Entrance to Garden of Remembrance , Market Square, Market Harborough - Market Harborough

World War II

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  • Listing Status: Not Individually Listed
  • District: Harborough
  • Parish: Market Harborough

Wrought iron gates defining entrance to garden of remembrance painted blue and with iron plaques on two centre pillars bearing inscription. Two large central gates, two small gates to either side. The name of Private B.W. Coleman, a casualty of WW2, was added in 2018.

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View Further Details Memorial Type:Garden, Gate or Lychgate Ref: WMP0742 Other Designation: Conservation Area Notes: The gates to the Garden of Remembrance came originally from the Gopsall Hall estate. Following the end of WW2 there was some public debate about whether to move the WW1 memorial cross to the new garden of remembrance. This idea was eventually dismissed (people protested that the Market Square was where the soldiers marched out from, so should be the spot where they were honoured). UKNIWM Ref: 55420 Information Sources: DK, LCC Special Categories: Women Website Links: http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grant...

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Entrance to Garden of Remembrance , Market Square, Market Harborough - Market Harborough
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Inscription Reads

THESE GATES
AND GARDEN OF
REMEMBRANCE
COMMEMORATE
THE LOYALTY
COURAGE
DEVOTION
AND SACRIFICE
OF THOSE OF
THIS TOWN WHO
LAID DOWN
THEIR LIVES IN
THE SERVICE OF
THEIR COUNTRY
DURING THE
WORLD WAR
1939-1945
TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN
HONOURED
MEMORY OF
[NAMES]

Casualties Listing

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Name Rank Unit Batt Died Cotton - Arthur Private Leicestershire Regiment 7 16/07/1944 Cotton - Jesse Ernest Sergeant (air Gunner) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 640 Squadron 22/11/1944 Cowley - Leonard Thomas Private 1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regt. Crackles - Jack Private Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1 22/01/1944 Dawson - George Ray Driver Royal Corps Of Signals 26/10/1942
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