Great Bircham Cross of Sacrifice

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Reference WMO/268237

Address:

Great Bircham church

Stanhoe Road

Great Bircham

King's Lynn

PE31 6GP

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
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: CWGC cross - this is not technically a war memorial but a marker in a CWGC site to indicate a number of casualties. During the 1939-1945 war the churchyard was used for the burial of airmen from the Royal Air Force Station at Bircham Newton, service dead whose bodies were washed up by the sea and German airmen brought down in the Battle of Britain. A special plot in the South-Eastern corner was set aside soon after the outbreak of war, primarily for men from the R.A.F. station, but all save one of the war graves are in this war Graves Plot. The single 1914-1918 war grave is located elsewhere in the churchyard. The cross of Sacrifice, the first to be erected after the 1939-1945 war, was unveiled by His Majesty King George VI on 14th July 1946. It stands near the east wall, and let into the wall behind it is an inscribed bronze plaque recording these facts. There is now one, 1914-1918 war casualty 77, 1939-1945 war casualties commemorated in this site. One of these is unidentified.
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