A war memorial with a difference
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This is the font cover in a small village church in Buckinghamshire. A collection of copper pennies and silver spoons and thimbles was made by parishioners and melted down. The silver was used for the figure of a mother and child made by Kathleen Shaw, a local sculptor, who modelled them on a local woman and child. The copper cover was engraved with the names of villagers who died in both World Wars including that of the Chief Writer on HMS Queen Mary, drowned at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
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