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29.3.1986

CRANBORNE

Stone cross on plinth on Green by roadside in village, on front face of plinth.

1939 - 1945

Private
Private
C.P.O.
Sergt. Pilot
Vice Admiral
Aircraftsman
Flight Sergt.
Aircraftsman

David J. Adams
William Bailey
Percy A. Cabell
Richard H.V. Cecil
Alfred E. Evans
Barry Hardy
Robert D. Osborne
Sidney C. Preece

East Lancs. Regt.
R.A.S.C.
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force

Glazed frame with hand written scroll/paper on a pillar in St Mary & St Bartholomews Church.

In 2015 there was a new scroll, probably done around 1987.

(1986 2015)

Roll of Honour

1914 - 1918

(Now WW1 names)






1939 - 1945

David Adams
William Bailey
Percy Cabell
Richard Cecil
Alfred Evans
Barry Hardy
Robert Osborne
Sidney Preece

Grant them O Lord eternal rest





Roll of Honour

1914 - 1918

(Now WW1 names)






1939 - 1945
David Adams
William Bailey
Percy Cabell
Richard Cecil
Alfred Evans
Barry Hardy
Robert Osborne
Sydney Preece

At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
we will remember them.

Presented in Loving Memory of
Arthur Percival Cabell
1927-1987

Wooden tablet on wall in St Mary * St Bartholomew's Church.

To rercord with pride and gratitude their association with this church and village this tablet is placed here by the officers and men of the second searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery which served in & around Cranborne from July 1940 until August 1944 & in proud memory of Brigadier Thurgar Rolland Anderson MC who raised the Regiment on 24th May 1939 and commanded it at home and overseas until June 1941. He died on active service on 7th Auguast 1943