War Memorial, Parkgate & Neston United Reformed Church.

War Memorial, Parkgate & Neston United Reformed Church.

Location

In Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church, Parkgate Road, Neston, Cheshire.

Description

There are two war memorials in the church.

One in marble gives the names of members of the church (then a Congregational Church) who fell in WW1. Alongside is a wooden cross dedicated to an unknown soldier which appears to be an original taken from a WW1 battlefield burial.

One in metal gives the names of church members who fell in WW2.

Inscription, WW1 Memorial

1914 - 1919.

THIS TABLET
IS DEDICATED TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOURED MEMORY
OF THE FOLLOWING MEN
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR.
James E ANDERSON
Walter BRIDSON
William S TOWERT
J Maxwell HAMPSON
William NIVEN
Kenneth M C SMYTH
William G R BUTCHER

"THEY DIED
THAT WE MIGHT LIVE."

Inscription, WW2 Memorial

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF

Neville SCOTT
                        ( SESSION CLERK )
 Ralph G JELLICOE
Albert S PRINCE
George N C SMYTH

WHO DIED IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,   THAT
A  MAN  LAY  DOWN  HIS  LIFE  FOR  HIS  FRIENDS

WW2 War Memorial, Parkgate & Neston United Reformed Church.

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