Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — Village Proud of War Record. [ARTICLE]

Village Proud of War Record.

The little Norfolk village of Old Buckingham is proud of its war record. Its total male population between the ages of eighteen and fifty in 1914 was 2fi4. Of that number no fewer than 170 served with the forces and 39 have given their lives for their country. In their honor a memorial cross has been erected on the village green, an exact reproduction of the “cross of sacrifice” designed by Sir- Reginald Bloomfield, ft. A., for all British military cemeteries abroad. The total height from the ground line to the top of tin; cross is 24 feet G inches. -fr~IS built of slmuat-mid-fhe names of those men of the village who fell in the war are incised in gilt on the drum below the base of the cross. The. sacrifice of Old Buckingham is typical, British village. i - 1