Beer Memorial Cross

About Beer Memorial Cross

Location: Fore Street, Beer,
Parish: Beer

The war memorial in Beer sits in front of the town’s St Michael’s Church, on the corner of Fore Street and Church Street.

Made of local granite, it is a tall cross on top of a stone plinth. As with the majority of British memorials, following the 1939-45 conflict, more names were added.

It reads: “To the Glory of God and in proud and grateful memory of the gallant men from the parish who gave their lives in the great wars 1914 – 1919 1939 – 1945. They Shall Not Grow Old."

Memorial Inscription

To the Glory of God and in proud and grateful memory of the gallant men from the parish who gave their lives in the great wars 1914 - 1919 1939 - 1945 "They Shall Not Grow Old"

The Honoured

Name	Rank	Parish
ABBOTT Walter Tom	Able Seaman 229498	Beer
BARTLETT Anthony	Lance Corporal 391838	Beer
CARSLAKE George	Private 20110 (formerly 13664)	Beer
CARSLAKE William	Private 241746	Beer
CLARKE Walter George	Private 24827	Beer , Budleigh Salterton
FRANKLIN Norman George	Seaman 4269B	Beer
GUSH Archibald Walter	2nd Corporal 66338	Beer
GUSH Charlie Cleaver	Private 36424	Beer
HARNER William John	Petty Officer Stoker 308347	Beer
HAWKER Arthur	Private 36156,	Beer
HOOKINGS Reginald	Private 67987	Beer
LUMBARD Frank	Private 3005	Beer
MILLER Thomas Leonard	Private 23939	Beer
WHITE Lawrence Arthur	Lance Corporal 18297	Beer
WILKINS Victor Alfred Jarvis	Able Seaman J30171	Beer
WOODGATE John Henry	Private G/23616	Beer