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17/8/2019

AXBRIDGE

Stone cross to side of steps leading up to St John the Baptist Church, inscriptions on front faces of plinths.

On first plinth down.

To the Glory of God
and in grateful memory
of the Axbridge men
who fell in the Great War 1914-1918.

On next plinth down.

Arthur Durbin.

Harry Francis.

Percy Hancock.

Archibald Arthur James.

George Land.

Victor Arthur C. Leche.

Charles Lintern.

Richard Ambrose Offer.

Percy Roe.

George Coomer Weare.

On last plinth.

They died for you.
"Greater lover hath no man than this."

Brass plaque on wall in St John the Baptist Church.

In loving memory of
2nd Lieutenant,
Victor Arthur C. Leche
of the Devons,
attached to the 2st Somerset L.I.
who fell at
Beaumont Hamel in France
on July 1st 1916,
leading his men in the great assult
on the German lines.
Aet 20
"Pro patria mori."

Brass plaque on wall in St John the Baptist Church.

In Proud loving memory of
Reginald Herbert Verry,
Lieutenant 49th Battalion Australian Imperial Force
Killed in France on April 5th 1918.
Aged 23 years.
"I thank my God upon every remembrance odf you".
                                  Phil.1.3.