Memorial
Wall And District Memorial Cross
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- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 34292
- Description
- WHEEL CROSS OF STONE WITH TAPERING SHAFT SURMOUNTING SQUARE-SET PEDESTAL OF ROUGH-HEWN STONE. INSCRIPTION IN LEAD LETTERING ON PEDESTAL. MEMORIAL IS SURROUNDED BY CAST IRON FENCE. CROWN AND OTHER INSIGNIA CARVED AT BASE OF SHAFT.
- Inscription
- ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN/ HONOUR OF THE MEN OF WALL/ AND DISTRICT WHO SERVED IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ OF WHOM THE FOLLOWING NINE/ GAVE THEIR ILVES/ (NAMES)/ "THEY JEOPARDED THEIR LIVES/ UNTO THE DEATH"
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 51
- Served
- 42
- Died
- 9
- Information shown
- rank,regiment
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 2
- Died
- 2
- Information shown
- rank,regiment
- Maker(s)
MESSRS R B AVES, Artist
- Sponsor Type
- public
- Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information
- Monument £237; iron railings £60; lead letters 10/- per dozen
Ceremonies
Unveiled
18th October 1919
COL E P A RIDDELL CMG, DSO
Dedicated
18 Oct 1919
Rev. W.W. London, Vicar of Wall, assisted by Mr. Hodgson (Wesleyan Superintendent Minister).
- Custodian
- Parish Council accepted responsibility at the unveiling ceremony in 1919
Components
- Cross
Height: C 6000MM
Width: C 1500MM
Depth: C 1500MM
Made from: Granite
Condition: Unknown
- HEXHAM COURANT by N/A 26/10/1919 Source: Media Library Published:N/A HEXHAM, NORTHUMBERLAND http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9273 Northumberland Record Office Parish Council Minutes Ref PC14/2, 6 In Silent Fortitude: In Memory of the Men of the North Tyne Valley who Fell in the Great War; Alan Isaac Grint; 2011; Ergo Press; ISBN 9780955751097 Hexham Weekly News 24/10/1919 reports unveiling-has a variation on one name: Pte. A. Maddison, N.F. (rather than R)
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