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”...
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 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 | 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 22, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Yorkshire
Unknown British Soldier Location: St Hilda’s Church, Gibraltar road, Halifax West Yorkshire HX1 4HE Details on cross: At top of vertical GRU Cartouche states simply: GRU Across the horizontal arm Unknown British Soldier just below. (could this be a grave location in...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Crosses, Unknown soldier, Wrexham (Clwyd)
Unknown British Soldier Christ Church Graveyard, Rossett, Nr. Wrexham Wrexham County borough (Clwyd) LL12 0GD Details on cross: This is a replica cross made in 1999 unfortunately we could not find out any more about it. There is only the cross member remaining of the...
by admin | Sep 5, 2016 | Cheshire, Crosses, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: St Barnabas Church Bromborough Wirral Cheshire CH62 7AA Details on cross: GRU metal strip at top of cross, Metal strip on cross member Unknown British Soldier Text type: GRU tags Cross dimensions (millimetres please) Approximate...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Merseyside, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: Christ Church, Breeze Hill, Bootle, Liverpool Merseyside L20 9EY Details on cross: WGC Unknown British Soldier It is positioned at the front on of the church, on the right hand side as you go in in the brickwork of an arch Text type:...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Crosses, Fabian Ware presented, Gloucestershire, Unknown soldier
Unknown British Soldier Location: Holy Trinity church Amberley, Gloucestershire, GL5 5JG. Details on cross: GRU Unknown British Soldier Text type: GRU tags Cross dimensions: Standard BRitish Army Cross Cross to an unknown soldier. This one has two tags. The short GRU...
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...
