Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Aylesbury Vale
- Town
- Granborough
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Mr. F. E. Howard (Architect)
Messrs W. Wise & Son (Mason) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24 July 1921
Attended by: Mrs. Frederick Verney
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8050
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Current location
Junction of Marston Road & Green End,
St. John the Baptist Churchyard
Marston Road
Granborough
Aylesbury Vale
Buckinghamshire
MK18 3NN
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 76761 25011
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Three-stepped octagonal base surmounted by a square sectioned plinth, transposing to an octagonal section with chamfer at top, octagonal sectioned tapering column, boss & Gothic fitchy cross. Incised inscription on plinth, names on upper step..
- Inscription
- Plinth face 1 : 1914-1918 / THEIR NAME / LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE Plinth face 2 : + IN HONOURED / REMEMBRANCE / OF ALL WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / AND ESPECIALLY / OF THOSE FROM / GRANBOROUGH Upper step face : (5 NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Curtis, Charles E
Dickens, Aubrey John Edward
Dickens, Rowland
Foskett, Herbert
Rickard, Ernest Thomas
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 4870 mm
Materials: Stone - Clipsham
- Cross
- Listing information
- Granborough 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
- Granborough
- WMO ID: 115269
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 03-07-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2011: Restored by Parish Council with a grant from War Memorials Trust.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Parish Council
- Reference
- Bucks Herald 30 July 1921
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