War Memorial, Thelwall, Cheshire.

War Memorial, Thelwall, Cheshire.

Location
Bell Lane and Lymm Road, Thelwall, Cheshire.

Description
A modern stone cross. Engraved on the body and base are:
- a quotation (in original language) from an ancient document,
- the names of those who lost their lives in the two world wars,
- a translation of the above quotation, it tells of events occuring during the reign of Edward the Elder (870 - 924).

Inscription

HER ON THYSUM GEARE
FOR EADWEARD CYNING
MID FIERDE ON UFAN
HAERFEST TO THELWAELE
& HET GEWYRCAN THA
BURG & GESETTAN &
GEMANNIAN & HET OTHRE
FIERD EAC OF MIERCNA
THEODE THA HWILE THE
HE THAER SAET GEFARAN
MAMECEASTER ON
NORTHHYMRUM & HIE
GEBETAN & GEMANNIAN
DCCCCXXIII

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IN REMEMBRANCE
Roland BROOKE
Walter Henry DENSHAM
James HANKINSON
Robert HANKINSON
Legh HOLDEN
Francis Edward Dale NICHOLSON
James RICHARDS
Samuel SHAW
William Henry TUNSTALL
Richard Barber WHITLOW
1914 - 1918

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1939 - 1945
Thomas Jefferson KENNEDY     Reginald Aubrey RENDEL
Jack Kenneth SMALLSHAW     Robert WARHAM
William WOODCOCK

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DCCCCXXIII
IN THIS YEAR WENT KING EDWARD WITH A FORCE
AFTER HARVEST TO THELWALL AND BADE BUILD THE
CITY AND OCCUPY AND MAN IT.
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE           C.C.C. LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE

War Memorial, Thelwall, Cheshire.

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