Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Mid Suffolk
- Town
- Eye
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Mr Ernest E Saunders, Ipswich (Builder)
T R Parkington, Ipswich (Sculptor)
Sir Thomas Henry Tacon DL, JP (Sponsor) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 7 March 1920
Attended by: Miss Maud Tacon
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4665
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Current location
Eye Parish Church
Church St
Eye
Mid Suffolk
Suffolk
IP23 7BD
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 14893 73800
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Portland stone pediment and base. Sword of Sacrifice between two columns of names.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD/ FROM THIS TOWN WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ (Names)/ PRESENTED BY/ SIR THOMAS HENRY TACON DL JP
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bailey, Thomas C
Battle, Lance
Bird, William J
Boughton, Frederick W
Bowell, Thomas W
Burridge, Walter
Canham, Walter H
Cason, Frederick
Chambers, Edward
Clover, Ernest
See details for all 48 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 48
Served and returned: 0
Died: 48
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname, forename, decorations
Order of information: Alphabetically
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 1372 mm, width 1168 mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- 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
- Private
- Responsibility
- Eye Baptist Church
- Reference
- East Anglian Daily Times, 8 March 1920 - Account of unveiling
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