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War Memorial - Service of Dedication c1947
Image kindly loaned by Denis Tokley

Image: c1947, community event, quality of the available image (large print) is rated as 'excellent'. Probably a press photograph.
Location: The A14 road (now A1198) taken from the Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial, looking north-west.

First of three photographs. The image shows the procession from Arrington to a Remembrance Day dedication service held at the Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial shortly after the Second World War.

The Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial is located on the northern corner of the original intersection between Ermine Street (now the A1198) and Cambridge Road (now the A603). The corner was the significant point on the road midway between the villages of Arrington and Wimpole.

The memorial was erected and dedicated in the early 1920's to the memory of the eighteen men who died during the Great War. Three further names were added in c1947, dedicated to those who gave their lives during the Second World War.

In the above photograph (procession left to right) we have a group of girl cadets, then two members of the Women's Voluntary Service (?), followed by local members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. Please e-mail if you can put any names to the faces.

The old Esso garage can be seen in the background (above and below). The garage and barn are long gone and have been replaced by agricultural buildings.