Cross from Reninghest Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium : Captain G E Wells, 11 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF

Wooden grave cross originally erected over the grave of Captain Geoffrey Erskine Wells, 11th Brigade AFA, AIF at Reninghest cemetery near Ypres in Belgium. Made and erected by his fellow officers, the cross is made of timber 9.5 x 5 cm in thickness. Its design is a cross with a circle through all four arms. The circle and the cross are held together by metal strips nailed to the wood. Cross arm is 61 cm long and the upright is 111cm long. Diameter across the circle is 44.5 cm. There are three small metal tags on the upright of the cross level with the cross arm, these are the grave's registry tags. There is another 27 cm metal strip across the arm below the registry tags. Cross was originally painted white.

Captain Geoffrey Erskine Wells enlisted on 19 August 1914 and died of wounds received on Passchendaele Ridge on 6 October 1917. He served with 11 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF. He was a farmer from Walkerville, SA and was aged 26 when he died. He had been educated at St Peter's collegiate school and Roseworthy Agricultural College.The cross was returned to the family in Adelaide when permanent markers were erected in the cemeteries of the Western Front. This cross was erected next to the graves of Well's parents, Alfred and Gertrude Wells, at the North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth in Adelaide.