There are no settlements in Scotland or Northern Ireland that did not lose a member of the community in the First World War.
In England and Wales there are 52, known as Thankful Villages. And Teigh in Rutland is one of them.
The photograph shows the low obelisk and sundial that was erected in 2014 to mark this fact. The plaque lists the names of the eleven men and two women from the village who served in the war and came home.
They are commemorated inside the church too.
At the edge of the village there is a plum tree planted by his parents to commemorate their son who died in 2004 at the age of 36.
When I visited Teigh the fruit was ripening.
You might like musician Darren Hayman's "Thankful Villages" project:
ReplyDeletehttp://thankfulvillages.co.uk/
https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/thankful-villages-volume-1
Thanks for the links!
ReplyDeleteBut one of the names to be read on the Roll of Honour, William Arthur Haines, was killed (on 15th July 1916)
ReplyDeleteThe Roll of Honour lists 12 men not 11. The church guide says the extra name was a "visitor". That may be Haines.
ReplyDeleteThis page suggests that is the explanation.
ReplyDeleteHaines was enough of a Teigh resident to be honoured in the church during the War but not enough of a resident to be honoured after the war ended (when his widow and son had moved away from Rutland).
ReplyDeleteI imagine both memorials in the church date from after the war. Do you have a source that says he had a wife and son?
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