Memorial

Yeovil

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Current Location

The Borough, Yeovil, South Somerset, Somerset, BA20 1PW, England

ST 55686 15946

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 1404
Description: Eleanor cross mounted on octagonal castellated plinth. Plinth has gothic arch insets with plaques with names mounted within.
Inscription: TO THE/ IMMORTAL/ MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ THIS TOWN/ WHO/ LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ IN/ WORLD WAR II/ AND OTHER WARS// 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/ (Names)

Maker(s): APPLEBY & CHILDS, Mason
Maintenance History: 2018. Memorial renovated and all panels renewed with over 40 errors corrected and 53 names from WW1 added. Reference to Lt Horwood's VC not included. 2018 name of C Langtry added to memorial 2012 July name of Lt A G Horwood VC, DCM added to WW2 names. 2008: The stone pillars on the memorial were damaged when a man climbed on the memorial. The man was charged by police. 2006: WW2 name of LCpl P Perry added 2006: Name of a WW2 casualty, Lance Coporal Phillip Perry, RAOC, who died in a Japanese POW camp but was omitted from the memorial, was added in April 2004: To be cleaned by the town council in MArch 1953. Civilian War Dead added