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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Hinckley And Bosworth
- Town
- Stoke Golding
- County
- Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 25th September 1921
Attended by: PRIVATE JOSEPH SKELTON
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 37833
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Current location
Centrepoint of cemetery,
Hinckley Road Cemetery
Hinckley Road
Stoke Golding
Hinckley And Bosworth
Leicestershire
CV13 6DU
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 39998 97040
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Bull Ring
Stoke Golding
Hinckley And Bosworth
Leicestershire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Bull Ring
- Description
- Four-stepped octagonal base surmounted by a circular moulded boss & octagonal sectioned tapering shaft, with a decorative capital & wheel cross. Leaded inscriptions & names on riser faces around upper two steps. Between these steps is a chamfer-headed octagonal spacer. Lower two steps have chamfered edges. The whole memorial is bordered by a wide circular hard standing area.
- Inscription
- 4th. step : ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS OF STOKE GOLDING / IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / continuing onto 3rd.step : GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, / LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT / THAT THEIR NAME BE NOT FORGOTTEN. 4th. step, opp. side : (21 NAMES) 3rd. step, opp. side : SECOND GREAT WAR /1939 - 1945 / LEST WE FORGET. 2 adjacent 3rd. step faces, opp. side : (12 NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adcock, H
Adcock, P
Adcock, W S
Bloxham, C W
Bloxham, J W
Grewcock, A
Harris, S
Hill, S
Hunter, A J
Jordan, H E
See details for all 21 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 4045 mm
Materials: Granite
- Cross
- Listing information
- Stoke Golding 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
- Stoke Golding
- WMO ID: 157640
- Condition: Good [last updated on 05-08-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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