Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- St Edmundsbury
- Town
- Great Livermere
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24 April 1920
Attended by: J.A.H Wood
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
At the Junction of Church Road and The Street
Roadside
The Street
Great Livermere
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk
IP31 1JS
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 88698 71242
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Latin cross on tall stone base, crossed swords in relief on face 4 and crossed rifles in relief on face 2. Dedication and names incised and picked out in black.
- Inscription
- Cross pedestal faces 2, 1 and 3: THANKS BE TO/ GOD WHO GIVETH/ US THE VICTORY/ Cross pedestal face 4: WAR DECLARED 4TH AUG 1914/ ARMISTICE SIGNED 11 NOV 1918/ Top of column faces 1, 2, 3 and 4: THINE IS THE KINGDOM/ THE POWER AND THE GLORY/ FOR EVER AND EVER/ BLESSED ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE/ THE LORD FOR THEIR GOD. Face 1: IN/ LOVING AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ (Names)/ WHO DIED/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ Face 2: Crossed rifles Face 3: THIS/ MONUMENT/ WAS ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND AS/ A MEMORIAL TO THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 TO 1919./ ALSO TO KEEP IN MEMORY/ THE MEN OF LIVERMERE/ WHO FELL IN THAT WAR,/ AND TO/ GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE/ PATRIOTISM OF THE/ OTHER FIFTY-ONE LOCAL MEN/ WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN/ ITS TIME OF PERIL. Face 4: GR and Crossed swords
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Elliston, Harry
Hilder, Harry
Moss, William
Newman, George
Page, Charles
Reeve, D'arcy Edmund Wentworth
Runnacles, Harry
Seeley, Percy
Stannard, Reginald
Studd, Gaston
See details for all 12 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, regiment, rank decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Sicilian - Base
Measurements: depth 2550mm bas, width 2550mm bas
Materials: Stone - Portland - Memorial
Measurements: height 4800mm
Materials: Unknown
- Cross
- Listing information
- Great Livermere 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
- Great Livermere WW1 Memorial
- WMO ID: 117463
- Condition: Good [last updated on 12-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Parish Council
- Reference
- Account of unveiling, Bury and Norwich Post, 30 April 1920
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