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:
“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man’s hunting ground.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“His valors shown upon our crests today
Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)