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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Battlefield cross or marker
- District
- Croydon
- Town
- Addiscombe
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 16 May 1920
Attended by: BRIGADIER GENERAL W F MILDEN CB CMG DSO
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 10796
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Current location
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- Formerly on the north wall of church
close to shrine
St James Church
Lower Addiscombe Road
Addiscombe
Croydon
Greater London
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Church of England
- Formerly on the north wall of church
- Description
- A small plain wooden grave-marker cross with associated tablets.
- Inscription
- [Unknown]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: Undefined
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Battlefield Cross or Marker
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Tablet
- Condition
- History
- Church closed, with last service taking place Jan 1980. Reports of vandalism over subsequent years. Cross/tablets either stolen or destroyed.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- At the going down of the sun... An account of Croydon’s war memorials. Author Ronald COX. Published 1992. Reference C2
- Newspaper - Sunday Mirror and County Post, Friday, May 21, 1920 page 6
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