Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Cunninghame
- Town
- Irvine
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 63761
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Current location
Irvine Delivery Office (Former Post Office)
165 High St
Irvine
Cunninghame
Strathclyde
KA12 8AE
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 32051 39031
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Nowy-headed wooden backboard on which is a metal plaque with inscription in relief and, at the head between the dates, a thistle coloured in green and gold enclosed in a wreath, with ribbons below.
- Inscription
- IRVINE POST OFFICE/ 1914 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ OUR COMRADES WHO MADE THE/ SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ (Names)/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brown, D
Gates, T
Nicholl, G
Potts, T
Watt, T
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Survey of Royal Mail War Memorials Mem252 catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk
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