Houghton WW1

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Reference WMO/177571

Address:

St John the Evangelist Church

Church Lane

Houghton

CA3 0NW

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: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Granite wheel cross with a sword entwined around the cross, on a three step base. Notes- The following additional casualties have war graves- G. Ord (15 May 1921) and Peter Swinney Anderson 14 November 1920; The following additional casualties have private graves-Tom Simpson 28 August 1917, Christopher Birkett 19 November 1922 and George Graham (RAF) 27 July 1922. It is beside the main gate entrance to the west door of Church. James B[lackwood] Hay is also commemorated on the Carlisle Grammar School Memorials.
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IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/[names]

Column 1- LIEUT HERBERT J LITT/2ND LIEUT JAMES B HAY/2ND LIEUT HENRY W LITTLE/2ND LIEUT JOHN S WILLS/A/SGT WILLIAM GRAHAM/CPL ROBERT KIRK/LCPL WILLIAM JOHNSTON/LCPL RICHARD MITCHINSON/LCPL WILLIAM THOMPSON/PTE CHARLES ALFORD/PTE FRANK BIRRELL/PTE CHRISTOPHER BAINBRIDGE/PTE THOMAS BROWN/PTE JOSEPH BIRKETT/PTE JOSEPH BIRKETT/PTE ROBERT BIRKETT; Column 2- PTE JAMES CURRAN/PTE W B HOODLESS/GNR T J HOODLESS/PTE PARKER HAUGHAN/PTE WILFRID LEE/PTE JOSEPH MONKHOUSE/PTE WILLIAM ROUTLEDGE/PTE RICHARD RAYSON/PTE WILLIAM P ROBSON/PTE FRED SCOTT/PTE JOHN STEPHENSON/PTE ARTHUR STEEL/PTE GEORGE WARD/PTE JOSEPH WARD/PTE JOHN WARD/PTE GEORGE E WALKER

Grade II (England)

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