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Lieutenant J P M Carpenter (Battlefield Cross)

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Reference WMO/81127

Address:

Salisbury Cathedral

The Close

Salisbury

SP1 2EJ

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Battlefield (wooden) cross
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Wooden battlefield cross fixed to the west wall of the cloister of Salisbury Cathedral. The original inscription seems to have been lost, but a wooden board at the base of the cross gives the inscription below.: The CWGC database records that Lieutenant John Philip Morton Carpenter of the Royal Field Artillery died on the 16 September 1916, aged 23. The database also states that he was not buried in Bullecourt Cemetery, but in Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers (III. L. 14). The 16 September was the second day of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, where tanks had been used for the very first time in battle. Lieut Carpenter was the son of Archdeacon H. W. Carpenter and Mrs. Carpenter, of North Canonry, The Close, Salisbury. His grave marker can be found in the cloisters next to the battlefield cross of his brother-in-law, Capt Charles Basil Morton Hodgson, who died in April 1918 of wounds received in the Palestine campaign.
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This cross marked the place where | Lt J. P. M. Carpenter | Son of the Archdeacon of Sarum was killed | near Flers at the Battle of the Somme and | was afterwards moved to his grave in | Bullecourt Cemetery

J. P. M. Carpenter

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