Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Boston
- Town
- Wrangle
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 October 1920
Attended by: Maj. Oliver Cooper TD - Dedicated
Date: 17 October 1920
Attended by: Revd Herbert Arthur Barker MA, parishioners - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 59812
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Current location
Church Lane And Church End
Wrangle
Boston
Lincolnshire
PE22 9EW
England
OS Grid Ref: TF 42452 50894
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Crucifix with a covering set on a long shaft and eight-sided stepped plinth. The whole is set on a circular base with gravel infill.
- Inscription
- Top stone front face: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL / AND UNDYING LOVING MEMORY/ OF THE 27 MEN FROM/ WRANGLE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ AND IN HONOUR OF ALL/ THOSE WHO SERVED THEIR/ KING AND COUNTRY Top stone right face: (Names)/ REST ETERNAL GRANT TO/ THEM O LORD. Middle stone right face: THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD Top stone rear face: (Names)/ LET LIGHT PERPETUAL/ SHINE UPON THEM Middle stone rear face: AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM/ NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN Top stone left face:(Names)/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE Middle stone left face: AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Barber, Benjamin
Burr, Elijah
Clarke, George
Clarke, Jonas
Cole, Joseph
Coupland, George
Dawson, William
Dobson, Leslie Alfred
Futter, William
Hammond, Basil
See details for all 31 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 27
Served and returned: 0
Died: 27
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, decorations
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Crucifix
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Weldon
- Crucifix
- Listing information
- Wrangle 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
- St Mary & St Nicholas - Wrangle
- WMO ID: 244658
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 29-08-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2008: Lettering heavily eroded.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Boston Guardian 23 October 1920
- The First World War Memorials of Lincolnshire - Michael Credland
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