The 'Prie dieux', in St. Thomas à Becket Church, Tilshead.  And, placed upon it, the wooden plaque commemorating the men of 8th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, who were based during the 1939-45 war in a temporary camp to the North of Tilshead.  The battalion played a decisive part in 1944 in the early part of the Normandy battles and later in the crossing of the River Rhine.  The plaque reads: 'In memory of the young men of the 8th Battalion Midland Counties, the Parachute Regiment, who found much peace and tranquillity in this village 1943-1945.
[Photographer: Michael Teale]