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War
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The Lych Gate Outside the Wetheral Parish Church - 1
Photo : Stuart Nicholson of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial for Wetheral is the Lych gate at the entrance to Holy Trinity and St Constantine Church, Wetheral.
The Lych Gate has a superstructure of oak on a base and roof of Lazonby sandstone. The Lych Gate constitutes the Wetheral War Memorial with the names of the fallen carved within.
14 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, and 14 in the Second World War. An individual memorial on the south side is to a soldier killed in a subsequent conflict. The names and dedication plaques are gilded on oak, on a dark crimson background. There is an accompanying book of Rememberance, which is inside the church, which is read on Rememberance Day by the Vicar. It records the same names as on the Lych Gate for the First and Second World Wars.
1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Private Robert Watson. 29568. 1st/4th Battalion East
Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 46464 the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 27 May 1918.
Born Newcastle-on-Tyne, Enlisted Newcastle-on-Tyne, Resided Wetheral (Cumberland).
Buried CRAONNELLE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Robert
Watson's Name Commemorated in the Wetheral Lych Gate
Photo : Stuart Nicholson of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
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Lych Gate Outside the Wetheral Parish Church - 2
Photo : Google Earth
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