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St Luke, Jersey


Howard Davis Park has a poignant link to the Great War as it is named in memory of Howard Leopold Davis who died in 1916 after being wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The park is beautiful, a haven from the busy streets of St Helier during the lunch hour, charming for an evening walk on a warm summer night. The park contains the graves of American and British service men from the Second World War and one from the First World War.

Outside St Luke's Church you will find St Luke's Great War memorial, standing solid and grey, inscribed on three sides with the names of forty five men lost during the war. On the front the is the inscription

In Memory of Our Men who Gave Their Lives in the Great War
1914 - 1918
Greater Love Hath No Man Then This

The memorial takes the form of a cross, a sword being attached to the front. Grey in appearance thus matching the church immediately behind it the memorial is still an impressive site, solemn and purposeful.


Circa 1922