Laxton
St Michael

War Memorial

The church has an external war memorial to the north in the graveyard, and two war memorial plaques, one for the First World War, on the north wall of the nave, and one for the Second World War, on the south wall of the nave.

Exterior War Memorial

The war memorial in the graveyard carries the wording:

THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919
TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN GRATEFUL
REMEMBRANCE OF
THOSE FROM THIS
PARISH WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919

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

LIEU G.C. TUNBRIDGE
CORPL C. WHITWORTH
CORPL O.P. WILLIS
LC CORPL T. DOLBY
PTE G.R. BROOKS
PTE. A.H. CHELL
PTE T.W. LAUGHTON
PTE. E. MADDISON

PTE. G.W. SAXELBY

Interior Memorial – First World War

This is on the north wall of the north nave aisle.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF
THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL AND THOSE WHO
SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

	ROLL OF HONOUR
LIEUT G.C. TUNBRIDGE		LE.CORPL T. DOLBY	PTE T.W. LAUGHTON
CORPL C. WHITWORKTH		PTE G.R. BROOKS	PTE E. MADDISON
CORPL O.P. WILLIS		PTE A.H. CHELL	PTE G.W. SAXELBY
	WAR SERVICE
CAPTN N.L. TUNBRIDGE		PTE W. CREE	PTE J. MOODY
LIEUT H.S. TUNBRIDGE		GUNNER J. COOK	PTE A.E. RICKETT
SERGT E.M. JONES		PTE H. DOLBY	PTE E.J. ROSE
SERGT P. MADDISON		PTE W. DOLBY	PTE W. ROSE
SERGT H.F.P. WILLIS		DRIVER W. FAVILL	PTE G. SAMPSON
CORPL G. DOLBY		PTE A. LACEY	PTE J.E. BURKITT
PTE J. BAGSHAW		PTE. G. LAUGHTON	PTE M.M. MOODY
PTE J. CREE		PTE G. MOODY

Interior Memorial – Second World War

On the south wall of the south nave aisle, more or less opposite the memorial for the First World War, though it is of a rather plainer design. It is unusual in that it also includes the name of one local resident who was also killed.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND
IN REMEMBRANCE OF Miss R.B.P WILLIS
Who was killed in this village by
Enemy action on 28th August 1940
And those who served in the
SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

ARMY		R.A.F.
J.G. BARTLE M.M.	C.J. WALTERS	S.A. BARBOUR
E. DOLBY	F.K. WALTERS	S.G. BARTLE
N. GASH	S. WALTERS	F. JAMES
G. GWYNNE	S. COOK	J.L. JONES
C. LOMAS	J.L. RANDALL	R. TURNER
S. MARRISON		F. WILSON
P. MOODY	W.A.A.F.
T. PAULSON	W.A.A.F.
C.R. RAYNER	A.M. BARTLE	R.N.
A. ROSE	I. COCKING	R.N.
D. ROSE	P. HALLAM	N.C. BARTLE
R.M. ROSE	J.L. KEETON	R.D. HALL

Plane Crash Memorial

There is a further memorial in the south chancel aisle to five Canadian airmen who were victims of a plane crash in 1945. This reads:

IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE 4 CREW
WHO DIED AND THE ONE SURVIVOR
WHEN WELLINGTON LP 841 OF
82 O.T.U. OSSINGTON CRASHED IN THE SOUTH
FIELD LAXTON ON 5TH JANUARY 1945