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Reference WMO/159478

Address:

The Mere

York Road

Bishop Burton

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other cross
Materials:
  • Rock/Rough Stone Rock/Rough Stone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Memorial overlooks looks the village Mere and can be seen from the York road. After a public subscription which raised £641 two memorials were erected in 1923, the remainder of the cost was met by the Hall Watt family the estate owners of Bishop Burton. Richard Hall Watt was killed in October 1917 serving as a Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards aged 19. He was one of seven men from the village killed in the war, whilst two sets of brothers are recorded on the memorial, ( the Curtis and Hudson brothers).
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2nd Lieutenant Richard Hall Watt 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Private William Berridge Northumberland Fusiliers. Lance Corporal Albert Curtis Seaforth Hihlanders. Private Albert Curtis, West Yorkshire Regiment. Private Ernest Hawes, Army Service Corps. Driver Richard Hudson, Royal Field Artillery. Private Herbert Hudson, Manchester Regiment.

Grade II (England)

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