Skip to main content

    War MemorialsRegister

    • Home
    • Search Memorials
    • Search Names
    • Help
    Imperial War Museums LogoImperial War Museums home
    • About
      • About us
      • Submit a photograph
      • Volunteering
    • Legal
      • Accessibility Statement
      • Cookies
      • Copyright
      • Privacy
      • Terms of use

    © Imperial War Museums 2026

    Memorial

    Rainham - WW1

    Julie Brewer 17 11 2013

    Source: Copyright Julie Brewer 17 11 2013

    1/7

    Current Location

    Near to St Margaret's Church., High Street, Rainham, Rochester Upon Medway, Kent, ME8 7JH, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TQ 81689 65918

    View location on Google Maps

    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • F W Goldsmith

    • A J Goodwin

    • W G Lockyer

    • Arthur Millen

    • A C Kitney

    • Harry Willm Nutt

    • Harold Fifield Greenhalgh

    • Walter Blackman

    • Bridges Baker

    • Albert Edward Wallis

    • Percy Springate

    • John Albert Geo Ashby

    • George Botting

    • Cecil Henry Bowra

    • Horace John Champion

    Contribute to the War Memorials Register

    Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.

    Contribute now

    This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.

    © WMR-2253

    To share information or photographs, contact us.

    Type of Memorial
    Cross
    WMR Reference Number
    2253
    Description
    A Celtic style cross with patterned relief on both the cross head and shaft. The cross surmounts a tapering plinth which bears the names. The whole is set onto a stepped base.
    Inscription
    THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE/ INHABITANTS OF RAINHAM IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE GALLANT MEN FROM/ THIS PARISH WHO IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1919 GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ SONS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP/ "HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY"/ ISAIAH XXV.8/ (Names)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    99
    Died
    99
    Information shown
    Surname, forename.
    Order of names
    Surname.
    Maker(s)
    • Messrs Millen & Chrisfield, Builder

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    12th December 1920

    Major General H F Thuiller CB CMG

    Custodian
    Local Authority

    Components

    Cross

    Height: 5800mm


    Made from: Granite - Cornish


    Condition: Good


    • Rainham Publications - photocopy of Order of servicefor the unveiling and dedication of the memorial cross
    • Extracts 'Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham Observer 1919 -11Jan, 25 Jan, 13 Dec ,1920-23 Oct, 27 Nov, 3 Dec East Kent Gazette 1919 -11 Jan, 25 Jan, 1 Nov
  • Microfilm Gillingham Public Library/ Sittingbourne Public Library/ Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News