Q- Shoreham Cross- War Memorial

In 1920, local resident Samuel Cheesman proposed the idea of a cross cut into the chalk on this hillside. The cross was to commemorate Richard and Cecil, two of his sons lost in the first world war, as well as the other men forty-eight men of Shoreham who had been killed. The site was donated by a local landowner, Francis Mildmay, and on Empire Day, 24 May 1920, the Shoreham United Brass Band played ‘Lest We Forget’, as the villagers set off up the hill, to dig the first turf. Constructed of compacted chalk, edged with concrete blocks, it took 16 months to complete. On Remembrance Sunday Samuel Cheeseman would drag a small cannon to the cross and fire salvos to mark the beginning and the end of the Two-minute silence.