Brentford Gas Works (Brentford employees)

• Brentford Gas Works (mounted on north wall)
  High Street
  Brentford
  Hounslow
  Greater London
  England
  
  OS Grid Ref: TQ 18571 77859
  Denomination: Undefined
• St George's Church (now redundant)
  High Street
  Brentford
  Hounslow
  Greater London
  England
  
  OS Grid Ref: TQ 18436 77826
  Denomination: Church of England
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• First World War (1914-1918)
  Total names on memorial: 107
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 107
  Exact count: yes
  Information shown: Surname, initials
  Order of information: Listed alphabetically by surname, in 7 columns.

• Plaque
  Measurements: height 840 mm, width 1575 mm
  Materials: Bronze

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Comments: The memorial was one of a pair of identical plaques commissioned and funded by the Brentford Gas Company and its employees: this one was unveiled at St George's Church in Brentford; its twin was erected at the Company's worksite at Southall (our record of which is WMR 12643).

• Middlesex County Times, Saturday 8/7/1922, announced arrangements relating to the unveiling of this plaque in Brentford which was to take place on 9th July 1922: '8th BATT. MIDDLESEX REGIMENT. "B" Ccmpany Orders for week ending July 15. Sunday: Company and battalion drums will attend the unveiling of the Brentford Gas Company's War Memorial, at St. George's Church, Brentford. Company parade at Drill Hall, Ealing, 1.30 p.m. Dress —belt and bayonet. Medals will be worn'. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002464/19220708/149/0009
• War Memorials Online: www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/207702/
• Our record of the twin of this plaque, which was originally erected in St George's Church in Brentford, can be found at www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/12643
• The National Archives reference NT:GAL/BFG : 'The Brentford Gas Company was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1821. Its main works lay on either side of Brentford High Street, with a long frontage to the River Thames. Due to its location, expansion of the works was limited. In 1868 the company built a new works adjacent to Montague Road, in Southall. The company took over the Norwood (Middlesex) undertaking in 1870 and closed down the works. In 1915 Brentford Gas Co. took over the Staines and Egham District Gas & Co., whose works were at Staines and were kept operational, and the Sunbury Gas Consumers Co., whose works it closed. In 1924 Harrow and Stanmore Gas Co. was absorbed followed by Richmond Gas Co. in 1925 whose works remained operational until 1933. The Brentford Gas Company was taken over by the Gas Light & Coke Co. in 1926. Between 1929 and 1935 the whole of the Brentford works were rebuilt. The Brentford works were still in operation by 1957'. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/0bda74c3-5d55-4a27-8575-8fab0a91dd35
• The West Middlesex Gazette, 15/7/1922: printed a lengthy report re the unveiling at Southall of the twin plaque at the Company's Southall works, which included the following paragraphs: ''A TABLET OF REMEMBRANCE. Unveiling of Gas Works War Memorial. LARGE GATHERING AT IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. Erected just inside the entrance to the works, in a prominent position where all who enter will pass, a memorial tablet recalls to memory the magnificent part that the Southall works of the Brentford Gas Company played in the Great War and commemorates for all time the heroic sacrifice of those employees who, in the simple and eloquent words of the inscription, "laid down their lives for us and for their country.' The memorial, a solid bronze tablet, to a neat and artistic design by Mr. W. B. Lewis. a member of the Company's staff, is built in a wall adjoining the Company's offices on the right hand side of the roadway that enters the works. In raised letters, the inscription stands out in bold relief: "In proud and grateful remembrance of our comrades in these works who during the Great War laid down their lives for us and for their country." Then follow the names of the 107 employees of the Brentford Gas Company who were killed or died in the war, with these words at the foot: Greater love hath no man than this." The names of men attached to the Southall Works included on the tablet are: A. Brooks, J. Brown, R. Cameron, G. Cordery, A. Cornwall. S. Currington. M. Dorsett, H. Filbey, A. Gardner, J. J. Goldsmith. W. Greenway, F. Hahnenleld. W. T. A. Hardy, H. Higgins. H. P. Hoare, A. T. R. Hudson, F. Keen. R. E. Kilby, G. Knight, W. J. Luck, F. W. Lyne. F. G. R. Manning, L. Maynard, J. Miles, A. Murphy. C. Newman, E. G. Norton, C. Nutley. S. Pavis, E. Pickering, B. Randall. G. Rawlinson, A. G. Redding. C. E. Salter, W. E Salter. H. Snelling. J. S. V. Stoneham, W. Tilley, H. C. Walker, R. S. Walters, H. Webb, A. J. White. H. White. IMPRESSIVE SERVICE. The unveiling of the memorial took place on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering that included relatives of the fallen and pensioners and employees of the Company...' www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002572/19220715/081/0005