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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Ipswich
- Town
- Ipswich
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 3rd December 1919
Attended by: Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 4644
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Current location
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- St Michael's Church
10 Upper Orwell Street
Ipswich
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 1HN
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 16738 44525
Denomination: Church of England
- St Michael's Church
- Description
- Nowy-headed board with a shelf bellow. At the top centre is a bas-relief of an armed Saint, cross in right hand, sword in left, trampling on a dragon. Gold lettering.
- Inscription
- ST MICHAEL'S IPSWICH/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN DEATHLESS MEMORY OF/ THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED/ IN DEFENCE OF KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR AUGUST 1914 - 1919/ THE FIRST EIGHT WERE ACTIVELY ENGAGED/ IN DEFINITE CHRISTIAN WORK IN CONNECTION/ WITH THE CHURCH WHEN CALLED TO THE COLOURS/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, P W
Barham, A G
Beecroft, G
Berry, A C
Browne, T F
Brunning, S C S
Butcher, E A
Chittock, F E
Collins, T H
Cook, P G
See details for all 49 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 49
Served and returned: 0
Died: 49
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname
Order of information: Eight names engaged in church work and then alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height 1500mm, width 780mm
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- Condition
- History
- Memorial believed lost on night of 7th March 2011 in a fire which gutted the building. Building derelict in July 2015. Owned by JIMAS, a Muslim educational charity.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Islamic Organisation
- Reference
- East Anglian Daily Times, 4 December 1919.
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