Location: North aisle.
Studio: Henry Wynd Young; Galahad designed by John Gordon Guthrie.
Memorial Inscriptions:
Shields of the Allies—In memory of the men and women of this Church who served in the World War.
Galahad—In memory of Harold Kidder Bulkley, Lieutenant of Aviation, U.S. Army Reserve—February 18, 1918. (Harold Kidder Bulkley was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Bulkley. )
Date: 1919

0n the north aisle of the nave are two windows, both from the Young Studio and both memorials to Church members who gave their lives in World War I.

On the left as you face the north wall is a narrow lancet window which bears heraldic devices in the form of shields representing the Allies of the first World War. Starting at the lower left corner and reading up, we see Portugal with the seven castles captured by its first king and the five marks representing the wounds of Christ; Greece with its white cross on a field of blue and three golden lions; Japan with the red and white rays of the rising sun; Serbia with the double eagle and the cross; Italy with a white cross on a red field; Belgium with a fierce lion rampant; Britain with the quartered shield for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; France with the tricolor and the bound sheaf of governmental unity and at the top the stars and stripes of the United States. Above the shields in smaller sections appear the dates 1914 and 1919 and an angel over all holding the word "Vitrix," Victory. Below the top three shields a scroll bears the words, "Lord God of Hosts be with us yet" from Kipling's poem "Recessional." Birds perch in the branches of a vine on which the shields are hung. A lion crouches at the foot of the vine and above his body is a banner bearing the memorial inscription.

The window picturing Sir Galahad with the angel bearing the Holy Grail is a memorial to a young pilot killed in World War I. The angel holds the shining Chalice of the Last Supper as the young knight kneels before her, his lance and shield set aside, his helmet at the angel's feet. Above the angel's head is a small Crucifix and above the knight's head a crown of victory over the Latin words "Via Crucis, Via Lucis"—the way of the Cross, the way of light. In the exquisitely wrought canopy and border design may be found small statues of all the knights of the Round Table. King Arthur himself is in the border just below the Chalice and in the neighboring border beside him we find Sir Lancelot.

In the quatrefoil at the very top an angel holds a banner with the inscription, "Neither life nor death shall separate us from the love of God." (Rom. 8:38-39)

Underneath the figure of Sir Galahad three small angels play their instruments of praise and beneath the angel of the Holy Grail three more angels hold the appropriate inscription, "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31)

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