Bootle – Christ Church, Liverpool

Bootle – Christ Church, Liverpool

Unknown British Soldier Location: Christ Church, Breeze Hill, Bootle, Liverpool Merseyside L20 9EY Details on cross: WGC Unknown British Soldier It is positioned at the front on of the church, on the right hand side as you go in in the brickwork of an arch Text type:...
Redcar – St Peters, North Yorkshire

Redcar – St Peters, North Yorkshire

Stewart Gordon Ridley & L.S. Garside Location: Saint Peters Church Redcar North Yorkshire TS10 3JL Details on cross: top crest RFC LIEUT: SG RIDLEY RFC 18th JUNE 1916 1st AM J S GARSIDE 20th JUNE 1916 The cross is high up on the west wall of the Lady Chapel and is...
In memory of Riddles

In memory of Riddles

The Battlefield Cross in Saint Peters Church Redcar is that of 2nd Lieutenant Stewart Gordon Ridley with an additional citation for First Airman J.S. Garside. It was originally placed in the Minia War Memorial Cemetery on the eastern fringes of the Western desert. The...
Tewkesbury Abbey – Glocestershire

Tewkesbury Abbey – Glocestershire

Walter Roberts Location: Tewkesbury Abbey Church Street Tewkesbury Gloucestershire GL20 5RZ Details on cross: In Memory of (hardly legible – looks like) N75419 GR ROBERTS. KILLED IN ACTION 2-7-18 There is also text on the diagonals – the top two bars are barely...
Woodbridge Old Cemetery – Suffolk

Woodbridge Old Cemetery – Suffolk

Geoffrey Charles Drury Theobald Location Woodbridge Old Cemetery, Warren Hill Road, Woodbridge, IP12 4DZ Details on Cross: In Memorium Geoffrey C.D. Theobald Staff Sergeant A.O.C. Died of Wounds March 6th; 1917 From his Comrades: the Officers N.C.O’s and Men 146 Siege...
Malvern Priory – Worcestershire

Malvern Priory – Worcestershire

Location: Malvern Priory Malvern Worcestershire WR14 2AY There are no longer any crosses in Malvern Priory. Until recently there were 11 crosses outside at the East End of the Priory. The remaining bases are in the photographs All bar one of the crosses disintegrated...
Melby – Shetland

Melby – Shetland

Unknown Location: St Margaret’s Church (now disused) Melby Shetland Details on cross: On the cross beam 1917 Text type Carved Cross dimensions (millimetres please) Shaft Height: 630 Cross beam width: 510 Width of wood: 110 Thickness or depth:  50 Other information...