METHWOLD WAR MEMORIAL

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Reference WMO/142506

Address:

Methwold Cemetery

Stoke Road (B1112)

Methwold

Thetford

IP26 4PE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Standing just inside the entrance to the cemetery.A red granite needle-shaped obelisk, upon a graduated three-tiered plinth. The front face of the upper tier bears the general commemoration to those who fell in WW1, whilst on the next tier there is the commemoration for WW2. The names of the fallen are arranged in alphabetical order on the three other faces of their respective tiers, listing 40 names for WW1 and 14 for WW2. Full first names, additional initials and surnames are listed. There is no indication of rank, unit or date of death. (Note: These men are also commemorated on memorial boards for WW1 and WW2 in St. George's Church. Also, Thomas B. Hall, Arthur Howes, Arthur Melbourn, Arthur Pooley and William Spooner are commemorated on individual memorial plaques within the church)
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Erected in grateful memory to the men of Methwold who lost their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1919. Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. Also the fallen in war 1939 - 1945.

WWI - Victor Allen, Frank Armiger, Walter R. Bailey, Herbert J. Blowers, Henry Catlin, George Catlin, Jesse Crofts, Frederick Eagle, Jacob Flatt, Joseph Flatt, Jonathan Flatt, William Flatt, William Fuller, William J. Griggs, Thomas B. Hall, Augustus Howes, Arthur J. Howes, Sydney James, Walter James, Edgar Johnson, Herbert Jones, Arthur Melbourn, Albert Mott, William H. Peeling, Albert G. Peeling, Rowing Pond, Arthur Pooley, Jack R. Phillips, Harvey Smith, George Sparrow, Henry Sparrow, William Speed, William Spooner, William Stannard, Ernest Starling, Isaac Winner, Alfred Wortley Waters, Robert Watts, William Wortley, Bert Younge. WWII - Ernest Bloomfield, Robert Carter, Edward Dack, Albert Flogdell, Lewis Galley, Kenneth Lancaster, Oliver Lovelock, Bernard Palmer, George Sparrow, Geoffrey Slade, John Slapp, George Thompson, Jack Waterfall, Aubrey Waters.

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Grade II (England)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430669

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