Battlefield cross
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
1060 x 590 mm
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Ightham Mote, Kent
NT 825528.1
Summary
French wooden cross brought back from France where it marked the grave of Sir Thomas Colyer Fergusson's son, Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson VC, who was killed at the battle of Ypres on 31st July 1917. Supported on a polychrome plaster corbel depicting a peasant playing bagpipes.