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Mansfield - St Lawrence the Martyr

St Lawrence the Martyr, junction of Peck's Hill and Skerry Hill, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The church was opened in 1909. The memorial is in the baptistry and comprises six wooden panels, three each on the north and south walls either side of the font. An inscription is inscribed across the top of the rails on either side: ‘1914 To the Glory of God' and 'In memory of the fallen 1919’. The memorial is now on the Baptistry walls, located to right of the main door in an alcove below the west window. The panels originally formed a low screen in front of the choir but were moved in recent times to open up the church. The names are grouped by unit, with three of the panels inscribed with the names of men who served in the local units, the Sherwood Foresters and the South Notts Hussars. The parents of one of the casualties, Frank Hill, presented a memorial brass procession cross in their son's memory; inscription on the cross: ‘To the glory of God and the blessed memory of Frank Hill, 1/8th Sherwood Foresters, who fell in France on June 15th, 1915. Dulce est propatria mori.’ (Dedicated 12 October 1919, Mansfield Reporter, 24 October 1919.)

Identified casualties 82 people
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