by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Star of David, Unknown soldier
Unknown Jewish Soldier Location: Broadgreen Cemetery, Thomas Drive, Liverpool Merseyside L14 3LF Location: As you go through the gate of the cemetery, there is a small red brick building on the left hand side (An Ohel – Prayer House). The cross is mounted on the...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Manchester, Museums
Colin Reveley Bradshaw Location Portland Basin Museum, 1 Portland Place, Ashton-under-Lyne Tameside Greater Manchester OL7 0QA Displayed in glass case with associated First World War ephemera in the museum. From a press release 5th July 2016 The Portland Basin display...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple crosses, Suffolk
Location: St Matthew’s Church, Leavenheath, Suffolk, CO6 4PT. Leavenheath is curious. Seven crosses, one of which commemorates someone who died in a U-boat attack off Gallipoli who was unlikely to have had a cross being lost at sea. They are uniform in appearance and...
by admin | Aug 25, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Worcestershire
Location Church of Mary Magdalene Alfrick Worcestershire WR6 5HH Details on cross: Unknown British Soldier Text type (tags, carved) Tag is pressed tin 130mm long – lettering similar to old Dymo machines Cross dimensions in mm Shaft Height 1140 (approximate...
by admin | Aug 25, 2016 | Crosses, Gloucestershire
Clement Freeman-Mitford Location: St Mary’s Church Batsford Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9QB Details on cross: GRU tag at top of shaft. On the shaft, just above the cross beam, is a coloured, painted insignia of the 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own)...
by admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: St.Lukes Church, 16 Goodison Road Walton, Liverpool Merseyside L4 4EL Details on cross: The cross is dedicated to an Unknown British Soldier WGC UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Location: It is positioned near the altar on the right side of...
by admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Crosses, Gloucestershire, Unknown soldier
UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Location: St Andrew’s Church Chedworth Gloucestershire GL54 4AD Details on cross: Two GRU tags on the top of the shaft. GRU 55D9 One GRU tag on the cross beam which reads: UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Cross Dimensions: Shaft Height: 740mm...
by admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Crosses, Dorset
The Hon George Seymour Dawson-Damer Location St Peter’s Church, Winterborne Came, Dorset, DT2 8NT Details of Cross Top finial carved with R.I.P KILLED IN ACTION 13th APRIL 1917 2nd Lt. HON G DAWSON-DAMER Xth ROYAL HUSSARS Text is carved apart from a metal tag with the...
by admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Crosses, Dorset
Captain Hussey Burgh George Macartney – Royal Fusiliers Location: Church of St Ann Radipole, Weymouth Dorset Details on Cross Plain Cross Text on metal tags G.R.U. – – CAPT. R.B.G. MACCARTNEY. 1/ ROY. FUS. 25-6-15 No dimensions taken as the cross is...
by admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Cheshire, Crosses, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: Christchurch Moreton Wirral Cheshire CH46 0SG Details on cross: small piece of metal near top of shaft slanting upwards left to right with initials: IWGC. Large metal strip on cross member states UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Text type: GRU...
by admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Crosses, Suffolk
Charles Edward De La Bere Location St Mary’s ChurchParson’s Lane Barking with Darmsden, Suffolk, IP6 8HJ Details on the Cross: Metal Tag: G.R.U. Black painted lettering – very dark and difficult to read even using a torch. At top pf the shaft: R.I.P....
by admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Unknown soldier Location: St Barnabus Church Town/village: Penny Lane, Liverpool County: Merseyside Postcode: L18 1 EL Details on cross: 1 long metal GRU strip on cross member stating: Unknown British soldier Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): GRU tag...
