Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Daventry
- Town
- Winwick
- County
- Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 37382
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Current location
Memorial tablet located on wall of north chapel.
St. Michael & All Angels Church
"Church Lane"
Winwick
Daventry
Northamptonshire
NN6 7PD
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 62579 73875
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wall mounted landscape orientated grey marble tablet mounted onto a streaked black marble backboard. Multi-coloured family crest at top centre of tablet, regimental crest at bottom centre. Incised inscription infilled with gold coloured paint. Battle honours incised as "ribbon scrolls" around edge of black marble backboard.
- Inscription
- Scroll : VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS / Main inscription : IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF/ GEOFFREY STEWART/ CAPTAIN IN THE 1ST BATTALION OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS/ OF WINWICK MANOR/ BORN AT BINFIELD IN BERKSHIRE OCTOBER 28TH 1878/ KILLED IN ACTION AT GIVENCHY IN FLANDERS DECEMBER 22ND 1914/ AGED 36 YEARS/ "GREATER LOVE HAT NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS" / Centre bottom : NULLI SECUNDUS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Stewart, Geoffrey
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,place of birth,manner of death,age of death,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Grey
- Backboard
- 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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