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SHIPTON BELLINGER
Stone cross set back into recess in St Peter's Churchyard boundry.
Inscription on front three faces of octagonal plinth holding cross.
(Left side face.) Francis G. Bratchell Cecil Waite Charles Windlass Benjamin Gale John Harvey Norman Collins George Short William Waite
(Centre face.) To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of the men of this village who laid down their lives for the Empire in the Great War 1914 - 1918
(Right side face.) Walter Hale Cecil E. Horne Ernest Collins Ernest Bartholomew Edgar Inman Sidney Johnson Thomas Spencer
Inscriptions on three faces of step under above plinth.
(Left) Noble in life
(Centre) Faithful in duty
(Right) Glorious in death