Denston

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Reference WMO/150824

Address:

Village Green

Denston

Newmarket

CB8 8PW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A Celtic cross on a hexagonal tapered column on a hexagonal plinth(about 4 metres high overall) , all on a stone base about 1.5 meters square.
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On the East face:- TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918. Then going anti-clockwise, (face 4) BUT THE MEN / WERE VERY GOOD / UNTO US AND WE / WERE NOT HURT / THEY WERE A WALL / UNTO US BOTH BY / NIGHT AND DAY

(face 2:-) WILLIAM CARTER / 7TH ROYAL FUSILIERS / WILLIAM COOK / 15TH SUFFOLK / GEORGE MOORE / 1ST ROYAL FUSILIERS (face 3)JAMES ORBELL / 2ND ROYAL SUSSEX / DOUGLAS ORBELL / 1ST CAMBS / LEONARD RUTTER / KINGS ROYAL RIFLES (face 5:-) WALTER TAYLOR / 2ND SUFFOLKS / ARTHUR TAYLOR / 2ND SUFFOLKS (face 6:-) FRANK TWITCHETT / 16TH CANADIANS / WALTER TWITCHETT / WEST YORKS / ARCH WHITEROD / ROYAL FUSILIERS

Grade II (England)

1453951

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