The History Club felt that as the centenary of the end of the Great War actually fell on Remembrance Sunday (11thNovember 2018), we should try and bring those 24 North Marston men into focus and tell a bit more about them as real people, or as much as we can find out.
Our Secretary, Sue Chaplin, created a Great War Centenary Display in the Memorial Hall…a fitting venue as the hall was opened in 1923 to honour those that died in the Great War….with panels of information and photographs seeking to “place” them in the context of the village and their families. The display proved immensely popular.
In partnership with the parish council we also bought two “Silent Soldier Silhouettes”, one was in the High Street and the other is at the church. The High Street Tommy is now placed in the churchyard adjacent to the war graves on the far side.
This figure of a “Tommy” that stood on the bottom green in the High Street, with thanks to the late Jim Tattam who erected it there for us.
If you want to learn more about those young men from the village who never returned from the War, click here.
To see a video of the very well attended parade in the High Street from the church to the memorial hall, click here.