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Description: | This cross was originally on the grave of 2nd Lieutenant Herbert
Musgrove Beck, Royal Flying Corps, who grew up in Mayfair
Avenue, Ilford.
Lieutenant Beck's grave is in the Military
Cemetery at Amiens, France. He was killed in a flying accident
in 1918. When a permanent gravestone was installed, the War
Graves Commission offered the cross to Lieutenant Beck's
parents. They in turn presented it to their parish church,
St.Clement's, Ilford, as a memorial to him.
For some years,
the cross went missing but was discovered by local policemen in
1992 and was returned to the church. St.Clement's Church closed
in 2005 and the cross was donated to Redbridge Museum Service. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Redbridge Museum | Rights holder: | Redbridge Museum | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 1918 | Source: | Redbridge Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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