Memorial
Somersham Pillar 1939-1945
Somersham_39-45
Source: Copyright Graham Thorpe
1/1
Current Location
High Street, Somersham, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3EE, England
OS Grid Reference
TL 36117 77929
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.
This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.
© WMR-8384
To share information or photographs, contact us.
- Type of Memorial
- Pillar / Column
- WMR Reference Number
- 8384
- Description
- Stone slab with shouldered corners on rectangular plinth. The slab has a sword of sacrifice in gold on a green wreath. The whole stands on a shallow base set in a gravelled square area surrounded by a kerb.
- Inscription
- IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO PAID THE/ SUPREME SACRIFICE/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING,/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 13
- Died
- 13
- Information shown
- Surname, forename
- Order of names
- Alphabetically by surname