St Andrew's Church - Thringstone
World War I
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ContributeStained glass window featuring St Alban (Britain's first Christian martyr, d.AD304) and associated brass plaque with inscription in black, unveiled in 1920 by Lt Col Tom Booth, DSO of Gracedieu Manor. The website below on the history of the church states that the window was originally going to be dedicated to Theophilus Jones, headmaster of Thringstone school, who was killed by the German bombardment of Hartlepool December 1914, making him the first British soldier killed on active service on home soil in almost 200 years and consequently the first such casualty of WW1. By the end of WW1 another 26 men had died and the window was dedicated to them all.
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St Andrew's Church - Thringstone
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Inscription Reads
TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING
WHO FROM THIS PARISH AND CONGREGATION HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919, THIS WINDOW IS
DEDICATED BY THE CONGREGATION & PARISHIONERS OF ST ANDREW'S
[NAMES]
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"