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...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Star of David, Unknown soldier
Unknown Jewish Soldier Location: Broadgreen Cemetery, Thomas Drive, Liverpool Merseyside L14 3LF Location: As you go through the gate of the cemetery, there is a small red brick building on the left hand side (An Ohel – Prayer House). The cross is mounted on the...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Manchester, Museums
Colin Reveley Bradshaw Location Portland Basin Museum, 1 Portland Place, Ashton-under-Lyne Tameside Greater Manchester OL7 0QA Displayed in glass case with associated First World War ephemera in the museum. From a press release 5th July 2016 The Portland Basin display...
by admin | Aug 26, 2016 | Crosses, Multiple crosses, Suffolk
Location: St Matthew’s Church, Leavenheath, Suffolk, CO6 4PT. Leavenheath is curious. Seven crosses, one of which commemorates someone who died in a U-boat attack off Gallipoli who was unlikely to have had a cross being lost at sea. They are uniform in appearance and...
by admin | Aug 25, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Worcestershire
Location Church of Mary Magdalene Alfrick Worcestershire WR6 5HH Details on cross: Unknown British Soldier Text type (tags, carved) Tag is pressed tin 130mm long – lettering similar to old Dymo machines Cross dimensions in mm Shaft Height 1140 (approximate...
by admin | Aug 25, 2016 | Crosses, Gloucestershire
Clement Freeman-Mitford Location: St Mary’s Church Batsford Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9QB Details on cross: GRU tag at top of shaft. On the shaft, just above the cross beam, is a coloured, painted insignia of the 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own)...
by admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: St.Lukes Church, 16 Goodison Road Walton, Liverpool Merseyside L4 4EL Details on cross: The cross is dedicated to an Unknown British Soldier WGC UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER Location: It is positioned near the altar on the right side of...
