Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Mid Suffolk
- Town
- Hessett
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 3 October 1920
Attended by: BRIG-GEN A. L. SCHREIBER CB, CMG, DSO - Rededicated
Date: 8 November 2015
Attended by: Undefined - Undefined
Date: 3 October 1920
Attended by: Re. E. M. Bartlett (Rector of Hessett) - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4775
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Current location
St Ethelbert's Church
The Street
Hessett
Mid Suffolk
Suffolk
IP30 9AX
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 93660 61842
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Celtic Cross with stone wreath decoration enclosing the letters IHS, on rectangular base, with incised, painted lettering on the west face.
- Inscription
- Shaft: R I P/ 1914/ (Name) / 1915 (2 Names) / 1916 (2 Names) / 1917 (2 Names) / 1918 (7 Names) Plinth: IN PROUD AND AFFECTIONATE/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN/ OF HESSETT/ WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Benningfield, Alfred
Borley, William J
Bullett, Bertie
Bullett, Ernest G
Bullett, Harry
Catchpole, Ernest
Cocksedge, Bertram
Gladwell, Stanley
Green, Herbert
Green, Walter
See details for all 14 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 14
Served and returned: 0
Died: 14
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year died, forename, initial, surname
Order of information: year died, forename, initial, surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: depth 750 mm, height 3300 mm, width 900 mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- First World War memorial
- Listing information
- Hessett 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
- Hessett War Memorial
- WMO ID: 254069
- Condition: Good [last updated on 15-01-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- PCC
- Reference
- "Hessett War Memorial." Historic England, historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1464647. Accessed 3 August 2024.
- Booklet "Lest We Forget, The 14 men from Hessett who died 1914-18" Published November 2015
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