Wendron

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Reference WMO/143191

Address:

St Gwendron Church

Wendron

TR13 0EA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Standing on the top of the wall on the edge of the churchyard of St. Wendrona, overlooking the B3297 road.A rough granite celtic wheel cross upon a square plinth standing on a square base. The front face contains the general commemoration for WW1. The other three faces contain the names of the fallen, giving surname first, followed by the first names and their residence location. The right face contains 10 names, the left face 13 names and the rear face 3 names of Wendron men, and a further 4 names of Pencoys men. The Wendron names follow an alphabetical sequence on each face, but not a consecutive sequence. No ranks, units or dates of death are given. On a wall at the rear of the cross is a granite tablet listing the names of 27 men who died in WW2, listed alphabetically by surname, including full first names, but with no ranks, units or residence locations.
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CROSS 6 O'CLOCK FACE: "LEST WE FORGET"/ TO THE/ SACRED MEMORY/ OF ALL THOSE FROM THIS/ PARISH OF WENDRON/ FOUGHT AND DIED/ FOR GOD AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ "THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO DEATH THEREFORE/ ARE THEY BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD." 3 O'CLOCK FACE: "THEY DIED FOR YOU."/ (NAMES) 9 AND 12 O'CLOCK FACE: (NAMES) WALL: IN REMEMBRANCE 1939 - 45./ (NAMES)

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