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St Lawrence, Jersey




St Lawrence's Memorial stands proudly in front of the Parish Hall, with its back to the Hall and the front looking out over the beautiful country side of St Lawrence and beyond, as if standing guard over its Parish. It takes the form of a pillar made of granite with a thick base, and a long slender neck leading to shaped head, which has on the front a sword, attached pointing down the neck, the handle surrounded by a wreath. The brass panels at the base of the memorial records the names of 34 men who died during The Great War, and a smaller panel, obviously added later on to the front has the names of 7 men who died in World War II. The simple but powerful inscription reads:

1914
Our
Glorious
Dead
1919



St.Lawrence, Jersey

St.Lawrence, Jersey

Charles Stanley Mossop DSO was just twenty years of age when he died in an accident whilst flying a seaplane on 12th August, 1918.

He was a lieutenant with the Royal Air Force, serving with 243 Squadron based at Cherbourg. Charles was the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Mossop, of "Cambray," Millbrook, and formerly of Commercial Buildings, St Helier.

It is reported that he died near Port En Bessin in Normandy, a town which would become synonymous twenty six years later as being at the heart of Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings where large numbers of America soldiers would die there assaulting the beaches. He is also remembered on the Victoria College Memorial.