Memorial

Bicker

Bicker war memorial in context

Source: Copyright Colin Murray

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Current Location

Junction of Monument Road, Church Road and School Lane, Monument Road, Bicker, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE20 3DJ, England

TF 22589 37691

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 62022
Description: A stone monument in the style of a traditional Lincolnshire wayside cross, with a square, three-stepped base. Replacement polished granite tablets are fixed on all four sides to the uppermost block. Standing on this block is an octagonal plinth with shield devices carved in relief on the four corners. Running around the memorial clockwise from the eastern corner, the shields are carved with the inscriptions Pro Patria, Pro Rege, Pro Deo and Pro Recto. Following the Second World War an additional inscription was added to the memorial with a further four names. Inscription and names are on faces 1, 2 and 3 of the granite tablets, incised and picked out in black. The memorial is located within a triangular wrought-iron fenced island.
Inscription: Face 1: IN GREATFUL (sic) REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE OF BICKER WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ AUG. 1914 - NOV. 1918/ (Names) Face 2: 1939 - 45/ (Names) Face 3: DIED AT HOME/ FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR/ (Names)