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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Oxford
- Town
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61827
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Current location
Outside the Delivery Manager's Office
Royal Mail House
Delivery Office
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1XX
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 50673 05980
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Oxford Delivery Office
Oxpens Rd
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1XX
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Oxford Mail Centre
Alec Issigonis Way
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 2ZZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 547 042
Denomination: Undefined - Exact location uncertain
but may be St Aldate's
Oxford
or after 1920
GPO Sorting Office
Becket St
Osney
Oxford Post Office
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (2)
- Oxford Delivery Office
- Description
- Engraved metal plaque in carved wood frame with royal arms at top and badge of oxford at bottom.
- Inscription
- IN EVERLASTING MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF OXFORD/ POST OFFICE WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (Names)/ ERECTED BY OXFORD POST OFFICE STAFF
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Burley, Henry E
Grain, Harold T
Hall, William J
Parsons, William J
Sturges, Harry H
Tolley, Charles
Williams, George H
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal - Frame
Measurements: height 725mm, width 540mm
Materials: Wood
- 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 - Responsibility
- Royal Mail
- Reference
- Post Office Magazine Vol.10 Published:The Post Office 1934-39, 1946-67 London
- Oxfordshire Family History Society
- British Postal Museum and Archive Mem142
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