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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Aylesbury Vale
- Town
- Ashendon
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date:
Attended by: Major Aubrey-Fletcher DSO MVO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8036
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Current location
In the churchyard near stone wall
St Mary's Church
Junction of Lower End and Main Street
Ashendon
Aylesbury Vale
Buckinghamshire
HP18 0HB
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 70500 14180
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Square-Celtic cross made of rough hewn granite, surmounting a square tapering plinth. Inscription laid flat in black lettering on smooth faces of the plinth.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face: 1914 - 1918/ IN/ AFFECTIONATE/ AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF PARISHIONERS/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ ALBERT LAY, OBLI/ DEC 12 1915, AGED 20/ WALTER EWERS, OBLI/ AUG 28 1916, AGED 21/ ALSO IN HONOUR OF/ ALL THOSE WHO DID THEIR DUTY/ FROM THIS PARISH/ 9 o'clock face: 1939 - 1945/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ GERALD EWERS R BERKS/ GEORGE H JOHNSON RA/ ALBERT J LONG OBLI/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ewers, Gerald
Ewers, Walter
Johnson, George H
Lay, Albert
Long, Albert
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, regiment
Order of information: Alphabetically - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, rank, year of death, regiment, age of death
Order of information: Year of death
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 2000 mm
Materials: Granite - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Cross
- 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
- ASHENDON
- WMO ID: 115283
- Condition: Good [last updated on 28-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Parish Council
- Reference
- Bucks Herald, 3 November 1923
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