Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Gedling
- Town
- Woodborough
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 31st March 1921
Attended by: COL F E SEELY
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 27042
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Current location
ST SWITHUNS CHURCH
Main St
Woodborough
Gedling
Nottinghamshire
NG14 6DX
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 63158 47715
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- TALL CELTIC STYLE CROSS ON FOUR SIDED TRUNCATED PYRAMIDAL PLINTH
- Inscription
- (FRONT) IN MEMORY OF/ THE WOODBOROUGH MEN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18/ (NAMES)/ (REAR)/ AND THOSE WHO FELL/ IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Desborough, Harry
Desborough, John Thomas
Foster, Fred Severn
Orange, Ernest
Orange, Harold
Poole, John William
Richardson, Sidney
Ridgard, William Henry
Savidge, Richard Claud
Shipstone, Percy
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Cornish
- 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
- WOODBOROUGH
- WMO ID: 97155
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 17-05-2020]
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- Costs
Site: £140
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- CHURCH COUNCIL
- Reference
- 230L
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