Cheshunt

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Reference WMO/253581

Address:

The Almshouses

105-141 Turner's Hill

Cheshunt

EN8

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Post-1945 War or Conflict
About the memorial: Large Latin cross on three-stepped base, with names all around the side and on black tablets by the base. The memorial is completely surrounded by the almshouses on one side and other old persons houses on the other three sides. It is accessed along a path off an unmade road beside a public house, through the central arch from Turners Hill or for step free access from Victoria Close.
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Front of Cross: To the/ Glorious Memory/ of those/ Brave Men/ of/ Cheshunt/ who laid down/ their lives for our/ Country/ in the/ Great War/ 1914-1919/ This/ Cross/ and the/ Homes of Rest/ around this enclosure/ were erected./ -----/ Lord God of Hosts be with us yet/ Lest We forget, Lest We forget./ Kipling. Front Lower Panel: In everlasting/ memory of all the/ residents of Cheshunt/ and Waltham Cross/ who gaves their lives/ during the Second/ Great War/ 1939 - 1945/ amd in conflist all/ over the world since/ 1945

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