. What they, were going to do that night was to erect another milestone pointing to the City of God. Mr Henshall said that the stone would always be eloquent. It would speak to them with the highest kind of eloquence. It was bound to something beyond itself. That something was an act of great sacrifice - a sacrifice that would speak to them through all the years. It would speak to them of many mercies vouchsafed during those critical years. It would speak to them of miracles and wonderful manifestations of resource. The stone would show them something of the cost of their liberty. Liberty had always to be won at the cost of blood. The war had been said to, have been a war to end war. It was up to them to see that that was so. It was up to them to make a resolve that they would see to it that never again would war of any sort blot the fair landscape, and that there world be peace to the end of the earth. If there was to be peace on earth and goodwill towards men, they must be done with all hate and bitterness. The memorial, which takes the form of a white marble tablet, enclosed in a brown. granite border, mounted on grey granite, is of handsome design, and is the work of Mr T. H. Royston, Peel-road.
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