Normanton on Trent War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure, achieving the status on 9 December 2014.
The memorial was unveiled on 14 April 1921 by Col O.J. Huskison and dedicated by the vicar, the Rev E.M. Turner. It was designed and made by Sharpe and Hoggard (of Retford) at a cost of £120.
The actual memorial appears to have been not without controversy. The parish magazine of June 1919 states that ‘all over England Memorials are being erected...There is some difference of opinion as to what form the Memorial should take, but as it seems to be the wish of most of the Parishioners that it should be a Cross placed in a conspicuous position in the old Churchyard, and as this has been decided upon, it is hoped that we shall now all pull together and be able to erect a suitable record of Noble lives given for King and Country, worthy of the object that we have in view...’. This suggests that there had been some differences over the form of the memorial, and eventually an obelisk was erected in 1921, at a cost of £120, according to Kelly’s Directory of 1928.
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THE CACHE
Near the memorial, most of the gravestones are too weathered. So, look for the metal headstone to a female who shares her surname with a type of weather movement. She died aged AB years on C August DEFG.
The cache can be found at:
N 53 12. B (G-C) ((G-C)+D)
W 000 49. C D A
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so they can keep track of the numbers
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****PHYSICAL CACHES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE PLACED ON THE ACTUAL MEMORIAL OR WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF SUCH MEMORIALS. AT ALL TIMES TREAT LOCATIONS OF MEMORIALS WITH RESPECT. ****