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BROCKENHURST
St Nicholas' Church
In church porch wooden board on wall.
(Nothing in St Saviour's Church)
Center panel
FOR GOD, KING & COUNTRY.
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THE HEROIC DEAD.
Side panels.
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Village memorial on green by roadside.
(According to a guide book the memorial in the porch of St Nicholas was originally in a shrine on the site of this memorial)
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1985 2005
Above plaque in the stone.
To our
glorious
dead.
On bronze plaque.
In ever grateful memory
of
the men of Brockenhurst
who gave their lives
for their country during
the Great War
1914 - 1918.
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Their name liveth for evermore.
New panel added in 2002.
2002
The following Men of Brockenhurst
are also known to have
given their lives for their country
First World War
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Second World War
(Now WW2 names)
Post 1945
(Now one post 1945)
The following Villagers were killed
in the Second World War
(Now list of these)
"We will remember them"
St Nicholas' Church
Brass plaque on wall in church
Sacred to the memory of
Thomas Farquhar Lucas
Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regt.
and Royal Flying Corps.
Elder son of Sir Edward Lucas, Bart.
Late of Whitley Ridge, Brockenhurst.
Killed in action 16th June 1917,
Aged 30.
Stone plaque on wall in church
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In Piam Memoriam
Lieut. Commander
Victor James Bowden-Smith R.N.
H.M.S. Lucia 10 Submarine Flotilla,
who was killed in the Great War by an accidental
explosion, whilst engaged in the act of recovering
a German torpedo, which was adrift in the
North Sea near Runswick, Aug 22nd 1918.
Aged 31.
Mors Janua Vitae
Stone plaque on wall in church below NZ flag.
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To the honour and in grateful memory of
The New Zealand Soldiers
who served during the Great War and died
in the New Zealand General Hospital
Brockenhurst. ###### Their bodies
were laid side by side in the churchyard
one of the new bells was given by their
relatives and friends in New Zealand
as a memorial of their self sacrifice
(Unfortunately the flag was stolen a week before this was recorded in 1985, but there was another flag there in 2006)
