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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Windsor And Maidenhead
- Town
- Cookham
- County
- Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 21st September 1919
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 7925
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Current location
Junction of High Street and School Lane
Cookham
Windsor And Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 9SG
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 89475 85327
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Single stepped base with rough hewn buttresses at the corner, Celtic Cross with a tapered shaft on a plinth.
- Inscription
- 1939-1945/ (NAMES)/ 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)/ (NAMES)/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ayres, Charles
Barker, Bertram
Bayley, Richard Albert
Belk, Eric Herbert
Coleshill, Frederick Henry
Comley, William John
Cox, Percy Leopold
Dennis, George Hume
Earle, Walter
Ellis, Ralph James Fletcher
See details for all 62 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 62
Served and returned: 0
Died: 62
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,decorations
Order of information: surname,decorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: depth 2750 mm, height 3500 mm, width 2750 mm
Materials: Granite - Cornish
- 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
- COOKHAM
- WMO ID: 115393
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 03-10-2018]
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- Costs
Memorial: £500
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Cookham Memorial Trustees
- Reference
- SL6 6.1
- Unveiling Programme/ Order of Service 21 Sept 1919
- Maidenhead Advertiser 24 Sept 1919; 8 Sept 1920; 19 Jun 1946
- Other website www.wikipaintings.org/en/stanley-spencer/unveiling-cookham-war-memorial
- Other website londonist.com/2013/06/the-dulwich-picture-gallery-has-a-crisis-of-brilliance.php/unveiling-a-war-memorial-at-cookham-1921-spencer-stanley-1891-1959-private-collection-the-bridgeman-art-library-001
- Carter Postcard Collection
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