Memorial Cross - Knipton, Leicestershire
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N 52° 52.388 W 000° 46.536
30U E 649707 N 5860475
Combined WWI / WWII memorial cross on the Village green, Knipton.
Waymark Code: WM10C9E
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/12/2019
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Combined WWI / WWII memorial cross on the Village green, Knipton.
The memorial consists of a raised square platform with a three-stepped square base surmounted by a square sectioned plinth, a round sectioned column, capital, and a decorative wheel cross at the top. An incised slate tablet is attached to each side face of plinth for the casualties in WWI. The WWII tablet is laid flat on the platform base. The whole memorial is bordered by paving stones, which are surrounded by a small garden area and lawn, further enclosed on three sides with a wooden fence.
Inscription -
6 o'clock plinth face :
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
KNIPTON WHO MADE THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
IN THANKFULNESS TO GOD FOR THE
VICTORY. THEIR VALOUR HELPED TO
WIN AND ALSO TO COMMEMORATE
THE PATRIOTISM OF ALL FROM THIS
VILLAGE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR
COUNTRY. THIS MONUMENT IS SET
UP BY THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
AND ARE PROUD OF THEM.
Other plinth faces :
(13 NAMES)
Flat tablet on platform base :
+
1939 - 1945
(4 NAMES)
Name |
Rank |
Unit |
Batt |
Died |
Butler - Noel |
Lieutenant |
Irish Guards |
1 |
15/09/1916 |
Chambers - Thomas |
Private |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
1 |
04/10/1917 |
Coy - Arthur |
Lance Corporal |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
8 |
21/01/1916 |
Gibson - Albert |
Lance Corporal |
Yorkshire Regiment |
10 |
15/04/1917 |
Goodband - Christopher |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) |
9 |
28/09/1915 |
Goodband - David John |
Private |
Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) |
8 |
23/11/1916 |
Manners - Robert William Orlando |
Lieutenant Colonel |
Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
|
11/09/1917 |
Marriott - Walter |
Private |
Canadian Infantry |
46 |
23/10/1917 |
Newton - William James |
Private |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
2 |
01/07/1916 |
Nicolls - Richard Jefferys |
Captain |
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) |
A Coy; 11 |
01/10/1916 |
Robinson - Page |
Private |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
B Coy; 8 |
26/09/1915 |
Scott - Francis William |
Sapper |
Canadian Engineers |
1 Field Coy |
04/05/1915 |
Winters - George |
Private |
Leicestershire Regiment |
8 |
21/11/1918 |
Marriott - Cecil |
Guardsman |
Grenadier Guards |
3 |
02/06/1940 |
Marriott - Richard |
Sergeant (flight Engineer) |
Royal Air Force |
463 (raaf) Sqdn |
14/02/1945 |
Ryder - John Thomas |
Sergeant |
Grenadier Guards |
3 |
25/07/1940 |
Tweed - George William |
Lieutenant |
Royal Navy - Hm Submarine Rainbow |
|
19/10/1940 |