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Exning
Town or City: Exning
County: Suffolk
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM2525
Value of grant: £175.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Relocation
Grant scheme: Small Grants Scheme
Year: 1998
UKNIWM reference number: 4542
Exing war memorial cross is constructed of Cornish granite. It records the fallen of both World Wars.
In 1998 War Memorials Trust awarded £175 to a £30,000 scheme to improve safety at the accident prone junction which involved the re-siting of the war memorial which had been damaged by traffic on a number of occassions. After standing for 80 years at the now busy crossroads it moved to a new position about 12 feet away, where it became the centrepiece of a new memorial garden.
The memorial was unveiled in 1921 in front of over 5,000 people by Lt-Colonel W. E. Guiness with the dedication led by Canon W. T. Farmiloe.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
Our Glorious Dead
1914 - 1918 & 1939 - 1945
George Ashby
Carol Baird
Frank Benstead
William Bond
Walter Bradley
Frederick Brown
Norris Brown
Thomas Brown
Sidney Butcher
Oliver Carter
Alfred Chapman
Harry Clark
Alfred Cobbold
Arthur Collen
John Collen
Arthur Cornwell
George Davay
Walter Davey
Jack Dennis
Edward Dicker
Arthur Drake
George Edwards
Herbert Edwards
Henry Everett
Vicars Everett
Robert Fallick
Allan Farr
Albert Fenn
Leonard Fenn
Frederick Fenn
Bertram Finch
William Foreman
Frederick Fuller
William Goodchild
Charles Heffer
Ernest Hobbs
Arthur Howe
Abel Howlett
William Howlett
Thomas Howlett
Robert Jaggard
Reuben Jeffery
Dermod Jewitt
William Jones
George Judd
Alec King
George King
Vernon Laws
George Layton
Mark Ling
Maurice Lloyd
Arthur Neale
Albert Norman
Harry Osborn
Ernest Parr
William Pattle
Kenneth Perry
Harry Pitches
William Pitches
Frederick Prewer
George Rosbrook
Frederick Rose
William Scott
Charles Setchell
Ernest Stevens
William Snowden
Jack Talbot
Harold Thurlbourn
Albert Tilly
Joseph Trowsdale
James Turner
Lawrence Vaile
Herbert Vernham
Oliver Wiseman
Bertram Woods
William Woods
Eric Woollard
Harry Beeton
Lawrence Earith
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM2525
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 4542
Formerly OWM34
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
