Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Holderness
- Town
- Sigglesthorne
- County
- Humberside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 4 September 1920
Attended by: Vice Adm Sir William Pakenham KCB KCMG
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 35283
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Current location
St. Lawrence Church
Rise Road
Sigglesthorne
Holderness
Humberside
England
OS Grid Ref: TA 15454 45669
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A simple Celtic-style wheel cross on a rough-hewn base, mounted on a two-step base. There is an inverted sword of sacrifice in high relief on the front face of the cross.
- Inscription
- IN SACRED MEMORY OF/ THE FOLLOWING MEN FROM THE/ ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF/ SIGGLESTHORNE/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Fenwick, Harry
Ford, John H
Foster, J Stephen
Green, John W
Londesborough, James
Londesborough, Tom
Mathison, William H
Postill, R William
Strickland-constable, Frederick C
Turner, George R
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,forename
Order of information: rank
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- 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
- Sigglesthorne War Memorial
- WMO ID: 226378
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 03-05-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- 'Sigglesthorne's Great Day', Hull Times, 11 September 1920
- Yorkshire Heroes, Vol. I: A Journey from Hull to Withernsea Around Hornsea and Back to Hull Again, Malcolm Mann (1995), pp. 313-315.
- 'Sigglesthorne', The 'Snapper', c. 1920, p. 148.
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