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Bideford war memorial

Bideford war memorial

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Bideford war memorial consists of a stone wall and flagpole and lists the names of those from the local school who served in the First and Second World Wars.

A poignant aspect of the memorial is that the soldiers who were killed in the wars (indicated on the memorial) appear to be from one family - Norman Edgar Carswell and George Alexander Carswell in the First World War and Norman Alexander Carswell in the Second World War.

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Credit

Trevor Cree, 2010 (Flickr). Reproduced with permission. See also Trevor's travelling blog about visiting Bideford.

How to cite this page

'Bideford war memorial', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/bideford-war-memorial-0, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Feb-2017

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Lorna Croft

Posted: 27 Apr 2014

Norman Carswell went over to war and left my grand mother pregnant and never came back he left a son norman Alexander who at five became Croft and for my children who are his grand children would like to know about him and where he is buried.