Laindon War Memorial

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Reference WMO/193035

Address:

Outside Laindon Shopping Centre

High Road

Laindon

SS15 5TF

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A circular, capped, blue pear Aberdeen granite column with a cross at its top and inscription at its base. Set on circular base in brick blocked area. Unveiled in original position further along the High Road outside the old British Legion Club on 21st September 1935 presented by Mr. Albert Symes and unveiled by his daughter Mrs Ivy McLachlan and Rev. Michael Lake and Rev. Tom Shepherd. It was moved to its present site around 1975, and there are plans for it to be moved again if and when the shopping centre is redeveloped.
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To the glorious dead 1914-1918. Laindon and District. 1939 - 1945 At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

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