Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Vale Of White Horse
- Town
- Cumnor
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1921
Attended by: Major Worsley,'Stroud Court, Three buglers of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry sounded the 'Last Post' and 'Reveille'
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31331
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Current location
Church adjacent to High Street / Abingdon Road junction,
St. Michael's Church
High Street
Cumnor
Vale Of White Horse
Oxfordshire
OX2 9PE
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 46155 04136
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wall mounted, landscape orientated slate tablet with a moulded border enclosing incised inscription and names. To either side of the inscription area is a laurel wreath in relief. Within the left hand wreath is the heraldic shield of St. George and in the right hand wreath is a shield containing a decorative terminal-armed cross. Both designs are red on white ground.
- Inscription
- + IN UNDYING MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF THIS PLACE WHO LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT / WAR THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE / (1 NAME) / (24 NAMES in 3 colomns) / 1914 Their name liveth for evermore 1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ayres, E W
Barson, A
Barson, P
Bateman, F W
Bennett, M
Brogden, A. J.
Brogden, C
Brogden, G
Brogden, W G
Bullock, S
See details for all 25 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: 0
Died: 25
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename initials, surname, decorations
Order of information: Rank, surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 2 ft, width 3 ft
Materials: Slate
- Tablet
- Listing information
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
- Grade I
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Weblink to Berkshire War Memorials, Cumnor page. www.berkswm.org/BWM6017.html
- weblink to DEDICATION OF CUMNOR WAR MEMORIAL users.ox.ac.uk/~djp/cumnor/articles/war-memorial-1921.htm
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