Holt's Combined War Memorial, Market Square, Holt, Norfolk.
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greysman
N 52° 54.357 E 001° 05.427
31U E 371577 N 5863515
A large memorial in the centre of the Market Place.
Waymark Code: WMA8Y5
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/05/2010
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This war memorial is built of sandstone and was unveiled on Sunday, 29th.May, 1921 by the Bishop of Thetford. It replaced the Jubilee Memorial which was re-erected on Obelisk Plain.
It has a simple tapering, octagonal shaft surmonted by a elaborate celtic cross, there are four small shields on the shaft about half way up. The shaft is mounted on a square plinth of eight narrow and one wide steps. The names of the fallen from the Great War are incised into the top row of sandstone blocks just below the top coving. The fallen from WWII are incised into four blocks mounted into the fifth step.
The west face of the square shaft support bears the words:
THEIR
NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE
..whilst the east face carries the dates:
1914-1919
1939-1945
The names of the WWI victims, in order round the base from the west face to south, north then east are:
Alfred Anthony Charles W.Bray Ernest Cooper
Oliver Bennett Albert Caston Fred Cotts
Robert W.Beresford Alfred W.Caston Thomas H.Cotts
Thomas Boast Frederick W.Chestney Charles E.Dack
Horace Bullock Charles W.Clarke Ernest Dack
Albert V.Bray Albert Cockaday Sidney Dack
William R.Dix Frederick Grout Herbert Jenkinson
Joseph Dixon Ernest Guymer Richard Knights
George Flood Fred Herron John Knowles
James W.Graveling Reginald Horne Benjamin Lake
Edward Greengrass William Houchen Victor Lewis
Charlie P.Loades Frank Mears William R.Neal
Robert E.Loynes William Middleton William Neal
Joseph B.McMahon Lewis S.Murrell Robert E.Nichols
Walter Mann Wallace Murrell William D.Nichols
Victor Mayes Archer Neal William G.Pells
Herbert Pointer William Smith Albert Wakefield
Sidney Preston Vivian N.Smith Frank Waller
E.Bertie Riches Charles H.Steer Albert J.Waller
Horace Rudd James Starling Robert White
Harry Sharpin Geoffrey Watson William Betts
The WWII fallen, again in order west, south, east and north are:
John W.Arnott
Patrick Arnott
Gerald A.Attew
Duncan Barrett
Robert J.Bird
Michael Bond
Ronald Bond
Roy Bunkell
John Cuthbert
John W.Dew
Ronald Hall
George G.Hamilton
Geoffrey G.Hayden
John R.Hobart
Stanley Holman
Oswald Kerridge
Clifford Knights
Hedley Loades
Percy H.Loynes
Frederick Partridge
Robert J Smith
Basil Spendlow
Wilfred G.Spendlow
Kenneth Swann
Cyril Taberham
Margaret I.Thompson
John H.Vann
Parick Watthes
Leonard Williamson
Kenneth Winn
Sidney Woodhouse
Bert E.Woodrow
The memorial forms a traffic island which, at the Christmas season, also is home to the large town Christmas Tree.