Edenhall

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Reference WMO/172762

Address:

Village Centre opposite the Bus Shelter

Potter's Garth

Edenhall

CA11 8SR

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 Limestone
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: It comprises a c 3m tall wheel-head cross with Celtic knotwork to the front face, on a tapering shaft with relief-carved 1914 – 1918 dates, set on a tapering, four-sided plinth with a two-stepped square base. Limestone from Orton Scar. The memorial stands inside a roadside enclosure with capped piers bearing plaques of those who survived. Two cast iron posts linked by chains separate the enclosure from the road. The plinth and base of the cross bears the inscriptions in leaded lettering, alongside carved wreaths. The pier plaques bear the names of those who served and returned in leaded lettering.
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The inscription is in leaded lettering and reads: 1914/ 1918// (NAMES)// WE LIE DEAD IN FOREIGN LANDS/ THAT YOU MAY LIVE HERE IN PEACE// (roadside plaques:) NAMES (of those who returned).

CHRISTOPHER MUSGRAVE RN/HMS MONMOUTH/NOVEMBER 1914/AGED 15 YEARS TOM HOWE, ARMY SERVICE CORPS/FEBRUARY 24 1917, AGED 27 YEARS ARTHUR DIXON, 1ST KINGS OWN/ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT/SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 AGED 30 YEARS JOHN SCOTT GRAHAM, 7TH BORDER/REGIMENT/SEPTEMBER 18,1918, AGED 25 YEARS ERNEST GRAHAM MM 8TH BORDER REGIMENT/APRIL 13 1918 AGED 23 YEARS THOMAS GEORGE ROBINSON/ARMY SERVICE CORPS/NOVEMBER 14 1918 AGED 27 YEARS Left Hand Post (Served & Returned) PRIVATE CHARLES AIREY/PRIVATE ALBERT AIREY/PRIVATE JOHN D ARMSTRONG/DRIVER GEORGE W BIRD/ PROVATE ROBERT L BROCKBANK/SERGEANT JOSEPH DAVIDSON/LC CORPORAL WILLIA M DAVIDSON/ PRIVATE WILLIAM DODD/PRIVATE JOHN FURNESS/TROOPER ARTHUR GRAHAM/PRIVATE TOM GRAHAM/ THE REV BERNARD G R HALL/PRIVATE HERBERT HODGSON/PRIVATE F E ARMSTRONG Right Hand Post (Served & Returned) GUNNER FRED HOWE/SERGEANT FRANK LINTON/SERGEANT ARTHUR MALLINSON/ PRIVATE ALEXANDER MALLINSON/CAPTAIN J GRAHAM MOUNSEY/SECOND LT N G MUSGRAVE/ CORPORAL FREDERICK SAYER/SECOND LT JOHN SCOTT/LC CORPORAL AMBROSE SINCLAIR/ SAPPER WILLIAM TOLMIE/SAPPER JAMES TOLMIE/LC CORPORAL ROBERT E THOMPSON/ PTE ARTHUR THOMPSON/AIR MECHANIC THOMAS WHITING

Grade II (England)

1457758

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