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Guston
ST MARTIN OF
TOURS
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Dedicated in November 1919, the memorial at this church is the
reredos and cross behind the
altar. The reredos was designed by Mr Crooke of Guston and
made by Messrs Flashman and Co of Dover. The cross is
studded with Scottish onyx and made by Messrs Jones and
Willis of Great Russell Street, London. On the three steps of the cross are inscribed the
words:
Dedicated by the people of Guston to the
memory of
Albert James Dixon,
Robert Edward Prior*
who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918.
Grant them O Lord, Eternal Peace |
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At Guston are buried deceased lads from the Duke of York's Royal
Military School
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the youngest was Sergeant Monitor P V Barnett, who was 14
years and 6 months when he died on 11th July 1914 |
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at the foot of the central cross is inscribed:
"In Loving Memory
of
Boys of the Duke of York's
Royal Military School
Sons of the Brave, may all be gathered,
Bravest of all, at last to thee!
O Lord, with all they faithful soldiers,
Give us the Palm of Victory!" |
* Robert Prior died from heatstroke. He had
served two years in the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force
pictures by Simon John Chambers
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