by admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
Edith Cavell was born in Swardeston and was executed in Brussels for helping 200 or more Allied soldiers. Memorials to her at St Mary’s church include the East Window and the village War Memorial by the south entrance to the churchyard. The Cavell Room through...
by admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Crosses, London, Museums
EDITH CAVELL Location The Royal London Hospital Museum St Augustine with St Philip’s Church Newark Street London E1 2AA http://bartshealth.nhs.uk/rlhmuseum The cross on display in the museum was put up on the site of her grave after her body was removed, c.1919....
by admin | Oct 11, 2016 | Crosses, Schools & Colleges, Wiltshire
John Lindsay Kelsall Location: Marlborough College Chapel Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 1PA Details on cross: Top of shaft: GRU On cross beam: LIEUT J L KELSALL B/86 ARMY BDE RFA 27/8/17 Text type: GRU tags Cross Dimensions: Shaft height: 1140mm Cross beam width: 410mm...
by admin | Oct 11, 2016 | Crosses, Surrey
Harold Montagu Newnham Chatterton Location: All Saints church, Sanderstead, Surrey CR2 9AB Details on cross: RIP IN MEMORY OF 2ND LIEUT. H. M. N. Chatterton 9TH QUEENS R.W.S. REGT KILLED 18TH JUNE 1916 Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Carved Cross...
by admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple crosses, Somerset
Location: St George’s Parish Church, Beckington, Somerset, BA11 6TG Survey and photographs courtesy of Alasdair Mackie. Date of survey: 23/09/2016 OLIVER J VINER Details on cross: GRU 9089 SGT O. J. VINER. K. R. R. C. 14/7/16 Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU...
by admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Crosses, Nottinghamshire, Private collection
Francis Brady Location: Private dwelling Southwell Nottingham NG25 Details on cross GRU4 17551 PTE F BRADY 2ND NOTTS & DERBY REGIMENT 24TH SEPTEMBER 1916 J393 Text type: GRU Tags (One tag appears to be missing) Cross dimensions (millimetres please) Shaft Height:...
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...
