Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Ryedale
- Town
- Gillamoor
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18142
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Current location
Village Green
Gillamoor
Ryedale
North Yorkshire
YO62 7HU
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 68391 90118
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Plain Latin Cross with rectangular shaft, square plinth and three-stepped base.
- Inscription
- (FRONT) TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN HONOURED MEMORY/ OF/ FREDERICK W WARD/ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ KILLED AT YPRES 2ND MARCH 1916 (SIDES AND REAR) THESE SERVED/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ ON HOME SERVICE (NAMES)/ ABROAD/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ainsley, J J
Barker, J W
Green, C
Kendrew, T H
Leng, J
Smith, G
Smith, H
Spenceley, H
Thompson, F
Todd, G
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 15
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: initials, surnames, Home Service / Abroad, decorations
Order of information: Home Service / Abroad, surname, initials
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 8FT
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Plinth
Measurements: depth 2FT, height 2FT 3", width 2FT
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Cross
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Gillamoor
- WMO ID: 226041
- Condition: Good [last updated on 11-12-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Damaged in a car accident in 2012, subsequently repaired
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Gillamoor rallies round to rebuild war memorial destroyed by car www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/9898550.gillamoor-rallies-round-to-rebuild-war-memorial-destroyed-by-car/ Repaired by Sam Baxter of Harrogate using photographs take by a local school in a school project
- Carter Postcard Collection
- War Memorials Trust Bulletin 69, May 2016, page 11
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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