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Eyam - Church of St Lawrence

Church of St Lawrence, Church Street, Eyam, Derbyshire, S32 5QH, England.

 

First World War (1914-1918)

Second World War (1939-1945)

 

About the memorial: Limestone Cross with wheel and sword and leaded inscription together with granite slabs recording names. Located in the Churchyard.

 

Inscription: In imperishable memory of the men of Eyam who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1919. They whom this monument commemorate were numbered among those who at the call of King and Country left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that their names are not forgotten. And in memory of those who gave their lives for their country 1939-1945

 

Names: WW1, Charles Dronfield, Samuel Needham, Frank R Froggatt, Joseph Purseglove, Fred Daniel, Harry Buxton, Joseph C Twigg, John E Maltby, Tom Frith, George West, Abraham White, Arthur E Hemsworth, Joseph Wilson, Leonard Bullard, Robert A Dane, Walter Twigg, Francis J Eyre, WW2, Sydney J Golding, Joseph Mather, Harry Watkins, Henry Waller, Albert Dronfield, Frank Maxted.

 

www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/149239

 

www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14475

 

www.militaryimages.net/media/eyam-war-memorial-derbyshire...

 

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Eyam%2C_Derbyshire_-_War_Memo...

 

www.tracesofwar.com/sights/83513/War-Memorial-Eyam.htm

 

eyamplague.blogspot.com/2011/09/eyam-war-memorial.html

 

roll-of-honour.com/Derbyshire/Eyam.html

 

 

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