Tasburgh War Memorial

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At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

These words spoken throughout the land on or near the 11th November every year would have meant so much more to those who gathered around Tasburgh's Memorial at the entrance to the churchyard when it was dedicated in 1924. At least 70 men, mostly volunteers, with links to the village served in the armed forces at some point in WW1 and 12 of those men, who they would all have known, never returned to this country. Four of them lost their lives during the four and a half months of the Somme campaign in 1916. Although not originally included on the Memorial, two more men died of their wounds in the UK and are buried here in the churchyard. Their names were added when the Memorial was refurbished in 2018 for the 100th anniversary of the end of the war. Before then just one further name had been added as a result of WW2, but who were these men that would have known so well the church and the old village houses, the roads and the lanes that we still know and use today? Where did they live or what was their connection to Tasburgh, when and where did they die and how are they commemorated?

They were all real people with grieving parents and other relatives, and included two brothers, and two pairs of cousins. They deserve to be remembered for what they did and what they gave, and hopefully the information which follows means that they will be appreciated and will never be forgotten.