Battle of Loos Cross

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Reference WMO/143610

Address:

St Sepulchre without Newgate Church

Holborn Viaduct

London

EC1A 2DQ

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Battlefield (wooden) cross
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Battlefield cross, which originally marked the mass grave of 87 officers and men at Loos. It was brought home by the Rev. A. E. Wilkinson, and dedicated at his parish of St James Croydon on 16th May 1920, together with an explanatory tablet made of three shades of marble, the work of Arthur Hook. The cross and tablet were displayed on the east wall of the church, near the choir (details from Croydon Times, 19th May 1920). St James Church was declared redundant in 1980, and the cross and tablet were moved to St Sepulchre's, where they are displayed immediately inside the church.
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[cross] [illegible from online photos] [tablet] This cross commemorates nearly / 100 officers and men of the 6th. Battalion / London Regiment, who fell in action / at the Battle of Loos, on September / 25. 1915, and were buried on the field / on the night of September 28. / It stood upon the battlefield for / over three years, and was replaced / by a more permanent cross in / February 1919. / "Their bodies are buried in peace, / but their name liveth for evermore."

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