Rainham, Medway, Kent

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Reference WMO/126742

Address:

High Street

Rainham

ME8 7JH

England

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Unknown cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: Owned by Medway Council
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THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE/ INHABITANTS OF RAINHAM IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE GALLANT MEN FROM/ THIS PARISH WHO IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1919 GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ SONS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP/ 'HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY'/ ISAIAH XXV.8/

Among those listed on the war memorial are:T H Anderson, J A G Ashby, B J Baker, F C Baker, J R Baker, P C Baker, L Bartlett, F A Bartlett, R E Black, W Blackman, J Bolton, ** Botting, Bowra****, *** Burr, E C Carter, F E Chambers, H J Champion, F J Cheal, A Cheeseman, W F Cheeseman, G A Chittenden, W S Clarke, F Coe, A E Cook, R C Croucher, W Croucher, S L Daniels, E H Davison, J Drain, S Eames, W J T Edwards, H Godden, T W Goldsmith, I Gooding, A J Goodwin, J R Goodwin, S C Gore, H L Greenhalgh, A B Hadlow, C W Haigh, *** Holdstock, *** Holdstock, A C Kitney, W C Lockyer, J C Martin, T Mattocks, A Millen, M E Naylor, H Nichols, H ** Nutt, *** Orchard, E Pilcher, G E Ralph, S R Rayner, A J Roof, T C Russell, J Sawkins, B L Sellen, W Sellen, J Sharman, A R Sheaff, P Springate, P C Stringer, F C Swan, T R Swan, J Taylor, H W Taylor, A Tills, H J Trigg, R Udern, Although not inscribed on the memorial bomb disposal specialist, Capt Dan Read, killed in Afghanistan in 2010, is remembered by a photo memorial on the stepos of the war memorial.

Grade II (Wales)

1448409

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