Dallington War Memorial

The memorial takes the form of an elaborate Weldon stone cross, c6m high, standing in the south-east corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Mary (Grade II*-listed). A three-stepped base consisting of two octagonal steps and a square step are surmounted by a square plinth with angle buttresses. Rising from the plinth is a square-based pillar transposing into an octagonal sectioned tapering shaft with integral cross with foliate ends; around the head is a laurel wreath.

Each face of the plinth has a recessed gothic panel. That to the front carries the inscription: 'THOSE WHOM THIS/ CROSS COMMEMORATES/ HEARD THE CALL OF/ GOD, KING & COUNTRY./ THEY LEFT ALL THAT/ WAS DEAR TO THEM./ THEY ENDURED HARDNESS,/ FACED DANGER, AND PASSED/ OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN/ BY THE PATH OF DUTY/ AND SELF-SACRIFICE./ THEY GAVE THEIR OWN/ LIVES THAT OTHERS/ MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM./ LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER/ SEE TO IT THAT THEIR/ NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN'. The names of those who died appear in two side panels.

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, 27 February 2018.