East Knoyle War Memorial

, 1920–1923]] The memorial was unveiled on 26 September 1920. Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson officiated, in one of his last public acts before departing to take up the Indian Command. Rawlinson's mother was from East Knoyle, and he had been brought up there as a child; his cousin Jane Margaret Seymour owned and leased out Knoyle House at the time. Another cousin, Colonel Henry Hales Pleydell-Bouverie, was a trustee to the estate of their uncle Alfred Seymour, which had donated to the memorial's fund. Rawlinson had also been friends with George Wyndham, whose son Percy Lyulph Wyndham had served as Rawlinson's aide-de-camp before his death in the First Battle of the Aisne in…

The East Knoyle War Memorial stands on a village green in the centre of East Knoyle, at the intersection of Church Road, The Street, and Wise Lane. Before a 1996 bypass, it stood alongside the A350. The location was named Knoyle House Corner when the memorial was built, although the namesake house was razed in 1954. Several hundred feet down Church Road lies St Mary's Church, a grade I listed building dating to the twelfth century. The memorial is carved from Portland stone. It comprises a three-stepped square base set beneath a square plinth, from which a thin, tapering shaft rises 16 ft and terminates in a small wheel cross. Several stone flower holders rest on the top step, one of which…