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    Memorial

    Birchington and Acol - WW1 and WW2

    Cross

    Source: Copyright W.J. Rowe

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    Current Location

    On the roadside, outside the churchyard., All Saints Church, Birchington Square, Birchington, Thanet, Kent, CT7 9AF, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TR 30241 69039

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    © WMR-1547

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    Type of Memorial
    Cross
    WMR Reference Number
    1547
    Description
    Latin stone cross, with a Tudor Rose on and the badge of Prince Wales one on each side of the cross. The cross is mounted on a base with four panels, upon three broad surrounding steps of different sizes. Next to cross is two stone plaques fixed to the wall for the Second World War (WMR Ref: 28652).
    Inscription
    Front face: THE POPULATION OF BIRCHINGTON/ AND ACOL/ AUGUST 1914 WAS 2522/ 474 MEN JOINED H.M. FORCES OF/ WHOM 69 GAVE THEIR LIVES/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ HAIL! AND FAREWELL/ ALL HONOUR GIVE/ TO THOSE WHO NOBLY/ STRIVING NOBLY FELL/ THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ OXENHAM/ WELL DONE FOR THEM/ AND FAIR ISLE, WELL/ FOR THEE/ WHILE THAT THY BOSOM/ BEARETH SONS LIKE THOSE/ THE LITTLE GEM/ SET IN THE SILVER SEA/ SHALL NEVER FEAR HER FOES/ ARNOLD Other faces: (Names) Left Tablet: 1939-1945/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HALLOWED MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM BIRCHINGTON AND ACOL/ WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ (Names) Right Tablet: (Names)/ THESE TABLETS WERE ERECTED BY/ THE MAYOR ALDERMEN AND BURGESSES/ OF THE BOROUGH OF MARGATE
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    70
    Died
    70
    Information shown
    Rank, initial, surname, regiment.
    Order of names
    Rank, surname.
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    33
    Information shown
    Rank, initial, surname, unit.
    Order of names
    Rank.

    Components

    Cross

    Height: 3600mm

    Width: 260mm

    Depth: 1800mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Plinth

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Steps

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Tablets

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    • Carter Postcard Collection
    • War Memorials Trust WM148 http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=518
    • https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/120983
    • Book kept at All Saints Church, record of patriotic war works carried out in the village during the 1914-1918 war.