Bacton War Memorial

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Reference WMO/118018

Address:

Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Road

Bacton

IP14 4LJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Lettering: Incised
About the memorial: Standing in the churchyard to the north of the church, next to the path leading to Church Road. A 2.3 metre tall memorial of Aberdeen granite, comprising a blind wheel cross on a tapering shaft, upon a tapered. square plinth, set on a two-stepped, rough-hewn square base. The wheel of the cross is decorated with a wreath, carved in relief. The general commemoration appears on the front face of the base, with the fallen of WW1 listed on the adjacent faces. The fallen of WW2 are listed at the bottom of the shaft.
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(Wheel) THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE (Base) IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF BACTON WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 -- -- HONOUR TO THE IMMORTAL DEAD (Shaft) 1939-1945 (Names)

(WW1) GEORGE AUSTIN / HORACE BAKER / WILLIAM BETTS / JOHN L. BUCKINGHAM / WILLIAM BUCKINGHAM / EDWARD CAGE / EDWIN A. CASTELL / STANLEY W. CULLEY / WILLIAM EASTELL / STANLEY J. WELHAM / FREDERICK FARROW / JACK FOWLES / HENRY FULLER / JOHN JAMES / JOHN NUNN / GEORGE A. PEARCE / SAMUEL SHAYE / RICHARD WOODS / ALEC W. MARSH (WW2) NORMAN CLARKE / SIDNEY ELMER / DONALD HARVEY / CLAUDE KERRIDGE / DONALD LOCKWOOD / RONALD MOSS / ALFRED OSBOURNE / EDWARD QUINTON

Grade II (England)

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