Lt Wilfred Watts War Memorial, Blandford Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 2016. War memorial. 5 related planning applications.
Lt Wilfred Watts War Memorial, Blandford Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- dim-obsidian-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lt Wilfred Watts War Memorial, Blandford Cemetery, Salisbury Road, Blandford Forum, DT11 7LR
- OS grid reference
- ST 892 074
- Coordinates
- 50.86632, -2.15399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lt Wilfred Watts War Memorial, located in Blandford Cemetery, is made of white marble. This memorial features a stone of remembrance topped with an arched pediment. It includes a leaded inscription in Gothic script that reads: "IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF / LIEUT. WILFRED (VAL) WATTS, / PILOT / ROYAL FLYING CORPS. / IN HIS 23RD YEAR. / SECOND SON OF / C. E. J. & JESSIE WATTS / OF BLANDFORD. / KILLED ON JAN. 17TH 1916, / WHILST FLYING OVER THE GERMAN LINES / AT DADIZEELEM AND INTERRED AT LEDEGHEM, / BELGIUM. / WAS AWARDED THE CROIX DE GUERRE / WITH PALM AT THE BATTLE OF LOOS, / SEPT 25TH 1915. / FOR KING AND COUNTRY."
Above the inscription, there is a carved relief of a plane with Union Jacks on the underside of each wing. To the left is a carved representation of the Croix de Guerre, while the Royal Flying Corps badge is on the right, accompanied by a leaded motto underneath. The memorial is set on a single stepped stone base.
Local climate
Lt Wilfred Watts War Memorial, Blandford Cemetery receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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