by admin | Sep 30, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: St Johns Birkdale, Southport Merseyside PR8 4JP Details on cross: GRU Unknown British Soldier Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): 2 tags – ‘GRU’ at the top of the cross and ‘Unidentified British...
by admin | Sep 30, 2016 | Crosses, Essex, incomplete survey
Richard C Gore Details on Cross Unavailable Dimensions Unavailable The marker is for WR/500839 Sapper Richard C. Gore R.E., who died from the effects of influenza on 13th November 1918. His original wooden cross now lies within Little Thurrock parish church near...
by admin | Sep 29, 2016 | Cheshire, Crosses
Alan Scott Balfour Location: St Saviours Oxton, Prenton, Wirral Cheshire CH43 2JZ Details on cross: Small metal GRU tag at top of shaft, also circular brass plaque on centre of cross. 2 small holes above tag where presumably another tag had been. There is a circle of...
by admin | Sep 27, 2016 | Crosses, Midlothian
Patrick Seton Fraser-Tytler Location: Glencorse Parish Church, Penicuik Midlothian EH26 0EU Details on cross: Top of the shaft: a G.R.U. metal tag G.R.U. On the shaft above the cross beam: RIP in Memory of On the cross beam: Capt; P.S. Fraser-Tytler D (How;) Battery...
by admin | Sep 27, 2016 | Cheshire, Crosses, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: All Saints Church Raby Road Thornton Hough, Wirral Cheshire CH63 1JP Details on cross There is a metal tag on the cross member Unknown British Soldier Text type: GRU tags. Cross dimensions (millimetres please) Shaft Height: 974mm...
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...
