Norfolk Epitaphs:Sculthorpe memorial inscriptions

The memorial inscriptions in the church, war memorial & churchyard at Sculthorpe St Mary & All Saints in north west Norfolk

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War memorial

WM01 [plaque in the entrance porch] Of eighty-six Sculthorpe men/ who went forth/ to serve their King and Country/ in the Great War 1914 – 1919/ these laid down their lives/

Bertie MASTERS Mesopotamia
James OVERMENT France
George ANTINGHAM France
Wilfred RUTLAND France
William CLARKE France
Charles DEWING France
Elijah LONG France
Stanley JARVIS France
Ernest GROOM Flanders
Henry MALLET at sea
Well done! Good and faithful servants/ enter ye into the joy of our Lord

WM02 [Plaque in the entrance porch] !939 – 1945/ of the seventy nine men and women/ who went from this village/ these men gave their lives/
V RUTLAND Dunkirk
J PERCIVAL Sajerno
J GIRDLESTONE POW Japan
P COTTER at sea RAF
J GATHERCOLE Burma
R HOWES Italy
Greater love hath no man than this/ that a man lay down his life for his friends John XV. 13.
D MACK Korea 1952

Inside the church

To follow in 2012

In the churchyard

To follow in 2012