St Michael's, Buckland with Laverton Ordnance Survey reference: SP 082360 War Memorial

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Sacred to the memory of the men from the Parish of Buckland
who died for their country during the Great War 1914-1918
Serg^t Thomas Ladbrook 1^st Glos. Reg^t. Killed
in action Battle of Mons Nov 4th 1914 aged 36
Private Theodore Grimmitt 8^th Glos. Reg^t Killed
in action N^r Neuve Chapelle Dec 13^th 1915 aged 23
Lieut. Charles Brough Scott 1^st R^yl Dragoon Att^d Cv^y Corps
Signals Killed in action at Ribecourt Nov 20th 1917 aged 21
Private W.G.L. Rivers 8^th Glos Reg^t Killed
in action Nr Ribecourt Dec 17th 1917 aged 31
Private Arthur William Box A.S.C. M.T. Died of
nephritis East Africa Jan 13^th 1918 aged 39
Gunner William John Grimmitt 275 R.F.A. Killed in
action at Fougieres Nr Bethune April 18th 1918 aged 19
Private Harry Smith 2/L R^yl GLS Hussars Att^d 1/5 Yorks
Reg^t died of dysentery at Dercy Monterrs aged 19

1939-1945 S^gt James Grimmitt R.A.F. 20th Dec 1942

Two other tablets in the church:

In Loving Remembrance of Hew Wardrop Brooke Rickards, only son of the rector of this parish Lieut. Royal Field Artillery Attached to the Royal Flying Corps who was killed in action near Courtrais July 28th 1917 aged 21 "Qui Procul hinc - the legend's writ the frontier grave id far away Qui ande diem periit Sed miles. Sed pro patria"

In loving memory of Charles Brough Scott Lieutenant 1st Royal Dragoons attached Cavalry Corps Signals, killed in action at Ribecourt France November 20th 1917 aged 21 Buried at Fins, France Eldest son of Charles and Jenny Scott at Buckland Manor "E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth" "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends"

There is also a large carved wooden altar panel, depicting Christ, flanked on the left by St Michael and a winged lion, on the right with a winged bull and a figure of "the happy warrior", dedicated to the memory of Charles Brough Scott.

The graveyard opposite the church on the other side of the road has this standard headstone:

314156 TROOPER B.C. HUNT ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS 17TH MAY 1944 AGE 41 REST IN THE LORD

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