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    Memorial

    Misterton and Walcote

    Misterton and Walcote - WW1 tablets.

    Source: Copyright Rob Palmer.

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    Current Location

    north wall of north aisle,, St. Leonard's Church, Chapel Lane, Misterton, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE17 4JP, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SP 55701 84002

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    © WMR-37834

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    37834
    Description
    Large, wall-mounted framed stone memorial with three vertical marble tablets, incised & infilled with black paint. Names to either side, inscription in centre, with a soldier in mourning on far left and a sailor on far right, shield with cross and crown motif below and cross in wreath above. Tablets separated by swords.
    Inscription
    Left and right tablets : (14 NAMES) Centre tablet : TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN IMPERISHABLE / MEMORY OF THOSE WHO / WENT OUT FROM THE / PARISH OF MISTERTON/ AND WALCOTE TO THE / GREAT WAR 1914 -1919 / AND LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES FOR THEIR / KING AND COUNTRY / These in the day when Heaven / was falling / The day when Earths Foundations fled / Obeyed their King and Country's / calling And did their duty and are dead / Their shoulders held the skies uplifted / They stood and Earths Foundation / stay. / The cause of freedom they defended / And saved the World for us to day / DULCE ET DECORUM EST / PRO PATRIA MORI.
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    14
    Died
    14
    Information shown
    Rank, forename, surname, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death
    Order of names
    Rank

    Components

    Memorial

    Height: c 1620 mm

    Width: 1920 mm

    Depth: 165 mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Tablet

    Height: 790 mm

    Width: 382 mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Tablet

    Height: 790 mm

    Width: 420 mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Tablet

    Height: 790 mm

    Width: 382 mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    • Kenyon, Denis. "War Memorials of Market Harborough." The Harborough Historian, no 27, 2010, pp26-32.