Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Town
- Thame
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918), Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 30th July 1921
Attended by: RT HON DAVID LLOYD GEORGE MP
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31715
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Current location
Just past the junction of the A4129 and B4445
Upper High Street
Thame
South Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
OX9 3EZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 70908 05670
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Stone wheel Cross surmounting octagonal pedestal. Pedestal surmounts two-stepped plinth. Plinth stands on four stepped stone base. Dedicatory bronze plaques on pedestal and plinths.
- Inscription
- FRONT FACE: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN EVER GRATEFUL AND PROUD MEMORY OF THE/ MEN FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ "THEIR NAME FOR EVERMORE"/ (NAMES)/ 1939-1945/ (NAMES) SIDE ONE: FALKLAND ISLANDS/ JUTLAND/ GALLIPOLI/ DARDANELLES/ PALESTINE/ ZEEBRUGGE/ EGYPT/ MEOPOTAMIA SIDE TWO: SOMME/ MONS/ ARRAS/ MARNE/ ITALY/ YPRES/ EAST AFRICA/ INDIAN FRONTIER REAR FACE: THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY/ THE RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE/ PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND/ 30 JULY 1921
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allen, C A
Allen, Rj
Allen, S
Allen, S
Arnold, E
Arnott, H
Bateman, C B
Bates, T
Baverstock, W T
Beard, Aa
See details for all 116 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 94
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 94
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Plaques
- Listing information
- 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
- THAME PARISH
- WMO ID: 92603
- Condition: Good [last updated on 24-04-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2006: Memorial has been cleaned and repaired. Finance has been agreed to improve the surrounding area during 2006. 2004: Applied for a grant from The Wolfson Foundation. 2024 30 Names were discovered to be missing from the memorial. New plaques were added and the memorial cleaned.
- Costs
Memorial: £1200 in 1921
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Information pack in file created by Derek Brown, includes photographs of the site before and after the memorial was built; the opening ceremony; and the plaque inscriptions.
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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