Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Croydon
- Town
- Purley
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 February 1954
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 752
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Current location
863
Christ Church
Brighton Road
Purley
Croydon
Greater London
CR8 2BN
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 31718 61981
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wooden Board with Plain gilt cross above inscription in relief.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / WHILE SERVING IN H.M.FORCES IN / THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 / [NAMES] / AND OF THOSE CIVILIANS WHO DIED / BY ENEMY ACTION IN THIS PARISH / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alderton, Archibald
Batch, R F
Bott, Peter
Champness, John Alec
Danby, George
Frewing, Alec Robert
Henderson, Lawrence
Knott, Colin
Lomer, Herbert
Major, George Bourne
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: depth 60MM, height 930MM, width 710MM
Materials: Wood - Detail
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Gilt
- Board
- 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
- CHrist Church WW2
- WMO ID: 261328
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 21-12-2018]
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- Costs
Site: £70
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- PCC & Churchwardens of the Parish
- Reference
- At the Going Down of the Sun... An Account of Croydon's War Memorials. Author Ronald COX. Published 1992. ---- Reference C34
- Purley in the Great War - sites.google.com/site/purleyandthegreatwar/local-memorials - Accessed 28 October 2020
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