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Location
At the junction of Lake Hill and The Fairway, Isle of Wight See map on www.streetmap.co.uk National Inventory of War Memorials Record Link : NIWM Reference 21807 War Memorial Link : NIWM Reference 21808 Horse Trough English Heritage Listing Status The War Memorial is not Listed. 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 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. |
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Memorial
War Memorial in 1935 
War Memorial in 1998 
WW II names added 1999 |
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 ----- 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 F 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
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