Memorial

Whittlesey

Whittlesey Town

Source: Copyright Mike Barker

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Current Location

Junction of Queen Street and the Market Place Market Square, 6, Queen Street, Whittlesey, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1AY, England

TL 27021 97070

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Type of Memorial: Allegory (eg: Victory)
WMR Reference Number: 3483
Description: St George in traditional pose with foot resting on a dragon and sword in hand mounted on a rectangular tappered plinth simbolically facing the way the fallen departed in Station Road.. The whole is mounted on a three stepped base enclosed by a wrought iron fence. The four faces or the plinth bear bronze escutcheons framed with a laurel wreath and bearing the names above a ribbon. A rectangular broze laurel leaf framed plaque commemorating the fallen of the Second World War is mounted at the base of the plinth Standards and regimental badges of the fallen are carved on three out of four faces of the plinth
Inscription: LEST WE FORGET/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ 1951/ (NAME)/ KILLED IN KOREA

Maker(s): MR T W FORD OF WHITTESLEY, Manufacturer
Sponsor Type: public
Maintenance History: 2001: MEMORIAL DUE TO BE CLEANED DATE UNKNOWN: SOME EROSION TO STONE WORK AND BRONZE STAINING. refurbished by WMT 2003