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Reference WMO/157037

Address:

The Green

Datchet

Slough

SL3 9EH

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Prominent in centre of village green opposite parish church. Designed by Sir Lionel Cust (Keeper of King's Pictures) who lived in Datchet, Six-sided, narrower sides with Army, Navy, Air Force heraldry, wider panels with inscriptions. Low-relief sculpture frieze above with aircraft, tank, bomb, submarine, gas mask, torpedo (?). On top is an urn with garlands. Funded by public inscription Nov 1919. Unveiled by Lord Carrington May 1920. WWII names added in panel at foot 1989. Kept in good repair by Parish Council and RBL. Aeroplane panel (S face, upper) replaced about 3 years ago due to severe erosion of original.
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Panel one: THIS MONUMENT/ IS ERECTED BY INHABITANTS OF DATCHET/ TO COMMEMORATE THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1919/ AND THE GLORIOUS VICTORY OF/ THE BRITISH FORCES AND THEIR ALLIES/ BY SEA ON LAND AND IN THE AIR/ OVER THE COMBINED FORCES OF/ GERMANY AUSTRIA TURKEY AND BULGARIA/ ALSO/ TO RECORD THE SHARE TAKEN BY THIS/ VILLAGE IN PROMOTING THIS VICTORY/ AND/ TO PAY GRATEFUL AND REVERENT TRIBUTE/ TO THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND FREEDOM Panel two: THE NAMES HERE RECORDED/ ARE OF THOSE INHABITANTS OF/ DATCHET/ WHO AT THE CALL OF DUTY LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY(names) MOURN NOT FOR THEM/ FOR THEY CAN NEVER DIE Panel three: THE NUMBERS HERE RECORDED/ ARE OF THOSE INHABITANTS OF/ DATCHET/ WHO BY ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE/ IN FOREIGN LANDS OF IN THIS COUNTRY/ OR BY SERVICES RENDERED AT HOME/ CONTRIBUTED TO THE GREAT VICTORY/ WHICH THIS MONUMENT COMMEMORATES/ IN THE NAVAL MILITARY AND TERRITORIAL FORCES BEFORE THE WAR 40/ JOINED THE FORCES DURING THE WAR/ 322/ SERVED ABROAD OR AT HOME IN THE RED CROSS SOCIETY, THE VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS, AS SPECIAL CONSTABLES, IN THE VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT OR IN THE HOSPITAL SUPPLY DEPOT 142

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