Car Colston
St Mary

War Memorial

The war memorial is made of wood, some 4.5ft high by 2.5ft wide. It was constructed by Walter Farmer who lived in the village, and commemorates the fallen of World War I. It is sited in the blocked door in the north aisle, being moved there in 1984 from its previous site on the east wall of the south aisle.

It is lettered in gold Roman capitals and bears the following inscription:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919

CAPT. PHILIP UMFREVILLE LAWS MC
16TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS

CPL. ROBERT HENRY BUCKLAND
2ND WEST YORKS

CPL. ARTHUR SMITH
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS

PTE. WALTER DOUGLAS POWELL
7TH LINCOLNS

PTE. LESLIE TOMLIN
SHERWOOD FORESTERS

THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE

Below this memorial there is a chest with two brass candlesticks and a card plaque commemorating the 50th Anniversary of “the Few” in the Battle of Britain.

On the front side of the chest are five wooden plaques decorated with - from left to right - the badges of the following regiments:

Chatsworth Rifles
2 West Yorkshire
RASC
7 Lincolnshire
Notts. And Derby

To the left of the memorial is a ‘Flanders Cross’, a relic from World War I with metal tape giving details of Captain Laws. A replacement in Portland Stone is in Voormezele Cemetery near Ypres.

There is no war memorial for World War II.

The War Memorial The chest beneath the main War Memorial The “Flanders Cross” beside the War Memorial