Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Panelling
- District
- Camden
- Town
- Camden
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 24 October 1924
Attended by: CANON H L C DE CANDOLE - Unveiled
Date: 24 October 1924
Attended by: SIR FREDERICK KENYON - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 11063
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Current location
On the Left Hand wall in the main entrance to the reading rooms
British Library
Euston Road
Camden
Camden
Greater London
NW1 2DB
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 29972 82897
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- British Museum
Great Russell Street
Camden
Camden
Greater London
WC1B 3DG
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 29980 81702
Denomination: Undefined
- British Museum
- Description
- Plain Oak Panelling with five columns of names
- Inscription
- Across the top of the board: IN MEMORY OF THE BRITISH LIBRARIANS Across the base of the board: FALLEN IN THE WAR MCMXIV-MCMXVIII
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abby, J S
Abrams, R A
Allard, G O
Anderson, A R
Asling, E H
Bacon, S
Bayley, D J
Beaton, W J
Bevis, H B
Bishop, E
See details for all 142 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 142
Served and returned: 0
Died: 142
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, home library
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: depth 100 mm, height 2000 mm, width 4000 mm
Materials: Wood
- Board
- Listing information
- The British Library, piazza, boundary wall and railings to Ossulston Street, Euston Road and Midland Road
- Grade I
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- British Librarians
- WMO ID: 220512
- Condition: Good [last updated on 29-08-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD
- Reference
- Colin McIntyre 'Librarians died...', Library Association Record, 92 (8), August 1990, pp. 581-582.
- WELLINGTON JOURNAL & SHREWSBURY NEWS, 1 November 1924.
- Facebook post from the British Library with information and photographs of 36 of the men www.facebook.com/britishlibrary/photos/a.10150448376867139.414095.8579062138/10150448377012139/?type=3&permPage=1
- the Library Association also collected service details for each of the librarians named on the memorial. Many of the forms returned included photographs, which are now held in the British Library Corporate Archive
- British Library Blog Post dated 13 November 2011 about the history of the memorial-britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/11/valete-fratres-librarians-and-the-first-world-war.html?_ga=2.97381210.492029483.1568409856-700956990.1568409856
- British Library Blog Post dated 5 September 2019 about the death of Roger James Cholmeley MC, of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, one of those commemorated- blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/09/a-librarians-death-on-lake-onega-roger-james-chomeley.html?mc_cid=bc4656ef6e&mc_eid=dd9068d5b0
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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