Mortehoe

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Reference WMO/98493

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St Mary Magdalene Church

The Esplanade

Mortehoe

EX34 7DT

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: The memorial takes the form of a small Celtic type wheel-head cross upon a tall and slender octagonal column, which in turn rests upon on a square plinth. Below this is a stepped hexagonal pedestal. The memorial records the names of twenty-six men of Mortehoe who fell in the Great War, eight men who fell in the Second World War and a single soldier of the Korean War. the names of the men who fell in the First World War are carved on the plinth; those of the men who fell in the Second World War and Korean War are carved on the third step of the pedestal. HISTORY: The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. The Mortehoe memorial was erected circa 1920 to commemorate those who fell during that war with later inscriptions added to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and latterly, the Korean War. c Historic England Listing information
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The inscription on the east (front) of the plinth reads: 'IN LOVING / REMEMBRANCE / OF OUR / GALLANT MEN / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / THEIR SOULS TO THEIR GOD (NAMES) 1939-1945 / (NAMES) / 1950-53 / (NAME)';

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Grade II (England)

https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396428

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