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Lisle Bertram Colls Inscription Barton School Plaque -WW1

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Details:

In the church under a series of stained glass windows on the west wall of the church.

Plaque

A white mable plaque lisitng the sturdents of the school who died during World War 1 to include the name of one American, Lisle Bertram Dinniss Colls.

The memorial is in a stained glass panel suspended with the associated plaque bearing the names of the fallen on the adjoining wall. The stained glass window, depicts St George, across from a marble tablet. The tablet bears the names of the fallen (in two columns and black lettering) beneath a carving of St George slaying the dragon. A smaller tablet below, remembers the identity of the headmaster who erected the memorial. There are 42 names listed for World War 1. The names include one American, Lisle Bertram Dinniss Colls.

Corporal Lisle Bertram Colls Service number, 643 served in the 6th Battalion of the Australian Infantry.  He was killed in action on April 25, 1915 during the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey.  He was a native of Sand Hill, Sandusky, Ohio.  He is also remembered on the Canberra -Australian War Memorial and his centoaph is located at the Lone Pine Memorial & Cemetery in Turkey.

 

Source of informaiton and photos: https://roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/WisbechOldBartonians.html

Monument Text:

THE "OLD BOYS"
OF THE BARTON SCHOOL
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING AND HONOURED
MEMORY OF THE BARTONIANS.

 

(List of Names)

COLLS L.B.D.

 

 

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
FOR JUSTICE AND RIGHT
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918.

Associated tablet:

IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF
JAMES WEST STANTON . M.A.
(CHURCHWARDEN)
FOR MANY YEARS HEADMASTER OF THE
WISBECH BARTON SCHOOL
WHOSE LAST GENEROUS ACT OF DEVOTION TO HIS PUPILS
WAS THE ERECTION OF THE ABOVE MEMORIAL.

Commemorates:

People:

Lisle Bertram Dinniss Colls

Units:

Australian Army

Australian Imperial Force

British Army

Wars:

WWI