Oldgroaners Phone&Compact

By Oldgroaner

Not quite what it seems!

This is the cross in Sledmere village, east riding of Yorkshire.
It looks mediaeval, but in fact it's a fine copy of an Eleanor cross that was erected in 1896/1898 as a village cross, then in 1920 converted to a war memorial for the first world war.
On it are brasses of what appear to be knights in chain mail, but are actually portraits of men from the village dressed as knights, but carrying rifles who were killed in France.
It also carries a portrait of the local Lord, Sir Mark Sykes the sixth baronet, who died in 1919

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