History
Thurcroft War Memorials
On 8th August, 1925 a ceremony was held to commemorate victims of the first world war. Local clergy and dignataries were in attendance.
A memorial costing £170 was designed by the architect Lt. Col. J. Knight, built by Messrs. W. H. Treherne Ltd, and manufactured by Mr. J. & W. Hastings.
The memorial was in the form of a dedicatory oak board was housed in a library within Thurcroft Welfare Hall. It contains the names of the men who served and returned from the war and those who died.
Because of its popularity, the library moved in 1940, to larger premises - a shop on Green Arbour Road where it remained until 1989, when it was moved again to larger premises, to the Junior school on School Road.
The Roadside Memorial
The inscription reads:
'At The Going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them
For all those who made the supreme sacrifice in the two great World Wars and all conflicts since
Less we
forget'
Situated in a small garden, opposite the Thurcroft Hotel, on Green Arbour Road, the memorial consists of a stone obelisk.
St.Simon & St. Jude
In the church a plain rectangular wooden board with moulded border and painted inscription in gold lettering contains the inscription:
'1939-1945
To the Memory of those who gave their lives the Church Bell is dedicated by the people of Thurcroft. They died
that we might live'
Names on the Plaque
Herbert Abrahams, Frank Alcroft, Wilfred Archer, Ernest Barber, Alec Clayton,
Basil Drake, Jesse Few, Percy Fox,
Andrew Horsfield, George Horsfield,
George Johnson,
Leslie Johnson,
Walter Kelly,
George Pearson, George Robinson, Arnold Weldon,
Edward Wilde,
George Woodcock
Source: UK National Inventory of War Memorials
See also Casualties of War