CWGC: Thornaby Cemetery Cross

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Reference WMO/218693

Address:

Acklam Road

Thornaby

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: CWGC style Cross of Sacrifice
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: This is not a war memorial but a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery feature see the Links and/or Protection tabs. It is under the care of the CWGC whose graves and memorials are offical commemorative sites as opposed to local or community war memorials created by public subscription which are the focus of this website. See the What is a war memorial section of this website for further information. The cemetery contains war graves of both World Wars, the First World War burials being scattered throughout the cemetery.During the Second World War there was a Royal Air Force Station at Thornaby-on-Tees and most of the servicemen buried in the war graves plot, in Plot O on the southern boundary of the cemetery, were airmen. The small number of graves not in the plot are scattered elsewhere. The Cross of Sacrifice, erected as a central memorial to the dead of both world wars, stands at the opposite side of the cemetery to the plot, at the intersection of the two main paths leading from the two entrances. Thornaby-on-Tees Cemetery contains 30 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 86 from the Second. The war graves plot also contains 30 German war graves. (c CWGC)
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1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 This cross bears witness to the sacrifice of the men and women of the services who gave their lives in two wars and lie buried in this cemetery

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