Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Huntingdon
- Town
- Holywell- Cum- Needingworth
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: December 1920
Attended by: Mrs E Bedford
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 277
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Current location
Junction of Overcote Lane and High Street
Holywell- Cum- Needingworth
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE27 4TU
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 34254 72083
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Portland stone obelisk mounted on plinth with five-stepped base. Gable in relief above inscription on faces of plinth.
- Inscription
- IN/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ ALSO IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Attwood, Harry
Dodson, Harold J
Easton, Fred
Fraser, Alistair H
Freeman, William
Gaunt, Cyril P
Gaunt, Harold E P
Mansfield, Joseph
Metcalfe, Fred
Mills, Kenneth S.
See details for all 17 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname,rank,forename
Order of information: Surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Obelisk
- 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
- Holywell-cum-Needingworth
- WMO ID: 244390
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 03-05-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2012: Plans to clean the memorial under discussion.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- www.roll-of-honour.com/Huntingdonshire confirms which war the dead served in .
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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