War Memorials & Regimental Crests
Other memorials transferred to the church include:
- two war memorials from the First World War originally in Aldershot Presbyterian Church which can now be found in the porch of St Andrews;
- a monument to Field Marshal, Lord Wavell, originally in the Wavell Memorial Chapel, which ceased to be used as a place of worship in 1965-66;
- and a window with stained glass showing regimental crests, mainly of Scottish regiments, made up of a number of smaller stained glass windows the bulk of which came from the Church Of Scotland Canteen, in Aldershot, which was knocked down in the late 1960s.
Read more about this topic: St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, Monuments
Famous quotes containing the words war, memorials and/or crests:
“How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.”
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“His valors shown upon our crests today
Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.”
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