Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Waveney
- Town
- Sotterley
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 25 April 1920
Attended by: Canon Markham ( Vicar of Grimsby) - Unveiled
Date: 25 April 1920
Attended by: Relatives/Friends of the Fallen - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Outside village cemetery.
Sotterley War Memorial
Junction of Pound Road
Southwell Lane and The Run
Sotterley
Waveney
Suffolk
NR34 7TX
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 45470 84391
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Latin Cross on three-stepped base.
- Inscription
- Plinth side 1: TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF THESE WHOSE NAMES / ARE HEREON INSCRIBED WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / AND 1939-1945 / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE // Plinth sides 2, 3 and 4: (15 NAMES) // Top step, side 1: (2 NAMES [WW2] )
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Barne, Miles
Barne, Seymour
Bird, Henry
Brown, Harry
Brown, Oscar
Bullen, Charlie
Burgess, George
Card, George Henry
Easey, John S
Easy, Bob
See details for all 15 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, regiment, forename
Order of information: Surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 15
Served and returned: 0
Died: 15
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, year of death, regiment, forename, decorations
Order of information: Year of death, surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: depth 98" Base, height 15 ft, width 98" Base
Materials: Stone - Clipsham - Undefined
Measurements: depth 98", width 98"
Materials: Undefined
- Cross
- Listing information
- SOTTERLEY WAR MEMORIAL
- Grade II
- 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
- Sotterley
- WMO ID: 230486
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 11-12-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- WW1 names hard to read
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Parish Council
- Reference
- East Anglian Daily Times 29 April 1920
- Historic England listing: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391196?section=official-list-entry Accessed 24/05/2022
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