Birchington and Acol

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Reference WMO/120983

Address:

All Saints Church

Canterbury Road

Birchington

CT7 9AF

England

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Status: Unknown
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: This war memorial is in the form of a large granite Latin cross with inscriptions cut and painted into the surface. It is at the end of the churchyward where Canterbury Road meets Park Lane and Birchington Square. Latin stone cross, with a Tudor Rose on and the badge of Prince Wales one on each side of the cross. The cross is mounted on a base with four panels, upon three broad surrounding steps of different sizes. Next to cross is two stone plaques fixed to the wall for the Second World War
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Front face: THE POPULATION OF BIRCHINGTON/ AND ACOL/ AUGUST 1914 WAS 2522/ 474 MEN JOINED H.M. FORCES OF/ WHOM 69 GAVE THEIR LIVES/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ HAIL! AND FAREWELL/ ALL HONOUR GIVE/ TO THOSE WHO NOBLY/ STRIVING NOBLY FELL/ THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ OXENHAM/ WELL DONE FOR THEM/ AND FAIR ISLE, WELL/ FOR THEE/ WHILE THAT THY BOSOM/ BEARETH SONS LIKE THOSE/ THE LITTLE GEM/ SET IN THE SILVER SEA/ SHALL NEVER FEAR HER FOES/ ARNOLD Other faces: (Names) Left Tablet: 1939-1945/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HALLOWED MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM BIRCHINGTON AND ACOL/ WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ (Names) Right Tablet: (Names)/ THESE TABLETS WERE ERECTED BY/ THE MAYOR ALDERMEN AND BURGESSES/ OF THE BOROUGH OF MARGATE

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