Remembrance Sunday

Please see the Service Rota for details

Wickhambrook War Memorial

For The Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. St John 15-13"

* Known as Jack (Percy) Holden

Kohima Epitaph

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.

John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958)

Undying Memory & Roll of Honour

The websites http://www.undyingmemory.net/ and http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ list the fallen and monuments of a number of the Bansfield Benefice churches. These can be viewed below. A listing of the available Suffolk Parishes can also be viewed at http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/.

Further information about those men and others who gave their lives in war can be found on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website at http://www.cwgc.org/. An excellent search facility is available here giving information about those who died in war.

Another forces resource is the Forces Reunited site http://www.forcesreunited.co.uk/.

Historic England also has a page on its site dedicated to war memorials and there is a listing and search on the Imperial War Museums website and the War Memorials Online website.

To celebrate the centenary of the end of World War I the There but not therewebsite was set up.