Old Buckenham cross

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Reference WMO/72156

Address:

The Green

Attleborough Road

Old Buckenham

Attleborough

NR17 1RE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The war memorial in the village of Old Buckenham in southern Norfolk is a Portland stone design after Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice. It stands on an octagonal plinth and stepped base. There are black-painted inscriptions around the plinth and the base. The memorial stands on the Green and is surrounded by a black post and chain fence and gate. A York stone pathway leads to the memorial. To be found on the B1077 heading south from The Green.
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IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF OLD BUCKENHAM WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR. THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY LIONEL ROBINSON OF OLD BUCKENHAM HALL HIGH SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK IN THE YEAR 1916 31-8-1919

1914 - 1918 Pte. Horace Airey Pte. Percy Baxter Pte. Robert Barker Pte. Arthur Barker C.S.M. Daniel Bowen Pte. Herbert Bowen Pte. Wilfred Bowen Pte. Jacob Briggs Pte. John Catlyn C/Sgt. William Catlyn Pte. Alfred Comen Pte. Walter Comen Pte. Charles Dade L/Cpl. Herbert Derisley L/Cpl. Frank Derisley Dvr. William Derisley Pte. Thomas Fisher Pte. Charles Fisher Dvr. Charles Day Pte. Charles Garnham Dvr. George Garnham Pte. Alfred Gatherwood Pte. William Gedge Pte. Frederick Harvey Pte. William Hilton Pte. Hol Humphrey Pte. Lewis Humphrey Cpl. George Jenks Pte. L. Lancaster L/Cpl. Bertie Lincoln Pte C.W. Lincoln Pte. Edward Lincoln Pte. George Lovett Pte Sidney Reynolds Pte. Edward Sillis 1939 – 1945 Sgt. Philip Coleman Pte. Stanley Hilton Cpl. Robert Kerrison Sgt. Eric Mickleborough- Saunders John Parish R.N. Cpl. Herbert Pretty Gnr. Revers Pretty George Soanes, Canadian Army Gnr. Stanley Sturman

Grade II (England)

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