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Gloucestershire | Buckland with Laverton | War Memorial

St Michael’s, Buckland with Laverton Ordnance Survey reference: SP 082360 War Memorial

A white stone tablet in the church:

Sacred to the memory of the men from the Parish of Buckland

who died for their country during the Great War 1914-1918

Serg^t Thomas Ladbrook 1^st Glos. Reg^t. Killed

in action Battle of Mons Nov 4th 1914 aged 36

Private Theodore Grimmitt 8^th Glos. Reg^t Killed

in action N^r Neuve Chapelle Dec 13^th 1915 aged 23

Lieut. Charles Brough Scott 1^st R^yl Dragoon Att^d Cv^y Corps

Signals Killed in action at Ribecourt Nov 20th 1917 aged 21

Private W.G.L. Rivers 8^th Glos Reg^t Killed

in action Nr Ribecourt Dec 17th 1917 aged 31

Private Arthur William Box A.S.C. M.T. Died of

nephritis East Africa Jan 13^th 1918 aged 39

Gunner William John Grimmitt 275 R.F.A. Killed in

action at Fougieres Nr Bethune April 18th 1918 aged 19

Private Harry Smith 2/L R^yl GLS Hussars Att^d 1/5 Yorks

Reg^t died of dysentery at Dercy Monterrs aged 19

1939-1945 S^gt James Grimmitt R.A.F. 20th Dec 1942

Two other tablets in the church:

In
Loving Remembrance of
Hew Wardrop Brooke Rickards,
only son of the rector of this parish
Lieut. Royal Field Artillery
Attached to the Royal Flying Corps
who was killed in action near Courtrais
July 28^th 1917 aged 21
“Qui Procul hinc – the legend’s writ
the frontier grave id far away
Qui ande diem periit
Sed miles. Sed pro patria”

In loving memory of Charles
Brough Scott Lieutenant 1st Royal
Dragoons attached Cavalry
Corps Signals, killed in action
at Ribecourt France
November 20th 1917 aged 21
Buried at Fins, France Eldest
son of Charles and Jenny
Scott at Buckland Manor
“E’en as he trod that day to God
so walked he from his birth
In simpleness and gentleness
and honour and clean mirth”
“Greater love hath no man
than this that a man lay
down his life for his friends”

There is also a large carved wooden altar panel, depicting Christ, flanked on the left by St Michael and a winged lion, on the right with a winged bull and a figure of “the happy warrior”, dedicated to the memory of Charles Brough Scott.

The graveyard opposite the church on the other side of the road has this standard headstone:

314156 TROOPER
B.C. HUNT
ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
17TH MAY 1944 AGE 41
REST IN THE LORD

GENUKI’s Buckland Page

Last modified 14 November 1999