Bream

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Reference WMO/75648

Address:

High Street

Bream

Lydney

GL15 6JF

England

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In 2021, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Cenotaph situated at village viewpoint on the High Street, with extensive views to the North. A First World War memorial, erected in 1921, designed by architects Kennard and Kennard of London; altered after the Second World War. Bream War Memorial was unveiled on 11 September 1921 by General Tyler, and dedicated by Rev CHT Wright. The monument's cost of £750 was paid for by public subscription from the ecclesiastical parish of Bream. Funds from the Soldiers and Sailors Presentation Fund that was begun during the First World War was used as the nucleus. The owners of Princess Royal Colliery, the major employer of the village, paid £250 towards the cost, matched by the employed miners’ contribution of £250. The remainder was raised from door-to-door collections. The architects were Kennard and Kennard of Gray's Inn Square, London; the design was inspired by Lutyens’ national Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. At the unveiling ceremony, a further collection was made, to fund railings to protect the monument and wreaths from the local free-roaming sheep.
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Front Inscription : TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD Front Base : TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD Front Panel 1914 - 1918 (Insiced) GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND Side Panel WW2 : Metal plaque with raised lettering. ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’

1914 -18: …. A. BROOKS, A. DODGSHON, E. EVANS, P. FROWEN, H.L. HOWELLS, T. JONES, W.T. KEAR, J. KENT, E. KILBY, L. LODGE, E. LUCAS, L. MAYNE, J. MATTY, G. NELMES, W.H. PEARCE, A.E. THOMAS, H. WASLEY, A. WATKINS, O. WILKS, G. WYNN. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1939 -1945 : M BATH, N. BAKER, N. CROTE, B. CARPENTER, T. CHALLENGER, W. DREW, S. DREW, D. DAVIS, D. HANCOCK, D. JENKYNS, ?. JAMES, ? MEEK, B. MOORE, O. MORGAN, C. MARSHALL, J. MELSON, J. OVERINGTON, T. TUBLEY, D. WINTLE, W. WALDIN, S. WILKS, W. W_DIN, DOOGEE BROOKES, DOROTHY HANCOCKS (See comments)

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