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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Peterborough
- Town
- Thornhaugh
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 30th May 1920
Attended by: Bishop of Peterborough
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18854
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Current location
Adjacent to Churchyard entrance from roadside,
St. Andrew's Churchyard
Russell Hill
Thornhaugh
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE8 6HL
England
OS Grid Ref: TF 06977 00562
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Two-stepped, platform-topped hexagonal base surmounted by a square sectioned plinth followed by a substantial hexagonal shafted base with a tapering shaft, boss and floriate armed wheel cross. Incised inscription.
- Inscription
- East face : TO THE GLORY OF GOD / WHO SAVED OUR COUNTRY / IN HER TIME OF PERIL / 1914 - 1918. West face : IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 /
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: depth 1800 mm, height 3600 mm, width 1800 mm
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Listing information
- Thornhaugh and Wansford 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
- Thornhaugh with Wansford
- WMO ID: 194100
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 08-04-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Lettering worn.
- Costs
Memorial: £77.6s 0d. (£77.30)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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