Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Sedgemoor
- Town
- East Brent
- County
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Korean War (1950-1953), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 27th May 1921
Attended by:
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24737
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Current location
On the junction of Weston Road and Old Bristol Road
Weston Road
East Brent
Sedgemoor
Somerset
TA9 4HT
England
OS Grid Ref: ST 34932 51822
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Large stone cross set on tapering octagonal stone column. Column stands on two-tiered stone plinth, top plinth is narrower than lower plinth. Four figures stand on lower plinth, level with upper plinth. Lower plinth bears inscription. Whole stands on two-stepped stone base. Four figures around plinth are of an airman, a sailor, a merchant seaman and a soldier.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PRAISE AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY /OF THE FOLLOWING SOLDIERS/ FROM OR CONNECTED WITH/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ "YE THAT LIVE ON MID/ ENGLISH PASTURES GREEN/ REMEMBER US AND THINK/ WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN" / (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ KOREA/ (Name)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Camlen, William Henry
Comer, George Imman
Crees, Bertram F
Derrick, John Leslie
Dinwiddy, Harry
Durston, John
Emery, Edward
Fisher, Ernest
Grant, Alfred
Ham, Frederick C
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 17
Served and returned: 0
Died: 17
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename.
Order of information: Surname. - Korean War (1950-1953)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename.
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height c.7000 mm, width 1300 mm
Materials: Stone - Figures
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Listing information
- WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGEWATER ROAD
- 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
- East Brent War Memorial
- WMO ID: 140662
- Condition: Good [last updated on 10-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Restored in 1982.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
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