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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Wimborne
- Town
- Horton
- County
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 26640
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Current location
St Wolfrida's Church
off Horton Road
Horton
Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 7JA
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 03014 07448
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- PLAIN STONE CROSS ON FIVE STEPPED PLINTH
- Inscription
- THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS OF HORTON TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bennett, Cecil
Budden, Joseph
Churchill, Reginald
Dowland, Sidney
Hardiman, Albert
House, William George
Taylor, Arthur
Wareham, Ernest G
Wareham, Henry
Wilcox, Walter Thomas
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename
Order of information: year died - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename,manner of death
Order of information: year died
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 10FT
Materials: Stone
- 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
- Horton
- WMO ID: 97546
- Condition: Very bad [last updated on 28-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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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