- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 26788
- Description
- VERY TALL PLAIN CROSS WITH SQUARE WHEEL. ON ORNATE PLINTH AND THREE STEPPED BASE
The WW1 names are on plaques around the hexagonal plinth.
Two plaques with WW2 names are on the wall behind, together with one carrying the names the victims of an Air Raid on Sherborne in September 1940.
Below these three plaques are two more with names of members of the 294th Engineer Combat Division of the US Army (US Armed Forces)
- Inscription
- IN MEMORIAM 1914-1919 /THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR/GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS/ IN MEMORIAM 1914-1919//
THOSE WHO DIED IN THE AIR RAID/ ON SHERBORNE 30 SEPTEMBER 1940/ (18 NAMES)/
294TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION/ UNITED STATES ARMY/ ON MARCH 20, 1944, WHILE COMPLETING THEIR TRAINING FOR THE INVASION OF NORMANDY, 29 MEMBERS/ OF C COMPANY, 294TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION, WERE KILLED IN AN ANTITANK MINE EXPLOSION IN SHERBORNE. THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED TO THEIR MEMORY./ (NAMES) JUNE 6, 1989.//
294th ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION/UNITED STATES ARMY/ On 6th June, 1989,surviving member of the 294th Engineer Combat Battalion presented the plaque to commemorate/ its members killed in action and to express its gratitude to the people of Sherborne for their friendship in 1944/ while the battalion completed its preparations for the invasion of Europe. The battalion left this town to serve/ as part of the VII Army Corps in the battles in Normandy, Northern France, The Hurtgen Forest, The Ardennes,/ The Rhineland and Central Germany. We recall those killed during these campaigns./ (16 names)
(VII Corps Insignia)
Central Europe/Northern France/Rhineland/Ardennes/Hurtgen Forest
