Bleasby St Mary

War Memorial

The War Memorial
Inscription on the
front of the
Memorial
Inscription on the
left-hand side

The War Memorial is located just inside the churchyard on the right hand side of the path leading from the Main Street to the South entrance of the church. Being only a few yards from the lychgate makes it the immediate focus of all who enter the site. It is cut from granite in the form of a Celtic cross rising from a four-sided tapered plinth of the same material. Two of the four panels of the plinth carry the names of those parishioners who gave their lives in two world wars.

The inscription on the front reads:

"THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO THE
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE PARISHES OF
BLEASBY AND HALLOUGHTON, WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919"

LIEUT. L.E. GILL.   7TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS.
SERGT. C.E. COX.   1/8TH        "              "
PTE. G.W. ANDREW.   2ND           "              "
PTE. H. OLIVER.   2/7TH        "              "
CPL. J.L. JAMES.   2ND GRENADIER GUARDS.
PTE. T. SHEPPERD.   LINCS. REGT.
PTE. H. PALMBY.   22ND D.L.I.
SAPPER F. MARSH.   ROYAL ENGINEERS.
SAPPER H.MILLS.        "            "

MAKE THEM BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS
IN GLORY EVERLASTING

On the left-hand side of the base (as one faces it) is the inscription:

1939 - 1945.

MAJOR R.V. MORRIS.
SHERWOOD FORESTERS.

S/SGT ROY HALL.
R.A.

There is also a memorial to those who served to the First World War on the village hall, formerly the school.