Brackenfield

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Reference WMO/215264

Address:

Holy Trinity Church

Butterfield Lane

Brackenfield

DE55 6AN

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: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A limestone ashlar monument comprising a freestanding pillar with near vertical faces, battered sides and arched top, mounted on a two-stage plinth and a shaped rectangular base. The 6 o'clock face of the pillar has a beaded-edge, recessed panel containing a variety of emblems in relief. At the head is a crown superimposed on a Latin cross upon a two-stepped base. On the side of the base, also in relief, is a fleur-de-lys above wavy lines, representing France over the water where the fallen lay. Below, the inscription and names are incised, in a variety of lettering styles, within an oblong panel. The other three faces of the tablet are plain. The top plinth has a a moulded top, an unbound wreath in relief on the 6 o'clock face and an inscription incised in upright capital Roman lettering on the 12 o'clock face. The lower plinth has a moulded top and a bowed front, but is otherwise plain. The base has a moulded top and its plan outline reflects the bowed front.
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6 o'clock face : SONS of BRACKENFIELD / Who fell / in THE GREAT WAR / (4 names) ; 12 o'clock face : THEIR REWARD IS ALSO / WITH THE LORD / AND THE CARE OF THEM / IS WITH THE MOST HIGH

Lieutenant Gladwyn M R Turbutt, Oxf. & Buck.s L.I. St Julien, 1914, Pte Joseph Rimmington, Gren. Guards-Loos, 1915/ Pte Henry Cowlishaw, Sherw'd Foresters Ypres 1917/ Lce Cpl. George Haslam, Sherw'd Foresters St Julien, 1917

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