Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fittings
- District
- Mid Suffolk
- Town
- Great Ashfield
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 18 December 1945
Attended by: Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4673
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Current location
All Saints Church
Elmswell Rd
Great Ashfield
Mid Suffolk
Suffolk
IP31 3HQ
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 99556 67784
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Oak altar and reredos. Reredos has a canopied panel at each end with an inscription on the right hand panel.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORIAM/ DEDICATED/ TO THE/ EVERLASTING MEMORY/ OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN/ OF THE/ 385TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP/ 8TH AIR FORCE/ US ARMY/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN HEROIC SACRIFICE/ AND/ UNSELFISH DEVOTION/ TO DUTY/ WORLD WAR II/ MCMXLV
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Altar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak - Reredos
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Altar
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Great Ashfield PCC
- Reference
- Bury Free Press, 21 December 1945 - Account of dedication
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