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War
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The War Memorial Cross Outside St. Mary's Church, Molland (Devon)
Photo : Neil Webster of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial Cross Outside St. Mary's Church, Molland (Devon) is set on a rectangular foundation base surmounted by a rectangular sectioned tapering plinth with rounded top edges and a rectangular sectioned shaft with integrated Latin cross. Pinned-lead dedicationn and commemorations on the front face of plinth.
5 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First Word war, and 1 in the Second world war.
1 soldier who served in the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.
Private Albert Henry Bowden. 42264. 2nd Battalion the
Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 164308 R F A. Nephew of A. J. Bowden, of 21,
Princes Rd., East Ellacombe, Torquay, Devon. Died at home 1 May 1918.
Born Torquay (Devon), Enlisted South Molton, Resided Molland.
Buried BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY.
The names of the fallen on the War Memorial Cross Outside St. Mary's Church,
Molland (Devon)
Photo : Neil Webster of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
St.
Mary's Church, Molland (Devon) - the War Memorial Cross can be seen just outside
the main entrance porch
Photo : © Copyright Roger
Cornfoot and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence.
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