Thetford War Memorial

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Reference WMO/72130

Address:

Market Place

Thetford

IP24 2AL

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: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A latin cross surmounting a red granite octagonal column, sitting upon an octangonal plinth upon which are inscribed on seven side the names of the fallen of WW1, and on a single, rear face, and extending to the base, the names of the fallen of WW2. The whole mounted on a square base atop a two-step base. With a metal post at each corner, linked by chains. An original programme of the unveiling of this memorial on 4 December, 1921, with a roll of honour of those commemorated on the memorial is located with another memorial within the Royal British Legion Club on the Market Place.
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1914 1918/ IN/ EVER GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF/ THIS BOROUGH/ WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 'LEST WE FORGET'

(WW1) (First face) W. P. ALLATSON/ E. R. ASHFIELD/ S. W. ALLISON/ F. ARCHER/ A. H. BAKER/ J. E. BACKLOG/ E. J. BACKLOG/ W. G. BAMBRIDGE/ W. G. BAMBRIDGE/ W. E. BARKER/ W. R. BECKETT/ J. A. BURTON/ A. W. BEALES/ C. BENNETT/ A. D. BOAST/ C. BELL/ D. G. BELL/ F. CLAXTON/ (Second face) W. BUTCHER/ C. BYE/ G. BYE/ A. E. CARTER/ H. F. CARTER/ C. V. CHASE/ F. E. CRICK/ E. CUTTING/ V. C. CAMPKIN/ A. COOKE/ S. COOKE/ C. C. COLE/ L. O. CRAWFORD/ H. DICKERSON/ H. E. DEBENHAM/ L. A. DICKERSON/ J. W. DIVER/ F. I. DIVER/ A. G. DAVEY/ A. N. EALAND/ (Third face) C. E. ELMER/ F. H. FISON/ B. FROST/ H. L. FLINT/ T. A. FOWELL/ W. A. GREEN/ W. R. GEE/ W. J. GRINLING/ W. GIBBS/ W. E. GERMANY/ A. F. GAYFORD/ P. F. W. HORD/ C. J. HORN/ L. M. HAMBLING/ W. HUGGINS/ A. C. HAMMOND/ C. J. HAILSTONE/ C. HUBBARD/ B. ?. JACKSON/ W. J. KYBIRD/ (Fourth face) W. R. KEMBALL/ J. KENYON/ G. W. LEGGATT/ A. E. LOCKWOOD/ A. C. LANE/ P. LEBBON/ C. W. LOCKWOOD/ W. F. LAMBERT/ W. B. LEWIS/ H. H. MANN/ B. MUTEHAM/ C. MUTEHAM/ L. B. MAKINS/ L. NEWTON/ J. A. NOTTINGHAM/ W. C. NUNN/ E. J. NUNN/ W. NICHOLLS/ J. W. OLLINGTON/ W. G. PEARSON/ (Fifth face) W. R. PLATFOOT/ H. PAPE/ C. PICKETT/ E. J. QUADLING/ E. O. READ/ H. RUSSELL/ H. SIMPSON/ S. G. SMITH/ H. SMITH/ L. H. SMITH/ B. R. J. STAGG/ H. STREET/ E. H. SPENCER/ W. A. SPAUL/ J. B. SCARROW/ W. A. SPINKS/ H. J. STEVENS/ E. S. STEVENS/ A. E. STEGGLES/ C. W. SAYER/ (Sixth face) A. STREET/ W. J. STUBBINGS/ H. I. SMITH/ R. W. STEVENS/ A. E. STEAD/ F. W. SNELLING/ S. A. TURRINGTON/ A. W. THURSTON/ P. W. J. THACKER/ C. E. A. WELLS/ W. E. WAGG/ B. WEBB/ R. S. C. WILSON/ G. C. C. WILSON/ V. B. WOODS/ E. R. WYATT/ L. C. WILSON/ J. MUTEHAM/ (WW2 names still to be transcribed)

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