Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- St Edmundsbury
- Town
- Wickhambrook
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27 April 1924
Attended by: Lt-General Sir Charles Briggs KCB, KCMG
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5285
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Current location
Village Cemetery
Cemetery Road
Wickhambrook
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk
CB8 8XR
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 74577 55466
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Near Thorn's Corner
Shop Hill
Wickhambrook
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 744 552
Denomination: Undefined
- Near Thorn's Corner
- Description
- Decorated Latin cross enclosed at the base by St Edmund's Crown, atop a slender column. Mounted on a tapered plinth above a three stepped base, all of Portland stone.
- Inscription
- Plinth 6 o'clock face: IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ WICKHAMBROOK/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR/ LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 (Names) Plinth other faces: BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH (Names)/ AND I WILL GIVE THEE (Names)/ THE NUMBER OF MEN/ FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO SERVED WAS 134/ A CROWN OF LIFE (Names) Steps 6 o' clock face: 1939-1945/ (Names)/ THE MEMORIAL TO THESE MEN IS THE VILLAGE HALL/ NEAR THIS PLACE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alcock, C
Alcock, William
Byford, Joseph
Cecil, H
Chapman, Jack
Cook, C William
Cook, Harry A
Cutts, Ernest W
Eagle, Arthur
Edgeley, Adolphus
See details for all 26 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: depth 965mm, height 4572mm, width 965mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Memorial
- 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
- Wickhambrook WW1 & WW2
- WMO ID: 200933
- Condition: Good [last updated on 22-01-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Cleaned each year before Remembrance Sunday.
- Costs
Comments: The site was given by N Warner Bromley.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- PCC
- Reference
- Bury Free Press, 3 May 1924
- Details of Grade 2 listing by Historic England. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1464940?section=official-listing Accesses 09/12/2021
- Wickhambrook Remembers: www.undyingmemory.net/Wickhambrook/wickhambrook-memorial.html
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