Combined War Memorial, Great Longstone, Derbyshire.
Posted by: greysman
N 53° 14.570 W 001° 42.181
30U E 586549 N 5900068
A combined war memorial on the village green of this small rural Derbyshire village.
Waymark Code: WMCCZ2
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/23/2011
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This memorial, in local stone, is reminiscent of a truncated square pillar. It is coved at the top and mounted on a pedestal which has inscriptions and mottos on it. The whole is mounted on a square base and surrounded by eight small pillars linked by chains.
There are two dedication panels, to north - the main one, and south - a supplementary one, and two panels with names incised on them. The WWI names are at the top of the panels, seven on the east panel and six on that to the west. The space under the WWI names has been used to append the names of those fallen in WWII, two to the east and three to the west.
The main dedication is:
Erected
in Honoured
Memory of
the Men of
GREAT
LONGSTONE
who gave their
All in the
GREAT WAR
1914 -- 1919
and the supplementary wording is:
Greater love
hath no man
than this.
that a man lay
down his life
for his Friends
the wording round the base pedestal is:
Their name liveth for evermore, on the east,
LIBERTY and OUR GLORIOUS DEAD - under the main inscription,
Faithful unto death, on the west.
The names on the east are:
Hubert B.Dixon
Herbert Elliott
George Furniss
James Hewitt
Stanley Jeffcoat
Arthur Morton
Fred Morton
1939-1945
William E.Hamilton
Richard H.Hurst
and on the west:
Harold Robinson
Robert Robinson
Fred Cowen Slack
Frank Suter
Arthur Ward
John Ward
1939-1945
Robert S C Plowright
James R Timm
John Waring