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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Chester
- Town
- Chester
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: September 1919
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 20337
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Current location
Staff booking off point and mess room.
Chester Railway Station
Station Rd
Chester
Chester
Cheshire
CH1
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 413 669
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Chester Midland Top Shed 6A
Chester
Chester
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Chester Midland Top Shed 6A
- Description
- Brass plaque mounted onto a wooden backboard. Incised inscription. Foliate design depicted at the ends of the scroll at the top of the plaque.
- Inscription
- 1914 1918/ LOCOMOTIVE DEPT. L&NWR CHESTER/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ THIS TABLET/ IS ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE/ FOLLOWING EIGHT HEROES WHO DIED FIGHTING/ IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM IN THE GREAT WAR/ (NAMES)/ ALTOGETHER NINETY-EIGHT MEN FROM THIS SHED/ GALLANTLY FOUGHT IN THE SAME CAUSE./ SUBSCRIBED FOR BY THE WORKMATES OF/ THE ABOVE HEROES AND ERECTED BY PERMISSION/ OF THE CHIEF MECHANICAL ENGINEER/ SEPTEMBER 1919
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Arundale, George
Gaulton, Albert E
Hughes, John
Maynard, Samuel
Phillips, Idris
Rathbone, Samuel
Warburton, John T
Williams, Thomas
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: depth 10MM, height 980MM, width 700MM
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- The L&NWR Society Journal Volume 2 Number 6 June 1998
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