Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Town
- Campton
- County
- Bedfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16th December 1947
Attended by: DANVERS OSBORN - Dedicated
Date: 16th December 1947
Attended by: RECTOR OF CAMPTON - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 1702
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Current location
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All Saints Church
Gravenhurst Road
Campton
Mid Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire
SG17 5NY
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 12995 38073
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Stone tablet engraved in black and mounted on a second stone tablet. Stone shelf below bearing glazed pottery vase with inscription
- Inscription
- Plaque: GIVE GLORY TO GOD FOR / (NAMES) / WHO GAVE THIER LIVES FOR GOD, / KING AND COUNTRY IN THE CAUSE / OF FREEDOM DURING THE WORLD WAR / 1929 - 1945 / "THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT / ARE LEFT GROW OLD: / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR / THE YEARS CONDEMN. / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN / THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM" Vase: "IN THE MORNING / AND IN THE EVENING / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN / WE WILL REMEBER THEM"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Burnage, Maurice
Godfrey, Cyril
Osborn, Peter Stanley Howard
Scotney, Cecil
Taylor, Ronald
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: forename
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 810MM, width 600MM
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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