- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 21010
- Description
- Beautifully worked hooded Calvary. Above life size figure of Christ fixed to wooden Cross, square granite plinth and two stepped base. Set in walled enclosure with ornamental gates
- Inscription
- (ON GATES) GREATER LOVE/ THAN THIS NO/ MAN HATH: THAT/ A MAN LAID DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR/ HIS FRIENDS
(NORTH) WHO DIES THAT ENGLAND LIVES/ IN PROUD AND GLORIOUS MEMORY OF/ 2ND LIEUT JAMES COLLIER FOSTER HARTER/ SHERWOOD RANGERS YEOMANRY/ ELDER SON OF GEORGE LOYD FOSTER/ AND FRANCES GERALDINE HARTER NEE COKE/ OF SALPERTON PARK/ WHO DIED OF WOUNDS ABOUT NOV 28 1917, 13 MILES/ FROM JERUSALEM/ ESSAYING TO DELIVER THE/ HOLY LAND FROM THE INFEDIALS (SIC) (FOR WHICH AN/ ANCESTOR OF HIS HAD ALSO FOUGHT 1247 - 1260)/ AND IS BURIED AT SUFFA IN PALESTINE. AGE 28/ ALSO OF THEIR SON-IN-LAW/ LIEUT FRANCIS SOMERLED JOSEPH SILVERTOP/ OXFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY/ OF MINSTER ACRES NORTHUMBERLAND/ KILLED IN ACTION AT CUILLEMONT FARM/ MAY 20 1917 AGE 33/ AND IS BURIED AT ST EMELIE/ AND JESUS LOOKING ON HIM LOVED HIM/ R.I.P./ WE BLESS AND THANK THEE LORD FOR THOSE THE GOOD/ AND BRAVE, WHO EAGER AT THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL/ STRUNG, UNDISMAYED, SURRENDED ALL/ GRANT THEM ETERNAL REST
(WEST) ALSO OF THEIR THREE NEPHEWS (NAMES)
(SOUTH) (FAMILY NAMES)
(EAST) (VILLAGERS NAMES)/ AND TO US WHO ARE LEFT TO MOURN THEIR DEPARTURE GRANT/ THAT WE MAY NOT SORROW AS THOSE WITHOUT HOPE FOR OUR/ BELOVED WHO SLEEP IN THEE,BUT THAT ALWAYS REMEMBERING/ THEIR COURAGE AND THE LOVE THAT UNITED US ON EARTH, WE/ MAY BEGIN WITH NEW COURAGE TO SERVE THEE MORE FERVENTLY/ AND THAT WHEN WE HAVE PASSED A FEW MORE DAYS IN THIS VALLEY/ OF TEARS WE MAY SEE THEM AGAIN FACE TO FACE IN THOSE/ PASTURES WHERE WE TRUST THAT THEY ALREADY WALK WITH THEE