Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Wyre Forest
- Town
- Rock
- County
- Hereford And Worcester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 37875
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Current location
Roadside
east of entrance to Caravan Park.
War Memorial
A456 at Callow Hill
Rock
Wyre Forest
Hereford And Worcester
DY14 9XW
England
OS Grid Ref: SO 74067 73900
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Memorial Cross of White Portland Stone. Three-stepped base.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE PARISH OF ROCK WHO, AT THE CALL OF DUTY, LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDSHIPS, FACED DANGERS AND FINALLY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bedwell, Herbert
Bird, Frank
Blount, Charles
Blount, Edwin
Booton, Walter
Brazier, Wilfred Victor
Curtis, George
Davis, William Henry
Doolittle, Edward
Green, Henry
See details for all 35 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 31
Served and returned: 0
Died: 31
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height c. 17½ FT
Materials: Stone - White Portland
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- WELLINGTON JOURNAL & SHREWSBURY NEWS by N/A Source: Media Library Published:N/A WELLINGTON, SHROPSHIRE
- ROC4 Rock - wyreforestww1warmemorials.wordpress.com/memorial-data-and-facts/data-l-ston/roc4/ - accessed 28 February 2022
- Birmingham Daily Gazette - Tuesday 18 May 1920 To take the form of a cross 17½ feet high of white Portland Stone, costing £200.
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