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Reference WMO/194278

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Haverhill Cemetery

Withersfield Road

Haverhill

CB9 9HE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Lettering: Incised
About the memorial: The war memorial, in the centre of the cemetery, 18 feet high, it is an Aberdeen granite tapering Latin cross on an octagonal plinth on an octagonal three stepped Portland stone base. Inset into the plinth are eight polished granite tablets bearing the incised and black painted names of those who died in the 1914-1919 war. On the north east face is the dedication, the name tablets going counter clockwise in alphabetical order (with one or two late additions, out of order). On the south west face of the base of the cross in an additional small tablet with four additional names. This is all set within a low stone wall which bears dedications to , and the names of Haverhill men who fell in 1939-1945 and those of the Commonwealth and other parts of the U.K. who are buried nearby. In one of the surrounding grassed area is another tablet for one man who was killed in Northern Ireland. Designed by Mr. E.C.Green and unveiled by Lt.General Sir Charles Briggs K.C.B.,K.C.M.G. and dedicated on 21st November 1920 by local clergy. The cost was £1,250. A report was made in the South West Suffolk Echo on 27th November 1920. In June 2016 the memorial was rededicated after two names had been added to the World War Two memorial. Haverhill Family History Group members Jeanie Smith and Charmian Thompson discovered RAF men Sergeant Thomas English, of 9 Squadron, and Pilot Officer John Gurteen of 504 Squadron, had been left off it. Sgt English married teacher Doris Bigmore, of The Pightle, Haverhill, in November 1939 while stationed at RAF Stradishall on bombers. Pilot Officer Gurteen was the son of Mr and Mrs Conrad Gurteen, of The Woodlands, Haverhill. He flew in the Battle of Britain from RAF Hendon. Also the Northern Ireland memorial dedicated to Sgt Graham Cox, who was killed in Belfast in 1971, has been raised and angled to make it more visible. Sgt Cox was with the 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards, attached to the Parachute Squadron, Royal Armoured Corps, when he was hit by an IRA sniper’s bullet.
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On the plinth: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH / THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE / INHABITANTS OF HAVERHILL IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO / LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS / FRIENDS" / (names on other faces) On surrounding wall: THESE PANELS WERE PLACED/ HERE BY THE INHABITANTS/ OF HAVERHILL IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names) IN MEMORY OF/ FORTY-TWO MEN OF THE/ BRITISH COMMONWEALTH/ EMPIRE AND ALLIED NATIONS/ WHO DIED IN THEIR COUNTRY'S/ SERVICE AND WHOSE MORTAL/ REMAINS REST NEAR/ THIS CROSS Tablet on ground in front of cross: 1914 + 1919/ WE WILL/ REMEMBER THEM/ 1939 + 1945 Tablet on ground to side of cross IN MEMORY OF TOSE KILLED / WHILST ON ACTIVE SERVICE / IN NORTHERN IRELAND

The WW1 names are on the plinth, two columns to each face in alphabetical order - face 1 left column:- AGER,PERCY / ALDERTON,HERBERT / AMEY,PERCY / ANDREWS,ERNEST / ANDREW,REGINALD / ARBER,FRANK / ASHPLANT,WILLIAM / BACKLER,ABNER / BACKLER,ALBERT / BACKLER,FRANK / (face 1 rt col) BACKLER,HARRY / BACON,CONRAD / BACON,JACKSON / BARBER,WILLIAM / BEAVIS,ARTHUR / BEAVIS,FREDERICK / BETTS,CECIL / BETTS,HORACE / BOYDEN,PERCY / BRAY,WILLIAM (face 2 left col) BROWN,ARTHUR / BROWN,CLIFFORD / BROWN,FRANK / BROWN,HARVEY / BROWN,HUBERT / BURGON,JACK / BURTON,REGGIE / CHALLIS,ARTHUR / CHAPMAN,VICTOR / CLARKE,FRED (face 2 rt col) CLAYDON,ALBERT C / CLAYDON,JOHN / CLAYDON,STANLEY / CLAYDON,WILLIAM / CLAYDON WM.CHAS / COLLAR,PHILIP / CUMMINS,LESLIE / DURRANT,FREDERICK / ELLES,OCTAVIUS / EVANS,REGGIE (face 3 left col)FARRANT,ARTHUR / FARRANT DICK / FARRANT,FRANK / FARRANT, FRED / FARRANT,HARRY / FARRANT,MAJOR / FARRANT,STANLEY / FIFIELD,BERTIE / FORD,FRED / FORD,HARRY / (face 3 rt col) FORD,THOMAS / FREEMAN,DANIEL / GILDER,SAMUEL / GILDER,SYDNEY / GOODMAN,ERIC / GREEN,WM FRANK / HALLS,FRANK / HAWKES,WILLIAM / HEAD,BERNARD / HECKFORD,ALBERT (face 4 left col) HINDE,RALPH / HUMPHREY,ERNEST / HUMPHREY,WILLIAM / IRON,ROBERT / JARRALD,JOHN / JENNINGS,ALBERT / JOBSON,ARTHUR / JOBSON,FRED / JOBSON,JOHN / JOBSON, STANLEY (face 4 rt col) JONES,IVOR / JONES,MERFYN / KIDDY,CHARLES / KIDDY,TED / KIMMENCE,WILLIAM / KING,HARRY / LAZELL,CLIFFORD / LLOYD,ELIAS / LOVEDAY,ALBERT / MALYON,ALBERT (face 5 left col) MARSH,PERCY / MAYES,JAMES / MEAD,PETER / MIDSON,ROBERT / MILLS, PEM / MORLEY,REGINALD / NUNN,E / NUNN,GEORGE / NUNN,HARRY / ORBELL,HARRY (face 5 rt col) PARKER,ARTHUR / PARMENTER,HENRY / PAYNE,ALFRED / PAYNE,CHARLIE / PAYNE,FRED / PECK,REGINALD / PERRY,PERCY / POTTER,HAROLD / PURKIS,CHARLES / RADFORD,VERNER (face 6 left col) RASH,CLEMENT / RICHARDSON,THOMAS / RISING,HARRY / ROBSON,FRED G / SARGEANT,WILLIAM / SCOTT,ERNEST / SHIPP,ALBERT / SHIPP,ALBERT / SHIPP,ERNEST GEO / SHIPP,HARRY (face 6 rt col) SHIPP,WALTER / SHIPP,WILLIAM / SIGGS,FREDERICK / SIZER,CLIFFORD / SIZER,ERNEST / SMITH,JOHN / SUCKLING,JOHN / THAKE,ERNEST / THEOBALD,ALFRED / TUFFIN,HERBERT (face 7 left col) TURNER,HARRY / TYLER,WAT / VINCENT,FRANCIS / WEBB,ALFRED JAS / WEBB,CECIL / WEBB,FRED / WEBB,FREDERICK R / WEBB,JACK / WEBB,STEPHEN / WEBB,THOMAS WM (face 7 rt col) WEBB,TOM / WHIFFING,PERCY / WHIFFING,PHILIP / WHIFFING,SPENCER D / WHYBROW,ERNEST / WILLIS,ALBERT / WILLIS, ARTHUR / WORDLEY,SIDNEY / WRIGHT,THOMAS / FARRANT,ARTHUR (on small tablet on reverse of cross) JAMES THOMAS IRON D.S.M. / ALEXANDER G.TURNER / FREDERICK E.TURNER / JOHN BACON. On two panels on the surrounding wall, panel 1 left col: H.C.ARCHER / H.P.ASHARD / JOAN BACKLER / A.R.BARBER / G.W.BARBER / E.J.BARRETT / J.BIGMORE / R.T.BLACK / E.BRDFORD / T.H.ENLGISH (panel 1 rt col) E.C.BROUGHTON / R.BUNN / C.W.BUTTLE / F.CHISNALL / S.H.CHOAT / R.A.CLAYDON / S.L.DEDMAN / P.A.DONOVAN / B.R.FARRANT / J.V.GURTEEN (panel 2 left col) P.R.C.FREEMAN / W.GRAYSON / T.HICKFORD / R.J.LAMB / L.J.NUNN / S.MOORE / E.G.POOLE / S.H.RDFORD / A.E.RATCLIFFE (panel 2 rt col) J.ROSS-HOFF / D.R.SMITH / R.TAYLOR / P.W.TURNER / W.G.TURNER / C.H.WALTERS / G.T.WEBB / H.J.WILLIS / R.A.WILLIS (on a tablet on the grassed area) GRAHAM A.COX

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