To the glory of God and in memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives for their country in the Great War, AD 1914 - 1918. Their name liveth for evermore.
Cross on the west facade of the church.
WC1, Cromer Street
Strange that there are 2 memorials for WW1 and none for WW2, although that might be inside, of course.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Holy Cross Church, WW1 Cross
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Holy Cross Church, WW1 Cross
Erected in about 2005, the memorial (now almost covered by foliage) can be seen on the right centre of our photograph. Because of the ram...
We can find no source for the quotation "May we ...", though it is also used on memorials in Dorset and Falkirk. There are two columns o...
The statue represents a soldier. To the left, in the cream marble, is a carved relief of an anchor with ropes, representing the navy and ...
28 victims are buried here; another 6-11 victims (numbers differ between sources) were buried elsewhere. Of these 28, 12 were children (b...
To the left of the monument is a sculpture of a wounded soldier and to the right, a woman clutching a child and variously identified as h...
Brought to our attention by Ed Fordham's blog, which suggests that Friese-Greene's studios were on this site. Inside the foyer of the Tr...
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