by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | Crosses, Hampshire, Unknown soldier
UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Location: St John’s Church Romsey Road Lockerley Hampshire SO51 0JJ Details on Cross: GRU tag UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER and plaque “1914-1918 THIS CROSS TEMPORARILY MARKED THE GRAVE OF AN UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER ON THE WESTERN FRONT AND IS...
by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | Crosses, Toc H presented, Unknown soldier, Warwickshire
UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Location: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Royal Warwickshire) Museum. Warwick Warwickshire CV34 4NF Website Details on cross: GRU UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER RL WARWICKS Text type; Three GRU tags. Cross dimensions Shaft Height: 1400-1500...
by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | Crosses, Lancashire, Museums
Thomas Lines Location: Lancashire Fusiliers Museum Bury, Lancashire BL9 ODF Website Details on cross: The cross commemorates 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Lines (2nd Salford Pals, 16th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers). A small GRU tag at the top of the cross (faded) and three...
by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | Crosses, Devon, Multiple crosses
St Michael’s, an Anglican church. “This Church was blowen up with powder Febr ye 16th Anno 1645 and rebuilt AD 1651”. This happened during the Battle of Torrington, the biggest battle ever fought in Devon. Fairfax and Cromwell defeated the Royalist army under...
by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | British Legion presented, Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Location: St. Bedes and St Clemence Toxteth Merseyside L8. Details on cross: GRU tag at top of main shaft angled left to right I.W.G.C. Metal GRU strip on cross member UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): GRU tags. Cross...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple crosses, Somerset
Location: St Andrew’s Church, Mells, Somerset, BA11 3PW An interesting site as it contains two battlefield crosses and a large memorial as well as burials for Siegfried Sassoon, Ronald Knox, Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith, George A. Birmingham (aka...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Crosses, Cumbria, Museums
Henry Bell Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life Alma Block, The Castle, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8UR T 01228 532774 enquiries@cmoml.org www.cumbriasmuseumofmilitarylife.org Details on Cross GRU Cartouche GRU GRU Tags CAPTAIN BELL 5 BORDERS 26 – 1 – 17...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Crosses, Surrey
Frederick Thomas Longhurst “Thoughts of Laventie from home” Location: St. Martin’s churchyard East Horsley Surrey KT24 6RL Details on cross: IWGC 330 99 L/CPL. LONGHURT. 2/8 WORCESTERS. 3.9.18 PLACED ON MOTHER’S GRAVE FROM LAVENTIE CEMETERY RHODA LONGHURST Text type...
by admin | Sep 22, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Yorkshire
Unknown British Soldier Location: St Hilda’s Church, Gibraltar road, Halifax West Yorkshire HX1 4HE Details on cross: At top of vertical GRU Cartouche states simply: GRU Across the horizontal arm Unknown British Soldier just below. (could this be a grave location in...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Wrexham (Clwyd)
Unknown British Soldier Christ Church Graveyard, Rossett, Nr. Wrexham Wrexham County borough (Clwyd) LL12 0GD Details on cross: This is a replica cross made in 1999 unfortunately we could not find out any more about it. There is only the cross member remaining of the...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Crosses, Derbyshire
George William Nixon Location: Rectory Road Upper Langwith Mansfield Derbyshire NG20 9RE Details on Cross: In memory of No 38665 Gnr G W Nixon 4th Bty M.M.G.S Killed in action April 28th 1918 Dimensions: Shaft height: 1600mm (63 inches) Cross beam width: 610mm (24...
by admin | Sep 20, 2016 | Crosses, Midlothian
Charles John Alexander Cowan Location: St James the Less Broomhill Road, Penicuik Midlothian EH26 9EE Details on cross: Tag at top of shaft – I.W.G.C. Three lines of metal tags: CAPT. COWAN. 12/R. SCOTS. 25.3.18. Text type: GRU metal tags Cross dimensions...
