Shipdham War Memorial

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Reference WMO/210732

Address:

All Saints Churchyard

Church Lane

Shipdham

IP25 7LX

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: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Standing in the churchyard to the south of the church, opposite the church door.A rough finished granite wheel cross, with intertwined design on the cross itself. The cross stands upon a three-tiered octagonal base, the front bearing the general commemoration for WW1, flanked on the different tiers with the names of 29 men who fell in WW1. These are arranged in rough alphabetical order, giving first name and surname. Those who fell in WW2 are listed on the reverse, which lists 10 names, although 2 of these died post-war, together with a general commemoration to the men of the 8th USAAF (US Armed Forces). The whole sits upon an octagonal platform, surrounded by gravel, granite posts and a chain fence.
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(Front top tier) 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' (Front middle tier) IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF SHIPDHAM WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 (Reverse top tier) TO THE FALLEN 8TH BOMBER COMMAND U.S.A.A.F. (Reverse middle tier) 1939-1945

(WW1) ALBERT J. ADCOCK, WILLIAM ALCOCK (Adcock?), BERTIE W. ASHBY, HERBERT G. BAKER, HERBERT BALDWIN, RICHARD E. CARR, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, FRED COE, PERCY CROSS, WALTER EVERETT, HENRY GARNER, EDWARD HAMMOND, SIDNEY HOLMAN, WALTER HOLMAN, JOHN LADELL, ARTHUR LAKE, ARTHUR MACRO, LEONARD MIDDLETON, GEORGE NEVILLE, ALBERT PESTELL, REGINALD RICHES, ARTHUR C. RIX, CYRIL ROBINSON, REGINALD HOWE (should read ROWE), HARRY RUDLING, SIDNEY J. SAUNDERS, ARTHUR SCASE, WILLIAM SHEARING, HARRY SMALLS. (WW2) WALTER DAWSON, RONALD GAME, EDWARD HARRIS, LEWIS HENSBY, JOHN PHILLIPS, ANTHONY SPILMAN, FRASNK ROSE, DESMOND WATSON, BERNARD WILKINS, JAMES W ETHERIDGE.

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