War Memorial - Service of Dedication c1947

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War Memorial - Service of Dedication c1947
Image kindly loaned by Keith Bullen of Orwell.

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

Second of three photographs. 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 (see Roll of Honour below).

Of further interest is the background in the photograph. The A14 road (A1198 as it now is) is just having curb stones laid for the first time and the old Esso garage can be seen top right. A closer view of the garage can be seen with the photograph of the Procession.

Please e-mail if you can put any names to the faces.

Roll of Honour

The following names are recorded on the
Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial:

1914-1918

Captain The Hon T.C.R.Agar-Robartes, Coldstream Guards (Wimpole)
Private E.G.Clarke, 7th Suffolk Regiment (Arrington)
Private H.Collin, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Arrington)
Private H.Ingrey, 7th Suffolk Regiment (Arrington)
Sergeant W.Ingrey, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment (Wimpole)
Private D.Matthews, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Private J.W.Neaves, 5th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (Wimpole)
Private A.H.Pell, 2nd Queens Royal West Surrey (Wimpole)
Corporal C.Pratt, 2nd Rifle Brigade (Wimpole)
Private A.J.Reynolds, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Arrington)
Private E.C.Skinner, 7th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Private F.Skinner, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Private H.Skinner, 7th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Private F.Smith, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment (Arrington)
Lance Corporal W.Wayman, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Acting Corporal G.Whetstone, 2nd Rifle Brigade (Wimpole)
Private H.Wilkins, 11th Suffolk Regiment (Wimpole)
Private F.G.Wisbey, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment (Arrington)

1939-1945

Leading Aircraftwoman F.E.Allison, W.A.A.F
Private W.R.Bullen, 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment
Private J.W.Law, 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment

[The WW1 servicemen are listed under the Parishes of Arrington or Wimpole as shown on the Cambridgeshire County War Memorial in Ely Cathedral.]

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