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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Trophy / Relic
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Alnwick
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Animal Memorials
- Maker
- P. Spicer and Sons, Fine Art Taxidermists, Leamington (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Presented
Date: March 1919
Attended by: Lance Corporal Unwin
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 34179
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Current location
Northumberland Fusiliers Museum
Abbot's Tower
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1NG
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 18625 13538
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Hexham TA Centre (by 2016 Army Reserve Centre)
Dare Wilson Barracks
Hencotes
Hexham
Tynedale
Northumberland
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 931 639
Denomination: Undefined
- Hexham TA Centre (by 2016 Army Reserve Centre)
- Description
- STUFFED DOG IN PURPOSE BUILT CASE WITH PLAQUE. Plaque has the heading written in Gothic lower case script, the rest printed in Roman lower case.
- Inscription
- "SAMMY"/ REGIMENTAL PET OF THE 4TH BATTALION NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS/ LANDED IN FRANCE WITH THE BATTALION ON APRIL 20TH 1915./ TOOK PART IN THE ATTACK ON ST JULIEN DURING THE 2ND BATTLE/ OF YPRES, APRIL 26TH 1915, AND WAS WOUNDED AND GASSED IN/ THE SUBSEQUENT FIGHTING; WAS WITH THE BATTALION CONTINUOUSLY/ UNTIL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED DURING FIELD FIRING PRACTICE AT/ WARFUSEE IN THE AUTUMN OF 1916
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Sammy
See details - Commemorations
- Animal Memorials
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: additional
Order of information: Undefined
- Animal Memorials
- Components
- Case
Measurements: depth 300MM, height 475MM, width 675MM
Materials: Glass, Wood - Trophy / Relic
Measurements: height 340mm, width 610mm
Materials: Undefined
- Case
- 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
- History
- Reconditioned August 1991
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- WMSH51.32
- Hexham Weekly News 28/3/1919 reports formal handing over of Sammy to the Comrades of 4th N.F
- Hexham Courant 15/03/2002 features the story with photograph
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7622
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