Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Poole
- Town
- Foxholes
- County
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 23 May 1915 (?)
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 48873
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Current location
St. Clement's Church
St. Clements Road
Foxholes
Poole
Dorset
BH15 3PQ
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 03397 93100
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- SHIELD SHAPED TABLET, UNDER WHICH IS HUNG A RECTANGULAR ONE RECORDING THE UNVEILING
- Inscription
- (1) SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR US/ IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 1915/ (NAMES)/ "GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN THAN THIS." (2)TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THE ABOVE TABLET WAS ERECTED/ BY THE VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS/ OF OVER 300 PARISHIONERS./ AND UNVEILED ON / WHIT-SUNDAY MAY 23RD 1915,/ BY/ THE REV. A.H HOPE-SMITH, M.A./ (PRIEST-IN-CHARGE)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brackstone, Herbert C
Brewer, Ernest
Cattle, Thomas Robert
Cherrett, Thomas
Clarke, Frederick George
Darley, Harry
Fendley, Simon Frederick
Goff, Edgar Frederic
Hopkins, Henry Charles
Hunt, Ivor
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 900MM, width 600MM
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- 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
- Foxholes Parishioners - 1915
- WMO ID: 76333
- Condition: Good [last updated on 19-02-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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