Memorial

Church Gresley

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Current Location

In a memorial garden at the corner of York Road and Market Street, Market Street, Church Gresley, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, DE11 9QG, England

SK 29811 18731

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Type of Memorial: Pillar / Column
WMR Reference Number: 19153
Description: A granite monument comprising a rough hewn and rusticated tapered pillar terminated by a dressed moulded squat finial and surmounting a die and three stepped base on a concrete plinth. The 6 o'clock face of the die has a dressed, recessed panel containing an inlaid inscription in upright capital block lettering and the 6 o'clock face of the pillar bears a Nowy headed and tapered polished granite tablet with WW1 names (largely in two columns) also inlaid in upright capital block lettering. The 6 o'clock face of the steps bear five stainless steel plaques commemorating the later conflicts with black, engraved inscriptions in different styles of lettering. The whole is surrounded by a tarmacadam paving enclosed within twelve sandstone obelisk bollards connected by iron chains.
Inscription: Panel: ERECTED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/ GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN/ FROM CHURCH GRESLEY WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 TO 1918./ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." Tablet on pillar: (Names) Plaque on top step: GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING/ WORLD WAR II/ 1939 - 1945 Plaque at centre of second step: (Names) Plaque at right of second step: (Names) Plaque at centre of bottom step: GULF CONFLICT/ 1990 - 1991/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES DURING THE GULF CONFLICT/ (Name) Plaque at right of bottom step: (Name)/ Killed in Action in Basra