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    Memorial

    New Brighton WW1

    Altar

    Source: Stella Edwards

    1/17

    Current Location

    St Nicholas Church, Newport Avenue, New Brighton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH45 8QJ, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SJ 28885 93063

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    © WMR-2483

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    Type of Memorial
    Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
    WMR Reference Number
    2483
    Description
    Oak screen with bronze plaques either side bearing the names. Flanking the bronzes are four paintings of religious themes Paintings represent enlistment, war, death and glory, with appropriate quotations.
    Inscription
    OVER CENTRAL DOORS: VICTORY/ THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH/ US THE VICTORY THROUGH/ OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST/ 1 COR. XV.57/ PEACE/ HOW BEAUTIFUL, UPON THY/ MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET/ OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD/ TIDINGS, THAT PUBLISHETH PEACE/ ISAIAH 1.II.7./ HOPE/ AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND/ A NEW EARTH; FOR THE FIRST/ HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH/ WERE PASSED AWAY/REV. XXI. 1 LEFT OF DOOR: A.D.1914-1919 REMEMBER WITH THANKSGIVING THE MEN WHO IN THESE YEARS OF WAR STOOD BETWEEN THE HOMELAND AND THE ENEMY RIGHT OF DOOR: THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO RETURNED NOT AGAIN ARE HERE INSCRIBED TO BE HONOURED FOR EVERMORE LEFT OF LEFT PLAQUE: ENLISTMENT/ AND THEY WERE IN THE WAY GOING UP TO JERUSALEM AND JESUS WENT BEFORE THEM AND THEY WERE AMAZED. ST MARK X. 32./ ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD SAYING - WHOM SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? THEN SAID I, HERE I AM, SEND ME. ISAIAH VI. 8. RIGHT OF LEFT PLAQUE: WAR/ AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND CAST OUT ALL THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEYCHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES. ST MATT. XXI. 12/ OUT OF WEAKNESS WERE MADE STRONG, WAXED VALIANT IN FIGHT, TURNED TO FLIGHT THE ARMIES OF THE ALIENS. HEB. XI. 34. LEFT OF RIGHT PLAQUE: DEATH/ HE SAVED OTHERS, HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE. ST MARK. XV. 31./ A PEOPLE THAT, JEOPARDISED THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE FIELD. JUDGES. V. 18. RIGHT OF RIGHT PLAQUE: GLORY/ LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES, AND BE YE LIFT UP YE EVERLASTING DOORS AND THE KING OF GLORY SHALL COME IN. WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY? IT IS THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, EVEN THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE. PSALM. XXIV. 7 & 8./TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I GRANT TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE, EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME AND AM SAT DOWN WITH MY FATHER IN HIS THRONE. REV. III. 21.
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    67
    Died
    67
    Information shown
    Year died, Regiment, Forename
    Order of names
    Regiment, Year died

    Components

    Plaques

    Made from: Bronze


    Condition: Good


    Screen

    Made from: Wood - Oak


    Condition: Good


    Painting

    Made from: Paper


    Condition: Good