War Memorial

RUYTON XI TOWNS

1574/0/10011 BROWNHILL STREET 15-DEC-05 War Memorial

II War Memorial. 1920. Stanley Griffiths. Sandstone. Constructed in the form of a cave within a red sandstone cliff. At the back of the cave is a carved stone cross. To either side is a stone bench. Above the bench on the left is a rectangular stone plaque, with the county and borough coat of arms, commemorating those killed in The Great War. The inscription reads 1914-19 The Great War in memory of' and then lists 17 names. Beneath the list the inscription readsWe will remember them/This present life is not the end/Also in honour of the 130 other men who served from Ruyton-XI-Towns'. Beneath this plaque is a smaller stone plaque commemorating 5 men who were killed in WWII. Above the cave entrance is carved the date 1914 - 1919'. Further down on the left hand side in a slight recessed rectangle is the date1939' and to the right is 1945' in the same format. HISTORY The monument was unveiled in October 1920 by General Kenyon, with buglers of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry surrounding the Last Post. SOURCES Boorman, Derek (1988)At the Going Down of the Sun'. York.

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