range-mark

Updated: January 25, 2026

At the south end of the village stood the church, a broken gaping shell of red brick with imitation marble pillars; it was afterwards razed to the ground by the sappers, who required its bricks and perhaps thought it too good a range-mark to exist so near their store.

C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser) Cruttwell - The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)