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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Gosport
- Town
- Gosport
- County
- Hampshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17th April 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40449
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Current location
On the Summerhouse Wall
Northcote House Nursing and Residential Home
Bury Hall La
Gosport
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 2PP
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 59877 99202
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Clarence Square School
Clarance Square
Gosport
Gosport
Hampshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Clarence Square School
- Description
- Set of six name plaques and one dedicatory plaque, originally mounted together but now split and fixed under shelter around Summerhouse window.
- Inscription
- ERECTED BY THE TEACHERS, SCHOLARS, PARENTS AND FRIENDS TO THE/ GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE ABOVE NAMED FORMER SCHOLARS OF THE/ CLARENCE SQUARE SCHOOL, EMBRACING ALSO THE ORIGINAL CHURCH/ SCHOOLS OF ST MATTHEWS & HOLY TRINITY WHO HEROICALLY GAVE UP THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 AND AS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL PRESENT AND/ FUTURE SCHOLARS TO SO LIVE AS TO BE WORTHY OF THE GREAT SACRIFICE/ WHICH THEY HAVE MADE/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alexander, Alexander
Bailey, Charles
Barker, Herbert
Barry, Thomas
Belben, Harold
Benham, Charles
Best, Willam
Betts, Percy
Bigmore, Henry
Bishop, Archibald
See details for all 112 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 113
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 113
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 64
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 64
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: depth 70MM, height 940MM, width 1820MM
Materials: Wood - Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Frame
- 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
- CLARENCE SQUARE SCHOOL PUPILS - WW1
- WMO ID: 84088
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 08-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- PLAQUES FOUND ON A SKIP ON DEMOLITION OF SCHOOL. HANDED TO GOSPORT MUSEUM AND HANDED OVER TO THE GODS PORT HOUSING TRUST IN EARLY 1980S
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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