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Firsby

Firsby war memorial is a fifteenth century cross that remodelled in 1921 as the war memorial. It is made of limestone ashlar. Two square steps leadg up to a rectangular plinth with chamfered corners and broached stops. A tapering rectangular shaft stands atop; the lower half fifteenth century and the remainder including the crosshead was added. The memorial is located in the graveyard of Saint Andrew's Church Firsby 5m.

In 2018, War Memorials Trust Grants Scheme supported by the First World War Memorials Programme offered a grant of £700 towards cleaning the memorial using natural bristle brushes and low-pressure water washing, by hand, as dirt and biological growth had obscured the inscription. Work was also carried out to the incised lettering but this was not funded by the Trust.

The inscription on the memorial is inscribed on all four sides of the plinth and reads:

To the glory of God
and in loving and grateful
memory of the men of this
parish who laid down their lives
in the great European war
1914 1918 

This memorial was dedicated
on Sept 18th 1921
St Luke 14 v 10 Friend go up higher
C A King. Rector.
T Trowsdale A Wood Churchwardens.

The following also served
and have died since the Armistice
F Chapman R. E.
G Clark R.A.S.C.

Responded to their country's call
Good men and true they gave their all
Killed in action 

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM3447
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 43083

War Memorials Online: WMO/141891

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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