Brigg Blog was interested to see that Scawby Parish Council is planning to erect a war memorial in Church Street, having a stainless steel plate embossed with inscriptions and incorporating a central poppy to be affixed to the base. It will sit on a concrete plinth.
Permission to proceed is now being sought from North Lincolnshire Council, the planning authority.
The memorial will honour people of the parish "who gave their lives for their country in two world wars and in subsquent conflicts."
Old OS maps show that the parishes of Scawby, Broughton, Wrawby and even Bigby came into what we now define as Brigg. In Scawby's case, along Bridge Street, which was heavily populated in the early 20th century.
Did any of the WW1 servicemen to be honoured on the new Scawby war memorial live near the border with Brigg?
Brigg War Memorial already contains names of soldiers who lived outside the parish. Particularly for WW1, it is a memorial to local people, as well as those who had an association to Brigg and district. It is almost 50:50...but it would prove useful if all the Scawby parish names are recorded.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it is somewhat ironic that when I asked BTC to inscribe a Wrawby nurse, killed in action on the Western Front in March, 1918 - Army Axillary nurse, Sister Andrew, the proposal was denied. Some councillors assumed that Brigg Memorial only contained Brigg names...others assumed she must be on another war memorial somewhere..(her name is on an old Wrawby school plaque..together with some names of soldiers who also appear on Brigg memorial..her name also is inscribed in a chapel in York Minster..but her name in not on any official war memorial). The BTC Mayor of the time...he lived Scawby said that 'we shouldn't change history'....on the contrary, I was trying to correct history.
In addition, there is a display of Sister Andrew's experiences and a report of how she was 'killed in action' while on duty at a medical station....at the Heritage Centre in Brigg and it poses the valid question that her name be included on the Monument.
Can this serious omission be now corrected....it is long overdue?
.....there is a lady already recorded on the Monument....Rose Turner from WW2..she was related to Cliff Turner who contributes to Brigg Blog.
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