- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 10262
- Description
- Cross of wheel type on a tapered two tiered pedestal resting on three steps.
The tapered shaft of the cross has a cable design raised around its front edge, and there are raised bosses at the four points of the cross. The dates are in the shaft, raised in carving. Below them is one name and a part of the dedication. The rest of the dedication is on the front face of the pedestal, with the name of the colliery on the lower section of the pedestal.
On the other three faces of the lower part of the pedestal are the names for 1939-45.
All lettering is in Roman capitals.
- Inscription
- 1914 / 1918 / ARTHUR T . WATSON / MAJOR, K R R / KILLED IN ACTION / AT PASSCHENDAELE / 5TH AUGUST 1917 / THE WORKMEN OF THIS / VILLAGE WISH TO PLACE / ON RECORD THEIR / SORROW AT THE LOSS / OF THEIR FRIENDS AND / EMPLOYER WHOSE / MEMORY THEY WILL / HOLD IN AFFECTION / FOR ALL TIME. / IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF THIS COLLIERY WHO / FOUGHT AND IN EVER GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR GOD / AND FOR COUNTRY, FOR RIGHT, FOR FREEDOM, AND / FOR PEACE IN THE GREAT WAR. / "SEE YE TO IT / THAT THESE SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN. / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE".In the year 2000 AD / this memorial was restored by / the people of Hamsterley and Low Westwood / so that generations present and future / may honour the Great Sacrifice made for us all./[names]