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On display in St Aidan's Chapel, the regimental chapel in St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury.

Berenice

As usual, many thanks for another interesting post. It is good to see that the KSLI colours are not only preserved, but are displayed for public viewing.

I noticed that, by chance, the battle honours 'South Africa 1899-1902' and 'Korea 1951-52' on the regimental colour are close together. Also by chance, although most of my medal collection focusses on the military history of Natal, I have some Korean War medals, including the Queen's Korea Medal awarded to a KSLI Corporal.

Regards

Berenice,

It is good to see that these items have been so well preserved. When I see them sometimes hanging in churches, I am worried how long they might last .

With thanks
David

David,

The latest Western Front Association Bulletin has a full-page article titled 'War memorials at risk.' One case it highlights was of St Saviour's Church in Leicester which closed in 2007 and was badly vandalised in 2010 with many of the war memorial plaques being stolen, the WW1 Memorial Chapel and memorial board smashed up, and a memorial stained glass window being broken beyond repair.

I think all churches which close should immediately have anything of historical or financial value removed, even if only temporarily, and all windows securely boarded-up.

There was an open church, in Cambridgeshire?, which was destroyed by arsonists about 3 or 4 years ago. If I remember rightly everything inside was destroyed.