by admin | Aug 31, 2016 | Crosses, propellor, Worcestershire
Herbert Cecil Cutler Location: City of Worcester Museum and Art Gallery Worcester Worcestershire WR1 1TD Details on cross: Cross formed from aeroplane propeller: Small GRU tag: “GRU 3” Text on propeller hub: Lt. H. C. CUTLER 24 SQDN KILLED IN ACTION 10. 5. 17 WORC....
by admin | Aug 31, 2016 | Battalion or division, Crosses, Ross and Cromarty
4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Location: Station Square Dingwall Ross & Cromarty IV15 9PZ Details on cross: NOTE: The cross is constructed of a tree branch for both shaft and cross beam (recently restored in 2014). On the shaft below the cross beam there are 9...
by admin | Aug 31, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple names, Worcestershire
Arthur James Basil Butcher and S F Johnson Location St. Mary’s Kempsey Worcestershire WR5 3JH St. Mary’s is located between Lane’s End and Squire’s walk. Details on cross: Cross commemorates two men, very difficult to read – See below Text type (tags, carved) GRU Tag...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
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:...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Fabian Ware presented, Gloucestershire, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: Holy Trinity church Amberley, Gloucestershire, GL5 5JG. Details on cross: GRU Unknown British Soldier Text type: GRU tags Cross dimensions: Standard BRitish Army Cross Cross to an unknown soldier. This one has two tags. The short GRU...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple names, 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...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
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...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Gloucestershire
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...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, 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...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Inverness shire, Multiple names
6th Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Location: Old High St Stephen’s Church Church Street, Inverness Inverness shire IV1 1EY NOTE: The cross is a collective memorial to the officers and men of 6th Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders who fell at the...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, lost markers, 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...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Shetland, Unknown soldier
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...
