by admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Bristol, Crosses, Multiple crosses, Somerset
STANLEY HERBERT HALL & J W GITTINGS Location: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Abbots Leigh, Bristol, BS8 3QT Cross 1 25927 Lance Corporal Stanley Herbert Hill, 7th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry Details on cross: Inscription (on shaft, beam, and on circle plate):...
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 | 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 2, 2016 | Crosses, German, Somerset
Richard Neville Strutt Location: St Catherines Church Catherine’s Court Batheaston Somerset BA1 8HA Details on cross: Hard to read due to fading – on cross beam Z T (?) Strutt, on shaft 2 Lt Strutt R Scots – maybe cross beam by German and rest added...
by admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Crosses, Somerset, Unknown soldier
Unknown Soldier Location: Church of St Mary the Virgin Town/village: Norton Sub Hamdon County: Somerset Postcode: TA14 6SU Details on cross: A – 15 (printed on diagonal tag top of the main shaft.) Unknown British Soldier (on metal GRU tag) Cross dimensions Unable to...
by admin | Jul 25, 2016 | Crosses, Museums, Somerset
Captain C C Maud DSO 1st Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action at Ploegsteert, December 1914. Location: Museum of Somerset, Taunton, Somerset Details on Cross: Text in black paint IN LOVING MEMORY OF CAPT.C.C.MAUD DSO 1st SOMERSET. L.I. KILLED ACTION 19.12.14...
