Sledmere Wagoners' (Waggoners) Reserves Pillar

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Reference WMO/187483

Address:

Junction of Main Street and Kirby Lane

Sledmere

YO25

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Large cylindrical stone column with pitched roof. Column bears elaborate carvings and four small external columns are set at intervals around the main column. The external columns rise to four tapered pinnacles at top. The external columns have geometric patterned carvings. The whole is surmounted by a pyramid roof and is mounted on a five-stepped base.// Carved scenes on main column depict events as referred to in my photographic captions.
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(Around top) Lt. Col. Sir Mark Sykes Bart MP designed this monument and set it up as a remembrance of the gallant services rendered in the Great War 1914 by the Waggoners Reserve, a corp of 1000 drivers raised by him on the Yorkshire Wolds farms in the year 1912. Other inscriptions, as inscribed on the lower panel of side 3 of this monument, are found on the IWM and Historic England websites.

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Grade I (England)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1161354

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