Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tamworth
- Town
- Glascote
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1921
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 28439
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Current location
Delivery Office
Blythe Street
Glascote
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B77 2BP
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 21405 03425
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Tamworth HPO or Delivery Office (accounts vary)
Tamworth
Tamworth
Staffordshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Tamworth HPO or Delivery Office (accounts vary)
- Description
- TWO BRASS PLAQUES FIXED TO WOODEN BACKBOARDS. THE TOP PLAQUE COMMEMORATING FWW DEAD IS NOWY-HEADED. THE BOTTOM (WW2) PLAQUE IS A PLAIN RECTANGLE. CROSS SET IN A LAUREL WREATH UNDER THE CURVE OF THE NOWY-HEADED TOP.
- Inscription
- TOP PLAQUE - 1914 1918 / DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY / THROUGH ALL GENERATIONS / OF / [NAMES] BOTTOM PLAQUE - ALSO TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN WORLD WAR 1939 -1945 / [NAMES]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Armstrong, William H
Brittain, Thomas William
Herbert, Reginald R
Jackson, Donald Spencer
Lycett, Robert Arthur
Painter, Charles
Richardson, Norman
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: height 425, width 175
Materials: Wood - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- First World War memorial
- 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 - Responsibility
- POST OFFICE
- Reference
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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