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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Chiltern
- Town
- Coleshill
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8118
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Current location
Junction of Village Road and Barracks Hill
Parish Church
Village Road
Coleshill
Chiltern
Buckinghamshire
HP7 0LW
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 94742 95135
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Patee-wheeled cross on three stepped square base.
- Inscription
- THIS CROSS WAS RAISED AND THIS/ CHURCHYARD CONSECRATED/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS VILLAGE WHO DIED/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914- 1919/ YE THAT LIVE ON MID ENGLISH PASTURES GREEN / REMEMBER US AND THINK WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ NAMES
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Birch, Charles Henry
Birch, George Thomas
Bowler, Raymond
Bryant, William
Castle, Percy
Forbes, Kenneth
Glenister, Albert
Harris, Mark
Mead, James
Saunders, William Henry
See details for all 13 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Listing information
- Coleshill War Memorial, Buckinghamshire
- 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
- COLESHILL
- WMO ID: 115201
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 10-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Parish Council
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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