Brancaster

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Reference WMO/163983

Address:

St Mary the Virgin Church

Broad Lane

Brancaster

PE31 8AU

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
About the memorial: In the corner of the churchyard, overlooking the road junction, standing behind metal railings. A granite wheel cross, the column emblazoned with the cross of peace in relief, upon a tapered plinth, the front face of which commemorates those who died in WW1, upon a wider tapered base, upon which are commemorated the fallen from WW2 and one from the Berlin Airlift.
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ERECTED TO THE MEMORY/ OF BRANCASTER MEN/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ 1914-1919/ (Names)/ THERE NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ (Below)- 1939-1949/ (Names)/ 1949/ (Name)

(WW1) B. LOOSE/ WILLIAM BILLING/ JOHN BRITTON/ DAVID FERNIE/ WALTER FIDDAMAN/ BEDE GUTHRIE/ HERBERT HARRELL/ ANDREW KING/ GEORGE LAKE/ CYRIL THOMPSON LARGE M.M./ R. EDMUND LOYNES/ HERBERT MARTIN/ C.W.BERTIE MATSELL/ JOHN NUDDS/ ERNEST PETCHEY/ ALFRED PITCHER/ CHARLES PORTER/ SAMUEL PROUDFOOT/ CHARLES RANSON/ JOHN RANSON M.M./ CHARLES RAVEN/ CHARLES SIMS REEVE/ WILLIAM SKIPPER/ RUSSELL SOUTHERLAND/ ALBERT WEST/ PERCY WILLIAMSON/ ROBERT ISAAC WINTERBONE/ HERBERT WOODBINE/ HERBERT YOUNGS/ THOMAS YOUNGS (WW2) JONATHAN CORY-WRIGHT/ JULIAN CORY-WRIGHT/ PHYLLIS DUFFIELD/ DAVID GILLIAT/ ANTHONY HAWLEY/ HERBERT SUTHERLAND (1949) BERLIN AIR LIFT - JOHN SHARP D.F.C.

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