Halling, St John's Church

Halling, St John's Church
This photograph dates from after 1918, when the German field gun was placed outide the lych gate as a memorial to Sergeant Thomas Harris, VC, who won the award during the 1914-18 war. It remained there until it was removed for scrap during the 1939-45 conflict.
Content generated during research for the paperback book 'The Medway Valley: A Kent Landscape Transformed' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-600-7) for the England's Past for Everyone series