Over Kellet, Lancashire

Lovely little village. It has figured on several LDWA hikes. Frequently looked at the two artefacts which are astride the road. The memorial is very traditional. The inscriptions are beneath the pictures.  The cross in a way is far mor interesting. There seems to be a reference to a cross outside St Cuthbert's church on the internet too.

This is the insert from English Heritage:

SD 57 SW OVER KELLET KELLET ROAD

4/138 Village Cross, On Village Green
4, 10. 1967
GV II


Cross. Age uncertain, restored 1983. Sandstone. Square base of 2 steps
topped by a single square chamfered block with a socket which contains the
cross shaft. Lower section of shaft appears older than the head and upper
shaft, which are of 1893.


Listing NGR: SD5201670028

Looking from M6 motorway junction towards Kirkby Lonsdale

Looking down Capenwray road. The road to the right goes to Kirkby Lonsdale
The War Memorial is opposite

Hall Garth is in the background

The UKNIWM Ref is  3298

The war memorial. The broken column is a traditional symbol of a life cut short
On this side of the cross it looks like there are two names.
1939- 1945
?
? SEDGWICK

Not good enough - not sure why I did not get a close up.
The light was going but I have flash. Got to go back.

TO
THE MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO
FOUGHT AND FELL
IN THE GREAT WARS
1914  -  1918
______

LEST WE FORGET

J.  ALEXANDER
G. LEE BOOKER
F. W. BULLOUGH
T. EDWARDS
E. EDWARDS
A. J.  GRAHAM
T. HODGSON
J. E. ROBINSON
T. TOWNSON
J. WESTERN

Looking towards the M6. Milly in the background.

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Looking towards Kirkby Lonsdale

As above. Taken in early spring.
I was on the way to an LDWA event called "Spring into Old Hutton"

War Graves in the Church of St Anne cemetery

Another visit and further time in the graveyard revealed more servicemen's graves in the churchyard. I also include a couple of panoramas of the church yard.

Looking towards the south side of the church

Looking from the south door towards the lych gate

These graves are in the southern part of the graveyard - this is within the area of the panorama:

1000251 FLIGHT SERGEANT
C.HARRISON
AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
10TH APRIL 1943 AGE 28

67819 SAPPER
L.A. GILLETT
ROYAL ENGINEERS
15TH JUNE 1918 AGE 27

1051094 DRIVER
C. VENABLES
R.E.M.E.
22ND DECEMBER 1942 AGE 38

9871 PRIVATE
R.CAHILL
EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
31ST JULY 1917 AGE 29

These graves are in the northern part of the graveyard:

201819 Private Horace Smith
Manchester Regiment
15th February 1920
Age 22

2590439 Signalman
Robert Norman Sykes
Royal Signals
29th of March 1942
Age 31

1740682 Gunner
Ronald James Avison
66th Searchlight Regiment R.A.
(Gloucesters) T.A.
26th January 1942

There are other interesting memorials in the churchyard - another post.

Royal Scots Greys - Edinburgh

On the Edinburgh Castle side of West Princes Street, overlooking the gardens is the  Royal Scots Greys Memorial.   It commemorates the regiment's fallen since the Boer War. It is very imposing. There is an interesting history on the statue here, in particular an unfinished debate on who the model for the soldier  really was!  This is quite likely to be one of the most photographed memorials in Scotland. Certainly one of the best known. I am surprised that there is not a list of the fallen anywhere. I hope I have done a good transcription.

There is a record of the memorial on the IWM's UK Memorial Database, but it does not have a record of the other conflicts that this regiment has been involved in. The number is IWM WMA  REF: 53588

A link to the unveiling ceremony is here

The names of the fallen  on this Datastore blogpage.

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN 1906
IN MEMORY OF THE ROYAL SCOT GREYS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA
DURING THE BOER WAR 1899 TO 1902

TABLETS WERE ADDED AFTER THE THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 TO 1918
AND AFTER THE SECOND  WORLD WAR 1939 TO 1945

IN 1971 THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS AMALGAMATED WITH
THE 3RD CARABINERS TO FORM
THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS
(CARABINERS AND GREYS)

Looking upwards from the gardens. West Princes Street is to the left.

The Boer War Plaque

The plaque with a list of the fallen from the Great War
1914-1918
This is the first part

This is the second part of the list of the fallen from The Great War

The left hand side the World War 2 Plaque

The right hand side of the plaque

  

Korea, Northern Ireland and Iraq plaque.
The name of the sculptor  MR WILLIAM BIRNIE RHIND can be seen on the top left corner of this photo

St Cuthbert's Church Memorial

Just up the road from St Cuthbert's cross is a memorial in front of the church hall is a small cross dedicated to those who fell related to the church. For some reason it is quite insignificant. I have driven and cycled past quite a few times and not noticed it. I have added the dedication stones of the hall to this blogpage, they are dated in the early 1920's. The church hall has predated the memorial by only a few years. The names on this memorial are also on the memorial in Hastings place

UKNIWM REF: 42707

 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.
 1914 - 1918
 "FOR THEIR SAKES - I CONSECRATE MYSELF. 

H. W. ADAM
C.BELL
C.D. BROWN
B. BROTHERS
N.T.BRYCE-SMITH
W.BILSBOROUGH
E.BURROW
H.CASHMORE
R.CHALLONER
A.DAVIES
P.DAY
D. DUGDALE
R.EAVES
J.C.FAIR
R.FISHER

F.FOX
D.D.HAYES
R.HELM.
A.J.HEPBURN
C.B.HOLMES
W.HOLLAS
L.HOWARD
H.HOWARD
J.K.JACKSON
W.JAMES
R.JAMES
T.C.LEAVER
H.R.LEAVER
A.J. LEWIS
J.C.McLELLAN
R.MILLER

J.C.MEYRICK
D.S.MILLIGAN
E.H.MOULDEN
H.NICKSON
S.HEWSON
F.SNALAM
R.A.STRICKLAND
W.TOOTELL
G.O. THACKER
H.WANE
J. WARD
H.J.WILKINSON
E.C.WRIGLEY
H.G.DAWSON
J.DENTON

View from the front of the building. St Cuthbert's church is on the left.
Lytham and the "other" cross  is to the right.

THIS HALL
WAS DEDICATED BY
THE RIGHT REV E.A.KNOX D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER
OCTOBER 29th 1920
JOHN SINKER VICAR

J.F.GRUNDY
W.PHILIPSON
CHURCHWARDENS

THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
EDWARD WILLIAM MELLOR
ON OCTOBER 15th 1919
_________
THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH
GIVETH US THE VICTORY

St Cuthbert's church hall

St Cuthberts church