Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Forest Heath
- Town
- Lakenheath
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Aden Emergency (1963-1967), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 31st March 1921
Attended by: Captain Owen a. Clark, MBE of Bury St Edmunds - Dedicated
Date: 31st March 1921
Attended by: Captain Owen a. Clark, MBE of Bury St Edmunds - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4559
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Current location
Verge of Mill road junction with High Street
Mill Road
Lakenheath
Forest Heath
Suffolk
IP27 9DT
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 71527 82625
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Square.
- Inscription
- 6 O' clock: THIS MONUMENT / HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF / LAKENHEATH, / IN HONOUR OF / 65 GALLANT MEN OF THIS PARISH, / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919; / AS A LASTING RECORD OF THEIR SACRIFICE, / AND IN GRATITUDE TO GOD / FOR THE VICTORY ACHIEVED. / "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/ ALSO IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ " AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM" Other faces: (Names) /1964 ADEN / (Name)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allsop, Robert
Allsop, William H
Ashman, Donald
Bailey, Alec
Bailey, Arthur
Barber, Bertram
Benton, Robert
Bilsland, James
Brooks, Claud
Brooks, George R
See details for all 76 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 64
Served and returned: 0
Died: 64
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, middle initial, surname, regiment
Order of information: Undefined - Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, middle initial, surname, regiment
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, middle initial, surname, regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: depth 1905mm, height 6096mm, width 1905mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Obelisk
- Listing information
- Lakenheath 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
- Lakenheath
- WMO ID: 118137
- Condition: Good [last updated on 28-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Lettering has been badly cleaned.
- Costs
Site: £245-35D
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- War Memorials Trust WM2366 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=464
- Historic England listing; historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1456856?section=official-list-entry Accessed 19/05/2022
- Account of unveiling- Bury Free Press, 2 April 1921
- Carter Postcard Collection
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