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Reference WMO/117587

Address:

Market Square

Clare

Sudbury

CO10 8NN

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Latin cross
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Clare war memorial is an octagonal Celtic cross memorial, approx. 19ft high, and is constructed from Clipsham stone, which is a type of limestone. It is located in Market Place, Clare. The base of the memorial has flint detailing on all faces with the second, third and fourth tiers having inscribed and painted names of the fallen from World War I and II. On the four panels at the base of the cross are carved the Arms of Clare, the Suffolk Regiment and those of St Edmund and St George. The memorial was unveiled by Colonel, Sir Courtenay Warner Bart., and dedicated by Canon W.T.Farmilae on 23rd October 1921. The memorial was built by F.J.Lindley of Sudbury. The unveiling ceremony was reported in the Suffolk Free Press of 26th October 1921 Re-dedicated in 1948, in 2010 a grant was given by the War Memorial Trust of £2,945 towards the total cost of £5,897 for repairs and renovation of the memorial.
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Around the base, with panels decorated with flints, in Old English script "In grateful memory of the men of Clare who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. They died for freedom and honour"

The WW1 names are on the risers of the top two step, two names to each face at each level, anti clockwise from under the Arms of Clare (face 1) Fred Bareham, Herbert A.Bareham, Percy A.Bareham, Victor Bareham, (face 2) William Bareham, Donald W Buck, Walter Byford, Colin Campbell, (face 3) Duncan Campbell, Joseph J.Dare, James Dearsley, Frederick Dyson, (face 4) William Dyson, Herbert French, William C.Ghyrn, Freddy Ince, (face 5) John C.Ince, William Ince, Bertie Jarvis, Alfred Levell, (face 6) Fred Martin, Harry Martin, William Martin, John Meekings, (face 7) William G.Mizon, Henry T.Parker, George Parsonson, Herbert Pask, (face 8) George Smith, Robert Willis Stanley Wright, Bennett G.Maxim, One the lower step faces, are the WW2 names ...anti clockwise from the Arms of Clare: 1914-1918 * Ernest G.Hulyer * We will remember them * James H W Dunn * 1939-1945 * Leslie Dyson * Dennis Mingay * Maurice A.V.Bareham

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Grade II (England)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1436461

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