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Combined WWI / WWII memorial cross at St Michael's church, Hernhill.

"Hernhill War Memorial was unveiled on Sunday 4 December 1921, by Brigadier-General Pitt of Pett Place, Charing. It was dedicated by the Archdeacon of Canterbury, the Venerable J. White-Thompson.

The memorial takes the form of a large and massive cross of Cornish granite, which has been provided by public subscription and carried out under the supervision of Mr. J. Bruce, late of Minters. Millen and Chrisfield. It stands near the edge of the churchyard facing the village green, and as the churchyard stands above the surround­ing level, a breach has been made and steps constructed forming an approach to the memorial, with entrance gates.

On the front face of the base of the cross is the inscription:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOUR OF THE BRAVE MEN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WARS
1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945

Do you who dwell midst English pastures green,
Remember them and think what might have been.


On the two side panels are engraved the names of the fallen, thirty in all - a lengthy 'list for a parish, with a population (according to the last census figures available) of less than nine hundred. The names are as follows:

WWI -
Charles E. Arnold,
Percy W. Arnold,
John Brown,
Frederick Brown,
Frank Bassant,
Lawrence P. Clamp,
John G. Clinch,
J. Harold Clinch,
E. Stanley Coachworth,
Alfred Graham,
Herbert W. Foreman,
Bertram F. Hadlow,
William E. Harvey,
Wilfred H.W. Haslam,
Frederick S. Horn,
Aubrey Jessup,
Ernest Manuel,
Leonard Parsons,
Reginald Pay,
George Philpott,
George Pout,
John Pout,
Sidney A. Smith D.C.M.,
Percy R.Smith,
William Stewart,
John Twrell,
George Twrell,
Sydney A. Watts,
Victor Wraight,
Alec L. Wraight

WWII -
Douglas Brown
Albert Butcher
Geoffrey Cranfield
Bruce Edmonds
James James
Arthur Wanstall"

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Private or Public Monument?: Private Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Not known Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Website for this Monument: [Web Link] Physical Address of Monument: St Michael Hernhill ME139JR , Kent England ME139JR Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed

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