Timber Memorial Cross, Branston

World War I

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  • Listing Status: Grade II
  • District: Melton
  • Parish: Croxton Kerrial

Wooden cross with carved Christ on stone plinth with leaded inscription and names of the fallen. The names of those who returned from service are carved onto wooden tablets located to either side, on wall. The curving back wall is a deliberately-created semi-circular niche in the churchyard wall, with an eyebrow head at the centre, behind the calvary cross. The ground is paved, with a kerb denoting the original line of the churchyard wall.

View Further Details Memorial Type:Cross Ref: WMP0187 Other Designation: Conservation Area Notes: Awarded Grade II listing status on 26/6/2018 List Entry Number 1456815 UKNIWM Ref: 37790 Information Sources: AF, LCC Special Categories: Survivors

Location

Memorial Cross, St Guthlac's Churchyard - Branston
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Inscription Reads

LORD, REMEMBER WHEN THOU COMEST
IN THY KINGDOM THOSE WHO GAVE LIFE
FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
[NAMES]
RIP
SONS OF THIS PLACE, LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID,
THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD,
THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES, THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP
A RICHER HARVEST, ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP.


Rolls of Honour to walls: IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/THE MEN OF BRANSTON WHO WENT/ TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY IN/THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/AND RETURNED IN SAFETY/WE THANK THEE O GOD/ (NAMES)

Casualties Listing

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Name Rank Unit Batt Died Bemrose - Harry Sergeant Leicestershire Regiment 8 03/05/1917 Grass - George Private Leicestershire Regiment 7 14/10/1918 Hollis - Derrick Lieutenant East Kent Regt. Peregrine - John Pryor Puxon Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment 1 01/07/1916 Thornton - John Thomas Sergeant Lincolnshire Regiment 7 03/07/1916