Memorial Cross - A4135 - Lower Cam, Gloucestershire
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A memorial cross topped by a carved wooden Christ the King on the A4135, 'Tesco roundabout', Lower Cam.
Waymark Code: WMY4NH
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/21/2018
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A memorial cross topped by a carved wooden Christ the King on the A4135, 'Tesco roundabout', Lower Cam.
"The Lower Cam war memorial was organised mainly by St. Bartholomew's Church, at the same time as the Parish Council was planning the village's main memorial. It was originally located in front of the church before being moved in 2011 to its present location next to the Tesco roundabout. Sadly, the memorial hasn't been maintained and much of the writing on it is now difficult or impossible to read. The names that can be read on it match the ones on the Hopton Road memorial.
I think, although I cannot be sure, that in the transportation of the memorial, it may have been put back together the wrong way round. The dedication to all the First World War soldiers, usually on the front of a memorial, is facing the hedge but the crucifix is facing the opposite way, looking towards the roundabout. This is the side which says '1939-1945' at the top and a list of names below, which would have been added twenty years after the memorial was first unveiled. I have done my best to transcribe the side facing the hedge (pictured above, right):
To the Glory of God
And in the Thankful
Memory of the Men
Of This Parish who
Gave their Lives in
The Great War of
1914 - 1918
Leonard Hill
Frank J. Coopey
Frederick Reeves
Gilbert Lydiard
Edgar Keep"SOURCE - (
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