Memorial

Oakridge

Oakridge war memorials in Oakridge

Source: Jon Webber

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Village Centre, Junction Of The Broadway, Oakridge Lynch, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 7NP, England

SO 91476 03537

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Type of Memorial: Fountain
WMR Reference Number: 20957
Description: Drinking fountain within a walled enclosure. Four plaques are mounted above the water tap.
Inscription: Top Plaque: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ (Names)/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1939-45/ INTO THY HANDS O LORD Second Plaque: In memory of MABEL DEARMER/ who went from Oakridge the place she loved best/ to give help in Serbia where she died of fever/ at Kragujevatz on July 11th 1915 aged 43, and of/ CHRISTOPHER DEARMER/ who died of wounds at Suvla Bay in Gallipoli/ on October 6th 1915 aged 21/ Proud of the war all glorious went the son./ Loathing the war all mournful went the mother./ Each had the same wage when the day was done./ Tell me was either braver than the other./ They slept in mire who went so comely ever/ Then when you wash let the thought of them abide/ They knew the parching thirst of wounds & fever./ Here when you drink remember them who died. Third Plaque: THESE OAKRIDGE MEN/ ALSO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ (Names) Bottom Plaque: ALSO IN MEMORY OF/(NAME)/PILOT OF HURRICANE P3271/WHO GAVE HIS LIFE ON JULY 25TH 1940/WHEN HIS PLANE CRASHED NEAR LILLYHORN CROSSROADS/WHILST ENGAGED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF/AN ENEMY'S JUNKERS 88

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 21
Died: 21
Information shown: year died,place of death,forename,age of death,additional

War: Military Service
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: surname,year died,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,additional

Sponsor Type: private
Sponsored By: Commissioned in 1917 by Rev. Dr. Percy Dearmer in memory of his wife Mabel, a nurse, who died of fever in Serbia in July 1915 and his son Christopher who died of wounds at Suva Bay, Gallipoli in October, 1915. Plaques to commemorate men of the village of Oakridge who died in the two world wars were added later.