Memorial
Preston on Stour
Preston On Stour cross
Source: Helen Steed
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Current Location
Centre of Village,, Village Green, Main Street, Preston on Stour, Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 8NG, England
OS Grid Reference
SP 20396 49968
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 19355
- Description
- Two-stepped square base surmounted by a rough-hewn, square sectioned tapering plinth with two recessed & smoothed inscription faces. Incised inscription lettering originally infilled in black but now fading. Rising from the plinth is a rough-hewn rectangular sectioned tapering wheel cross.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face : TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF ALL WHO FELL SERVING / THEIR GOD, KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / AND ESPECIALLY OF / (4 NAMES) / THIS MONUMENT IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED / BY THE PARISHIONERS OF PRESTON-ON-STOUR 3 o'clock face : 1939 - 1945 (3 NAMES)
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 4
- Died
- 4
- Information shown
- surname, regiment, rank, forename, honours
- Order of names
- Surname
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 3
- Died
- 3
- Information shown
- Surname, forename, regiment, rank, honours
- Order of names
- Rank
Components
- Cross
Made from: Stone
Condition: Poor
- Plinth
Made from: Stone
Condition: Poor
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- War Memorials Trust Reference Number
- 104676
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