by Ali | Aug 23, 2017 | 1918, Crosses, West Midlands
CAPT. C. MARTINEAU Location: St Alphege, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3RB Details on cross: Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): 4 Metal Tags. 3 horizontal detailing the casualty; CAPT. C. MARTINEAU. R. WARWICK. REGT. 5 – 5 – 18 . 1 on top the...
by Ali | Aug 21, 2017 | Crosses, Other material, Uncertain provenance, Yorkshire
Coy. Q. M. Sgt Harry Dawson Location: Selby Abbey, The Crescent, Selby, York, YO8 4PU Details on cross: In loving memory of Coy: Q. M. Sergt Harry Dawson 1st/6th W. Yorks. Who died of gun-shot wounds 3rd June 1915 in his 48th year. Grave H.81. Text type (e.g....
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1915, Crosses, lost markers, Surrey
Capt. H R Townsend Green Location: Saint Saviour’s Church, Connaught Rd, Brookwood, Woking GU24 0AS Details on Plaque (Cross has rotted away): Queen’s Westminster Rifles Capt. H R Townsend Green 3rd March 1915 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Text type (e.g....
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1918, Crosses, Hampshire
Lieut. W. Ogilvy Location address: Holy Cross Church, Binsted, Alton, GU34 4NX Details on cross : G.R.U Lieut. W. Ogilvy 23.3.18 Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): GRU metal Tags Cross dimensions (millimetres)- did not have tape measure so had to...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1917, Crosses, Leicestershire
Lieut S Wing Location: St Peter and St Pauls Church, Teigh Road, Market Overton, Rutland, LE15 7PW Details on cross: In memory of Lieut S Wing 65th How’s Battery RFA Killed in Action 10/8/17 RIP Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Black paint Other...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1915, Crosses, Duplicates, Leicestershire
Lieut. Col, Percy Evans-Freke Location: St John the Baptist : Church Lane, Bisbrooke, Rutland, LE15 9EL Details on cross 1: RIP In memory of Lieut. Col, Percy Evans-Freke Leicestershire Yeomanry Killed on active service XIII.V.XV Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1917, Crosses, Staffordshire
MAJOR, THE HON.R.N.D.RYDER Location address: North wall of the Chancel in All Saints Church, Church Lane, Sandon, Staffordshire, ST18 0DB Details on cross: IN (on top of shaft) LOVING (LH top brace) MEMORY (RH top brace) OF (on top of shaft) MAJOR, THE HON.R.N.D.RYDER...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | Boer War, Crosses, Warwickshire
LIEUT-COLONEL ARTHUR. EDMUND THURSBY – BOER WAR Location: Church of St Mary,Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire, CV47 7SN Details on cross: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF Surrounding IHS christogram LEIUT.-COLONEL. ARTHUR. EDMUND. THURSBY. 5th . ROYAL. WARWICKSHIRE. REGIMENT...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1917, 1918, Buckinghamshire, Crosses, Multiple crosses
LIEUT. P. A. D. JACKSON & BRIG GEN SIR W. A. I. KAY BART. C.M.G. D S.O. Location: St Michael & All Angels, Thornton, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0HH LIEUT. P. A. D. JACKSON Details on cross: IN LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUT. P. A. D. JACKSON 2ND BATT. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES....
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1917, Crosses, Museums, Suffolk
2-Lieut W L Lovell Location: Martlesham Heath Aviation Society, Martlesham, Ipswich IP5 3UZ Details on cross: GRU A-8 2-Lieut W L Lovell R.W. Kent Regt. Attd. R.F.C Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): GRU tags Other information Evidence of use in field...
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1918, Crosses, Surrey
PTE. F.C.B. COWARD Location address: Leatherhead Parish Church (St Mary & St Nicholas), Church Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8BD Details on cross: Top: I.W.G.C Crossbeam: 510102. PTE. F.C.B. COWARD, A Coy. 1st/14th Bn., London 1/4. LONDON. 29.8.18 Text type (e.g....
by Ali | Aug 15, 2017 | 1916, County Armagh, Crosses, Duplicates
J.S.M. LENOX CONYNGHAM Location: Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum, Regimental Museum, Sovereign House, The Mall, Armagh, BT61 9DL Details on cross: On the upper shaft: RIP On the cross beam: Lieut Col J.S.M. LENOX CONYNGHAM On lower shaft in a stylised ribbon Sept 3rd...
