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Title
Lucker War Memorial
Medium
Doddington sandstone
Accession number
NE70_SD_S003
Work type
War memorial
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
13th November 1920
Listing date
14/10/16
Access
at all times
Inscription description
north face: THIS CROSS THE / SIGN OF OUR FAITH / WAS RAISED; west face: IN GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE / OF THESE MEN; south face: WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN DEFENCE OF / RIGHTEOUSNESS; east face: AND FREEDOM / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1919; the commemorated First World War names are incised into the faces of the middle stage, with at the foot of the east face the dates 1939–1945; below this the three Second World War names are incised into the face of the lowest stage of the base; the First World War names are placed on the face that was closest to where each person lived