Silloth Civic Memorial

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Reference WMO/173535

Address:

Christ Church Gardens

Criffel Street

Silloth

CA7 4NJ

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 Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Hexagonal step surmounted by hexagonal plinth, cornice, tapered shaft and small Patte cross. Inscription in black lettering on the sides of the plinth., red granite See pages 25-27 of 'Cumbria' magazine, July 2014 for details of Sam Borthwick, Joe Johnston, Edgar Sisson Swan, Gordon Brown and PO John Jefferson - the 5 (of 12) members of the Carrs branch of the Royal Naval Reserve, who served and died at Gallipoli with the RND Collingwood Battalion. Borthwick, Johnston & ES Swan died at Suvla Bay. Brown and Jefferson died at the 3rd battle of Krihia Listed Grade II, list entry number 1457909.
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LIBERTY/ TO THE/ GLORIOUS DEAD/ IN HONOUR AND/ LOVING APPRECIATION/ OF THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918./ AND/ 1939 - 1945./ 'LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND/ WE FOR ENGLAND DIED.'/ 'THEY WERE A WALL/ UNTO US, BOTH BY/ NIGHT AND BY DAY.'/

(Working in an anti-clockwise direction round the memorial from the dedication face): SIDE 1 1916/SERGT J.E. SYKES/BORDER REGT CORPL J. MCSKIMMINGS/BORDER REGT CORPL E.L. DIXON/DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE J. TOFT/ROYAL FUSILIERS E.R.B. R. GLAISTER/R.N.V.R. PRIVATE W. NICHOL/CANADIAN FIELD AMBULANCE PRIVATE W. WANNOP/BORDER REGT PRIVATE C. BLACKBURN/BORDER REGT PRIVATE J. CARRUTHERS/BORDER REGT PRIVATE J. CULLEY/BORDER REGT PRIVATE H. LENNY/BORDER REGT 1917/PRIVATE J. HOLLIDAY/LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE SIDE 2 1918/LIEUT A.E. WHITE M.C./CANADIANS CHIEF OFFICER D. MCCALLUM/H.M.T. 140 CADET J.H.B. KEGGS M.M. CANADIANS CADET N.G. DIXON/R.A. FORCE SERGT W.D. ELLIOTT/BORDER REGT CORPL T. PIGG/BORDER REGT PRIVATE J.B. LITTLETON/AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE W. ARCHER/WEST YORKS PRIVATE M. DODD/CANADIANS STOKER E. ELLIOTT R.N./HMS SPIRAEA PRIVATE F. GRAHAM/BORDER REGT PRIVATE MAX AIKIN/BORDER REGT PRIVATE E. EMMERSON/CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY LIEUT J.A. WHEATLEY R.N./HM SUBMARINE L10 SIDE 3 1940/JONATHAN CARR/ARTHUR HUGH DOBREE/JAMES ERIC EDWARDS/JOHN HUGHES 1941/CALEB DIXON S.BROUGH 1942/JOHN KEDDLE/ALEXANDER ARCHIBALD KERR/JOHN TITTERINGTON/THOMAS WOOD 1943/JOHN CREIGHTON/THOMAS JAMES DALEY 1944/NORMAN CECIL COSTELOE M.C./ROBERT DIXON/WILLIAM JAMES GILBERTON 1945/JOYCE BYERS/ 1943/AUSTIN EVELEIGH ROBINSON SIDE 4 1917/3RD OFFICER W.C. IRVING/S.S. SYCAMORE SERGT F.W. ACCLETON DCM MM/R.F. ARTILLERY SERGT B. BARTON/DUKE OF WELLINGTONS RGT L/CPL F.M. OSBORNE/BORDER REGT L/CPL C. WANNOP/M.C. SECTION PRIVATE D.J. GRAHAM/BORDER REGT PRIVATE T. BELL/BORDER REGT PRIVATE A. BARTON/CHESHIRES PRIVATE C. HOWE/CANADIAN FIELD AMBULANCE PRIVATE W. HOWE/BORDER REGT PRIVATE R. SAUNDERS/MANCHESTERS PRIVATE B. WIGHTMAN/AUSTRALIANS FIREMAN J.J. CAVAGHAN/TRANSPORT “TREVERBYN” J.H. CORRY/MUNITION WORKER SIDE 5 1914/ASSIST CLERK C.T. MARTIN R.N./HMS MONMOUTH 1915/LIEUT J.A. CARTER WOOD/COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1ST CLASS PETTY OFFICER/T. RICHARDSON R.N/HMS FORMIDABLE PETTY OFFICER J.J. UNDERWOOD/R.N.D. A.B. J. JOHNSTON/R.N.D. A.B. E. SWAN/R.N.D. A.B. S. BORTHWICK/R.N.D. PRIVATE J.M. MACFARLANE/BORDER REGT PRIVATE A. BENNETT/BORDER REGT PRIVATE W.J. HODGSON/K.O.R.L. A.B. S.C. BROWN/RND

Grade II (England)

1457909

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