Combined War Memorial - Walpole St.Peter's Church, Church Road, Walpole St.Peter, Norfolk. PE14 7NS
Posted by: greysman
N 52° 43.692 E 000° 13.399
31U E 312507 N 5845652
A sandstone memorial standing at the southern end of the churchyard.
Waymark Code: WMXRJK
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/20/2018
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This memorial is in the form of a boxed cross with figures on a long octagonal tapering shaft and standing on an octagonal plinth with a four stepped base. The inscriptions are on the risers of the top two steps and the cross base.
The names and dedication round the cross base are from WWI, starting from the dedication panel,IN / MEMORIAM / 1914-1918, there are seven other panels carrying 22 names. Beneath this, on the topmost riser are the words "THINK / AND / THANK / AND / THINK / AND / THANK / AND", then below this on the second down step riser are 14 more names of the fallen from WWII together with the dates 1939 - 1945, and one name from the conflict in Northern Ireland, 1972. Some of the inscriptions are quite worn and the transcription may not be accurate.
The fallen from WWI remembered here are:-
Frank Holman Ernest Peckover William Coe Herbert Needham
George Potter Ernest Mace Arthur Bullen William Needham
William King William Hanslip Philip Peters Tom Burnham
Albert Maycraft
of Clenchwarton
Ernest Rawlings Benjamin Edwards Tom Crawford
Joseph Thompson David Bailey D.C.M.
Edward Claxton George Sandal John Peters
Morley Stimpson
The fallen from WWII are:-
Paul Nicholls Brendan Yeoman Douglas Clarke Ernest Nicholls
Geoffery Bunning Philip Garrod Ernest Licquorice Bernard Nicholls
Gordon Paynter George Wenn Gordon Townsend William Grapes
George Reeve John Hatton
..and the one soldier from the Northern Ireland conflict:-
Robert Mason