43rd Wessex Division
Source: Orphan Work 26558
At Winyards Gap National Trust property. The stone memorial in White Hill Plantation has views over Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Wiltshire, the four counties that made up the Wessex Division., A356 Winyard's Gap / Wynyard's Gap inn, Chedington, Beaminster, West Dorset, Dorset, DT8 3SX, England
ST 49159 06096
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Messrs Harding and Elgar of New Street, Slisbury, Architect
Messrs Singer and Co of Dorset Road, South Lambeth, London cast the plaques, Founder / Foundry
Unveiled
20 September 1952
General Sir Ivor Thomas, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Quarter-Master-General to the Forces who commanded the Division through the North-West Europe campaign.
Height: c 3300mm
Made from: Stone
Condition: Good
Made from: Bronze
Condition: Good