Somersham War Memorial

Second World War memorial, erected in 1957.

MATERIALS: pale grey granite.

PLAN: the memorial is in the form of a tall rectangular slab with shouldered corners. It bears the sword of sacrifice in gold against a green circular wreath and underneath the inscription ‘IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE 1939-1945’, followed by the names of the thirteen fallen. The slab rests upon a rectangular plinth inscribed with ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’. The plinth rests on a shallow base set in a gravelled square area surrounded by a kerb.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 13 January 2017.