Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Photograph
- District
- Burnley
- Town
- Burnley
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 10592
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Current location
Museum
Towneley Museum
Towneley Park
Burnley
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 3RQ
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 85428 30887
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Framed photograph. Original location unknown.
- Inscription
- DUCLE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI/ TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF AGE 19 CPL WILLIAM ASPINALL OF USHAW COLLEGE ENLISTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BATTN NOV 1915 NO 9073 20TH ROYAL FUSILILIERS ATTACHED TO 8TH GLOU KILLED IN ACTION JULY 29TH 1916/ THE CLERGY & PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART OF COLNE DESIRE TO CONVEY TO HIS SORROWING RELATIVES THEIR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY/ THE LORD GAVE & THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY/ BLESSED BE THE ANME OF THE LORD/ MARY COMFORT OF THE AFFLICTED/ PRAY OFR US/ FATHER ASPINALL PP
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aspinall, William
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,manner of death,age of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: height 580MM, width 440MM
Materials: Unknown
- Frame
- 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
- TOWNELEY HALL MUSEUM
- Reference
- Burnley in the Great War www.burnleyinthegreatwar.info/burnleyrollofhonourmena/aspinallwilliam9703.htm Acting/Corporal William Aspinall
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