by admin | Oct 21, 2016 | Crosses, Surrey
Ronnie Pease Location: St John The Evangelist Merrow, Guildford Surrey GU4 7AA Details on cross: In Memory of LIEUT.R.H.P.PEASE 1st Battn Coldstream GDS Killed In Action 15-9-1916 Text type: Writing is in raised black lettering, and is on the square plate, shaft and...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | Crosses, Gwynedd, incomplete survey
Bangor cathedral church has a very long history dating back to the foundation of Deniol’s cell in the sixth century. It suffered at the hands of the Vikings and the English. It still stands and has it’s own cross from the Battlefields of the First World...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | Crosses, Surrey
A curious pair of crosses both for the same man. Henry Cubitt Cross 1 Location: St Barnabas Ranmore Surrey RH5 6SP Details on cross: Captain H. A. Cubitt 3rd.Bn. Coldstream Guards Killed in Action 15.9.16 Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Text is carved...
by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Crosses, incomplete survey, London
J Montague Location Countess Close Harefield, Uxbridge UB9 6DL Details on cross: 1.F.9 5281 PTE. J. MONTAGUE 9TH ROYAL FUSILIERS 30-6-17 Text type: GRU tags Cross dimensions Currently Unknown – appears to be a standard British Army Cross. Other information: Currently...
by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Crosses, incomplete survey, Yorkshire
George Bell Purvis Location Bridlington Priory Church, Church Green, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, Y016 7JX Details on cross: CAPT G B PURVIS 8-6-17 56-M G C Text type: GRU tags Cross dimensions Currently Unknown – appears to be a standard British Army Cross....
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Crosses, Museums, Northumberland
Francis Harry Harvey Location: Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland Alnwick Castle Alnwick Northumberland NE66 1NG Museum website Museum is located within the Alnwick Castle grounds in Abbot Tower. The cross is in its own lighted display cabinet, on the wall, on the...
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Crosses, Northamptonshire
William Geoffrey Walford Location: St Bartholomew’s Church Greens Norton Northamptonshire NN12 8BN Details on cross: In Memory Capt WG Walford, 62 Squad. R.A.F. Killed in Action 4th Nov 1918 Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Hand written in Black Cross...
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Crosses, Isle of Wight, Multiple crosses, Uncertain provenance, Unknown soldier
Unknown Location: Carisbrooke Cemetery (Mount Joy cemetery). Isle of Wight PO30 1YS Details on crosses: Three crosses standing against chapel wall, below a stone plaque which reads 1915 HERO’S CORNER IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN Their duty...
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Crosses, Surrey, Uncertain provenance
PHILIP MIGHELL Location: St Mary’s Church, Beddington, Surrey SM6 7NJ Details on cross: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BROTHER LIEUT PHILIP MIGHELL 9th EAST SURREYS ATTACHED TO ROYAL FLYING CORPS BORN 1893 DIED OF WOUNDS AT AGNES- LES DUISANS 12.10.17 Plaque at base of cross...
by admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog
Captain Geoffrey George Gunnis, MC 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, May 7th, 1896 – October 13th, 1916 Geoffrey was born at 67 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, in London, on May 7th, 1896. He was the first of three sons born to Francis George Gunnis, an East India Co...
by admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple crosses, Oxforshire
Multiple crosses at St Peter and St Paul, Deddington, Oxfordshire St. Peter and St. Paul Church is in the civil parish of Deddington, about 6 miles south of Banbury. From Banbury, on reaching the village, turn left at the lights, then bear right into Market Place...
by admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Cheshire, Crosses, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: Parkgate and Neston URC Moorside Lane, Parkgate, Cheshire, CH64 6UZ Details on cross: Near the top of the main shaft pointing upwards left to right is a GRU tag 2-G-4. Metal GRU tag on cross member “Unknown British Soldier”...
