Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Lewes
- Town
- Ditchling
- County
- East Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Eric Gill ARA (Designer)
MESSRS JOSEPH CRIBB (Letter cutter / Engraver) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21st August 1920
Attended by: Colonel Frederick Attree (whose son had been killed at Ypres), Relatives/friends of the Fallen - Rededicated
Date: September 1948
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Dedicated
Date: 21st August 1920
Attended by: Rev. Treasurer J. J. Mallaby of Keymer. Treasurer of Chichester Cathedral - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 17112
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Current location
Junction with B2116
Roadside
Lodge Hill Lane
Ditchling
Lewes
East Sussex
BN6 8TS
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 32437 15249
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Square base surmounted by square plinth and plain unworked stone pillar. Carved inscription on two sides of the pillar.
- Inscription
- 6 O'CLOCK FACE: REMEMBER/ (NAMES)/ 1914 - 1918 3 O'CLOCK FACE: REMEMBER/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945 BASE: GREATER LOVE HATH NO / MAN THAN THIS THAT A / MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Attree, Francis
Blake, Charles A
Brown, George
Burt, Thomas
Carson, Thomas
Cherriman, Edward
Cottingham, James
Elsworth, Sidney
Emden, Henry
Evans, Ronald
See details for all 33 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname
Order of information: surname,forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: no
Information shown: forename, surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Pillar
Measurements: height 110mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Pillar
- Listing information
- Ditchling War Memorial
- Grade II*
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Ditchling
- WMO ID: 106817
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 11-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 1948: SOME REPAIRS MADE TO THE BASE AS IT WAS CRACKED. WW2 NAMES ADDED BY JOSEPH CRIBB IN SEPTEMBER
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Ditchling History Project www.ditchlinghistoryproject.org/ditchling-war-memorial-20.html
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Geograph - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2701495 - accessed 1 May 2020
- Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 24 August 1920 DITCHING'S HEROES MEMORIAL PILLAR UNVEILED AND DEDICATED
- Roll-of-Honour - Sussex - Ditchling War Memorial www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/Ditchling.html
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