Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Elmbridge
- Town
- Thames Ditton
- County
- Surrey
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 23440
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Current location
Giggs Hill Green
Giggs Hill Road
Thames Ditton
Elmbridge
Surrey
KT7 0EG
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 16279 66617
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- STONE CROSS WITH OCTAGONAL SHAFT SURMOUNTS OCTAGONAL STONE PLINTH. PLINTH BEARS NAMES AND INSCRIPTION IN INCISED LETTERING PAINTED BLACK. WHOLE STANDS ON THREE-STEPPED BASE OF ROUGH-HEWN STONE. METAL RELIEF OF SWORD ON SHAFT OF CROSS. LAUREL WREATH SURROUNDS HANDLE OF SWORD.
- Inscription
- IN THANKFULNESS/ TO GOD/ AND TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN & WOMEN OF THE PARISH OF/ THAMES DITTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR/ KING AND EMPIRE/ IN THE GREAT WARS OF 1914 . 1918 - 1939 . 1945/ "DEATH IS SWALLOWED/ UP IN VICTORY"/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ames, W
Attwell, W H
Babbage, H
Balshaw, C A
Battersby, C F P
Bew, R
Blachford, L C
Boxall, W H
Buckingham, E C
Bunton, E
See details for all 89 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 88
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 88
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Listing information
- Thames Ditton 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
- Thames Ditton
- WMO ID: 168961
- Condition: Good [last updated on 24-05-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Percy Simmonds Photograph Collection
- Carter Postcard Collection
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