Skip to main content

    War MemorialsRegister

    • Home
    • Search Memorials
    • Search Names
    • Help
    Imperial War Museums LogoImperial War Museums home
    • About
      • About us
      • Submit a photograph
      • Volunteering
    • Legal
      • Accessibility Statement
      • Cookies
      • Copyright
      • Privacy
      • Terms of use

    © Imperial War Museums 2026

    Memorial

    Bacton

    Inscription on base of 6 O'Clock side

    Source: Copyright Doug Ireland

    1/5

    Current Location

    St. Marys Churchyard, Church Road, Bacton, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, IP14 4LL, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TM 05314 67198

    Denomination

    Church of England

    View location on Google Maps

    Names listed on this memorial

    Contribute to the War Memorials Register

    Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.

    Contribute now

    This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.

    © WMR-4679

    To share information or photographs, contact us.

    Type of Memorial
    Cross
    WMR Reference Number
    4679
    Description
    A blind wheel cross on a tapering shaft, upon a tapered. square plinth, set on a two-stepped, rough-hewn square base. The wheel of the cross is decorated with a wreath, carved in relief.
    Inscription
    Face 1: Cross head: THEIR/ NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE./ Face 1 shaft: 1939-1945 (Names)/ Face 1 plinth: IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF BACTON/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ HONOUR TO THE IMMORTAL DEAD/ Face 2 plinth: (Names)/ Face 4 plinth: (Names)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    19
    Died
    19
    Information shown
    forename, surname
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    8
    Died
    8
    Information shown
    forname, surname
    Maker(s)
    • Hanchets, Builder

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    24th October 1920

    Captain Owen Clarke OBE

    Dedicated

    24th October 1920

    Reverend J Vallalley, Rector of Bacton

    Custodian
    PCC

    Components

    Memorial

    Height: 1981.2 mm


    Made from: Granite - Aberdeen


    Condition: Good


    Historic England

    Grade: II

    List Entry: 1430522

    https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430522 (accessed 12/05/2026)

    Report a Concern

    War Memorials Trust Reference Number
    118018

    To report a concern about the condition of this memorial, visit War Memorial Trust.

    Help update these details if the condition is wrongWar Memorials Register Logo
    • WM1998 http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=281
    • Account of unveiling Bury and Norwich Post , 29 October 1920