Skelsmergh 'Westmorland Cross'

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Reference WMO/272827

Address:

St John the Baptist Church

Helme Lane

Skelsmergh

LA9 6NU

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Other cross
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Metal Copper
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Wooden Cross with individual brass plates for each casualty. At the centre of the cross shaft there is, unusually for these crosses, a brass dedication plaque, and on the wall beside the cross is a repousse copper plaque to the left which carries Binyon's elegiac words, They shall not grow old/ As we that are left grow old/. The cross was originally in the Lych gate (reference WMO 272828) but had been moved inside sometime before 1996. It is now at the west end of the north wall with the copper dedication plaque being adjacent at the north end of the west wall. The lettering on that plaque is in relief. Note that of the 2 WW2 casualties 2 are buried in CWGC graves in the Churchyard- A O Moffet and George Rigg. Note also that there are 19 names for WW1 on this memorial, but 25 on the external tablet in the Lych gate (WMO/272828). Note that Google maps incorrectly shows the Church as Skelsmergh Community Hall. The Hall is across the road (on the north side) from the Church (which is on the south side).
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The central brass bears a dedicatory inscription- Forget us not O land for which we fell/May it go well with England - Still go well/Keep Her bright banners without blot or stain/Lest we should dream that we had died in vain The repousse copper plaque to the left carries Binyon's elegiac words- THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD/AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN/AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING/WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

WW1- Top of the Shaft- Plaque 1- Pte T G Cragg/10th Batt.Hampshire Reg./Salonika Sept 2nd 1918; Plaque 2-Pte Ernest Henshaw/4th Border Regt/Died in India Sept. 1918; Plaque 3-Pte A Tanzour-Shepherd/Ox & Bucks Light Infantry/Salonica April 1917; Left Arm- Left Hand Side- Top Plaque-Pte G Grisdale Atkinson/1st Grenadier Guards/France Oct 12th 1917; Bottom Plaque-Thomas H Towers/Pte 7th Border Regt/April 1917 France; Right Hand Side-2nd Lieut J V Vaulkard/8th Bedfords/France Sept 15th 1916; Right Arm- Left Hand Side-2nd Lieut J G Thompson/Royal Flying Corps/France, May 19th 1917; Right Hand Side- Top Plaque-Thomas Richard Major/Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers/France 22 March 1918; Bottom Plaque-Thomas Blenkhorn/Pte Kings Liverpool Regt/March 1918 France; Shaft, below the Cross piece- Plaque 1-Pte John Blezard/2nd Border Reg/France Oct 26th 1914; Plaque 2-Pte F E Heslop/32nd Divisional Cyclists Co/1st July 1916 France; Plaque 3-Pte Jas Atkinson/1st Borders/France Nov 20th 1916; Plaque 4-Pte J A Thompson/Grenadier Guards/France 1st September 1916; Plaque 5-Pte Thomas Atkinson/Argyl & S'thern [sic] Highlanders/France Dec. 13th 1916; Plaque 6-Pte Jas. Hawes/Cumb & Westd. Yeomanry/Drowned at Sea April 1917; Plaque 7-Gunner James Robinson/R.F.A./France Sept. 18th 1917; Plaque 8-Pte. Thomas Robinson/York & Lancaster Regt/France Oct 2nd 1917; Plaque 9-Pt Malcolm Crossley/Lancs. Fusiliers/France Oct 16th 1917; Plaque 10-L Cpl James Blezard/2nd Border Regt/Oct 26th 1917; WW2 (at the base of the shaft of the cross)- Top Plaque-1939-1945; Plaque 2-Sergt Thomas Bethell/4th Border Regt/May 24th 1940; Plaque 3-LBdr George Rigg/Royal Artillery/April 5th 1944; Plaque 4-Sq Ldr Alan O Moffet/Royal Air Force/July 21st 1945

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