Soham Grammar School WW2 gates

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Reference WMO/256008

Address:

Soham Village School

Sand Street

Soham

CB7 5AA

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other
Materials:
  • Metal Iron
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: These wrought iron War Memorial Gates were erected in December 1951 at the entrance to Soham Grammar School's playing field in memory of those died on active service 1939-45. They were dedicated on 18th July 1952. They now stand half way up the old drive from Sand Street. Until 1971 on the Friday before Remembrance Sunday there was a ceremony of gratitude culminating in the planting of a field of poppies.
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Attached to the gates is a small metal plate on which is painted THESE // MEMORIAL GATES // WERE ERECTED // IN MEMORY OF // THE OLD BOYS OF // SOHAM // GRAMMAR SCHOOL // WHO FELL IN THE // SECOND WORLD WAR // 1939-1945

The names are recorded in a special commemorative book inside what is now the Village College.

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