Appledore War Memorial

First and Second World War memorial, erected in 1923, with the names of the Fallen of the Second World War added circa 1949.

MATERIALS: granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a plain obelisk on a square plinth with a four-tier stepped base. The names of the Fallen are inscribed around the plinth (First World War) and the first tier of the base (Second World War). The front face (east elevation) bears the inscription: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ APPLEDORE HEROES/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918’. Below this are the names of those who died in service in the Royal Navy between 1914-1918 and on the base below are the names of those lost in the Royal Navy between 1939-1945. The north face bears the names of those who fell while serving in the Army during both World Wars. The west face bears the names of those in the Mercantile Marine (First World War) and Merchant Navy (Second World War). The south face bears the name of those in the Mercantile Marine and Army (First World War), and below the names of those in the Royal Air Force (Second World War).

The memorial is surrounded by a set of modern metal posts linked by chains; these are excluded from the listing.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 8 December 2016.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 May 2021 to reformat the text to current standards.