Town / Village War Memorials

The cross with sword is a "Cross of Sacrifice", it was designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission and is erected if there are more than 40 of their war graves in a cemetery. Most have the same wording on them.

WILLIAMARNOLD wrote:

These are in the Black Country "village" of Bilston in 1832 it lost 742 residents to cholera and in 1847 another 730 were killed by Cholera which rather overshadows the Villages war dead. .

It is interesting to see how many towns and villages have a memorial to a local doctor who fought to contain a 19th Century Cholera epidemic and often died himself. There was one here until the council knocked it down to make a couple of car parking spaces and either dumped the stone in the rock or used as hardcore. Philistines!

Bilston opened a Cholera School in 1833 because there were 450 orphans under twelve years old. There is a commemorative medal that was presented to each child.

WILLIAMARNOLD wrote:

This memorial is contemporary with the refurbishment of Birminghams New Street Station . I must have passed it many times without realising it was a memorial.

Presumably both a 14-18 & 39-45 memorial?

For a particular group or locale?

Was it a replacement for an earlier memorial?