Brigham

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Reference WMO/172218

Address:

St Bridget's Churchyard

Brigham

near Cockermouth

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other cross
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
About the memorial: Red Granite stone with polished dedication face, surmounted by a rough hewn red granite cross. Grade II Listed, lit entry number 1457578
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IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF BRIGHAM PARISH/WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/[names]/“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS/LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” 1939-1945/[names in 3 columns]

WW1- L CORP THOMAS PARKER 5TH BORDER 5 JUNE 1915 PTE THOMAS TAIT 6TH BORDER 25 SEP 1915 PTE JOSEPH BENSON 7TH BORDER 16 FEB 1916 PTE WILLIAM HAYSTON 2ND BORDER 22 FEB 1916 PTE THOMAS L A MUSSON 8TH SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS 3 MAY 1916 PTE THOMPSON RENNEY 2ND BORDER 29 JUNE 1916 PTE SKELTON HAYSTON RFA 21 AUG 1916 PTE BENJAMIN T MAVIR 8TH DUKE OF WELLINGTON 15 SEP 1916 PTE WILLIAM GILL W & C YEOMANRY 10 JULY 1917 DRIVER WILLIAM WILSON ASC 6 AUG 1917 PTE DANIEL WILKINSON 1/5 LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS 3 SEPT 1917 PTE JOHN C SOWERBY 8TH SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS 4 OCT 1917 L CORP RICHARD RELPH W & C YEOMANRY 12 OCT 1917 PTE THOMAS C WALTON 2/5 MANCHESTER 22 MAR 1918 PTE JOSEPH S WARTON 13TH GRENADIER GUARDS 13 APRIL 1918 PTE WILLIAM F SANDERSON 11TH BORDER 13 APRIL 1918 PTE CHARLES WALKER MACHINE GUN CORPS 15 APRIL 1918 L CORP SAMUEL S MOORE 2ND KOSB 27 MAY 1918 PTE JACK CARRUTHERS 7TH EAST YORKS 8 SEPT 1918 PTE HENRY ROBINSON 7TH EAST YORKS 18 SEPT 1918 SERGT AMOS A WALTON 8TH BORDER 14 NOV 1918 PTE THOMAS W STEPHENSON 7TH BORDER 19 JAN 1919 Note Thomas Parker, Amos Walton & Thomas Stephenson are buried here. There is also a family gravestone commemorating an additional casualty, T C Walton who died in France 1918. 1939-1945- Column 1-J E ALLISON/T D BECK/A G DICKSON/A E DIXON/J L W DOUGLAS/J J FORRESTER Column 2-W G GORDON/W R GRICE/W F IRELAND/J R W KIRKPATRICK Column 3-J H M PAIN/W R RAFFERTY/G M SANDHAM/G W TUCKER MC [buried here]/J H TURRELL/W P WISE

Grade II (England)

1457578

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