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Location
At the junction of Lake Hill and The Fairway, Isle of Wight IWM War Memorials Archive Record Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 21807 War Memorial Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 21808 Horse Trough Historic England Listing Status The War Memorial was Listed at Grade II in 2020. See Lake War Memorial, HE Listing The Horse Trough is separately Listed Grade II. Isle of Wight Council Local Listing Status The War Memorial has been included in the list of structures of Local importance held by the Isle of Wight Council (June 2008). Description The Memorial, designed by Miss Clara Cecilia Porter of Lake, was constructed by George Maile & Son of London. The Memorial was dedicated by the Bishop of Southampton on 6 Feb 1921. A stone cross bearing the names of the Lake men who died in the Great War. A drinking trough commemorates the horses and dogs used in the War. The Memorial was moved in 1998. The World War II names were added in 1999. In 2012, D.B. Stebbing's name was added. He was a casualty from the Malayan Emergency of 1948 - 1960, who died in 1952. |
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Memorial
Unveiling ceremony (6 Feb 1921). Click these 3 images to enlarge 
War Memorial in 1935 
War Memorial in 1998 
WW II names added 1999 
WW II / Malaya panel - Memorial in 2012 
D B Stebbing, added 2012 |
Inscription
THE PEOPLE OF LAKE
HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL IN HONOUR OF THE 210 LAKE MEN WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY BY LAND SEA AND AIR IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1920 ----- names as given below ----- 1939 - 1945 ----- names as given below ----- ----- MALAYA 1948 - 1960 ----- name as given below ----- TO THE GLORY OF GOD WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY AND IN MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC DEAD "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
" O RISEN LORD,
O SHEPHERD OF OUR DEAD" "WHOSE CROSS HAS BROUGHT THEM AND WHOSE STAFF HAS LED" "IN GLORIOUS HOPE, THEIR PROUD AND SORROWING LAND" "COMMITS HER CHILDREN TO THY GRACIOUS HAND" J S ARKWRIGHT TO THE HORSES AND DOGS WHO ALSO BORE THE BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY 1914 - 1920 BE YE MERCIFUL TO COMMEMORATE THE BRAVE MEN OF LAKE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING ACTIVE SERVICE IN WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945 WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Further Information
Acknowledgments Thanks to Hilton Price for permission to use the 3 pictures of the unveiling ceremony, which were posted on the Isle of Wight Heritage Facebook Group page in 2015. |
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Page last updated : 4 October 2016 (added Leslie John Diffey)