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ABBOTS LEIGH

Stone cross in Holy Trinity Churchyard, names on bronze plaques on faces of first plinth.

Bronze plaque on front face of plinth.

The restoration
of this cross
was carried out
by the parishioners
of Abbots Leigh
in thankfulness to
Almighty God for
victory
and in honoured
memory of their sons
who fell
in the Great War
1914-1918.
"Their name liveth for evermore."

Bronze plaque on right side face of plinth.

A/Cpl.F.Chamberlain
Glos.Regt.
Died, 28-7-19

Pte.W.C.Gabbitass
Worcs.Regt.
Salonica, 25-4-17

L/Cpl.J.W.Gittings
Herts.Regt.
Flanders, 19-7-16

Lieut.A.Hadden,M.C.
53rd.Sikhs
Mesopotamia, 8-3-16

Bronze plaque on back face of plinth.

Lieut.F.J.Hadden
R.A.S.C.
Died, Egypt, 5-5-16

Cpl.A.E.Rowles
Royal West Kent Regt
France, 4-10-16

Pte.A.J.Wheare,M.M.
Machine Gun Corps
France, 23-3-18

Pte.J.Welch
Somerset L.I.
France, 23-4-17

Bronze plaque on left side face of plinth.

Sergt.G.White
Glos.Regt.
Salonica, 26-2-17

Sergt.T.White
Glos.Regt.
Salonica, 30-9-16

Sergt.R.J.Wiltshire
Glos.Regt.
Flanders, 21-4-18

Pte.A.Wiltshire
Glos.Regt.
France, 28-3-18

Rfn G.Young
London Regt.
France, 9-9-16

the following two are in the Somerset Book of Remembrance, but are not listed on the memorial

Captain Geoffrey Lane Mahratta Lith Infantry
Private Ernest Stephen Wheare Somerset Light Infantry