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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Lichfield
- Town
- Alrewas
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Gilbert Bayes RBS (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Rededicated
Date: 3 September 1999
Attended by: RECTOR OF LIVERPOOL
- Rededicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18248
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Current location
National Memorial Arboretum
Croxall Rd
Alrewas
Lichfield
Staffordshire
DE13 7AR
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 188 147
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- IN THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE
ROYAL AND SUN ALLIANCE
Badgers Rake La
Ledsham
Chester
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 350 740
Denomination: Undefined
- IN THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE
- Description
- GREEN MARBLE TABLET WITH SEMI-CRENELLATED TOP SET INTO STONE BASE. INSCRIPTION AND NAMES ON THREE WHITE MARBLE TABLETS SET INTO THE GREEN MARBLE. WW2 TABLET IS MOUNTED NEXT TO IT BRONZE OIL LAMP WITH FLAME IS AT THE TOP OF THE TABLET A WREATH AND RIBBON IS AT THE BASE. BETWEEN THE TWO TABLETS ARE A BRONZE LAUREL BRANCH AND ABOVE THEM IS A BRONZE FIGURE OF ST GEORGE KILLING THE DRAGON
- Inscription
- 1914 1918 / ROLL OF / HONOUR / (Names) / TO THE MEMORY OF MEMBERS OF / THE STAFF OF THE / SUN INSURANCE OFFICE / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, W
Baker, G L
Ballard, R F C
Barnes, H C
Barron, T
Cassera, E
Champion, C
Costello, A G
Cox, C F A
Davis, H C
See details for all 52 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 52
Served and returned: 0
Died: 52
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Detail
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Green - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Detail
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Sun Insurance Office WW1
- WMO ID: 256887
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 01-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2003: TRAINING SITE IS TO BE SOLD AND NEW HOME IS BEING SOUGHT FOR THE MEMORIALS 2003/2004: Most of the memorials located in the Royal Sun Alliance Garden were moved to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. However the re-siting of this memorial has not yet been confirmed
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- ROYAL AND SUNALLIANCE
- Reference
- Liverpool Daily Post 15 Feb. 1999
- Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953 by Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury pp.44,46 Published:Richard Dennis 1998 Shepton Beauchamp Dates memorial of two tablets as c1950.
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