Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Tamworth
- Town
- Tamworth
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Opened
Date: 29th May 1924
Attended by: HRH THE DUKE OF YORK KG
- Opened
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13752
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Current location
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MacGregor Tithe
Hospital Street
Tamworth
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B79 7EF
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 20646 04289
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Tamworth General Hospital (Redundant)
Hospital Street
Tamworth
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B79 7EE
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 20653 04341
Denomination: Undefined
- Tamworth General Hospital (Redundant)
- Description
- WARD WING AND OUT-PATIENTS HALL WITH DEDICATORY PLAQUES AND LISTS OF THE FALLEN INSIDE THE HALL. MAIN MEMORIAL TABLET IS BRONZE. OVER THE INSCRIPTION IS A RELIEF CROSS WITH LAUREL RELIEF. AT REACH CORNER IS AN ENGLISH ROSE. TWO FURTHER BRONZE TABLETS ON EACH SIDE OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE HALL BEAR THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO DIED.
- Inscription
- MAIN TABLET - THEY WHOM THIS HALL / COMMEMORATES WERE / NUMBERED AMONG THOSE / WHO AT THE CALL OF KING / & COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT / WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED / HARDNESS, FACED DANGER, & / FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE / SIGHT OF MEN BY THE / PATH OF DUTY AND SELF- / SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR / OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS / MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. / LET THOSE THAT COME AFTER SEE TO / IT THAT THEIR NAME BE NOT FORGOTTEN TWO PLAQUES ON EITHER SIDE - THESE WALLS RECORD THE NAMES OF 608 MEN / OF TAMWORTH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 / (NAMES UNDER EACH DISTRICT IN TAMWORTH)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, H
Aday, H
Adderley, J
Adie, W A
Alcott, J H
Allbrighton, H
Allbrighton
Allen, V
Allen
Allgood, H
See details for all 605 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 608
Served and returned: 0
Died: 608
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plaques / Panels with names
- 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
- Tamworth Hall of Memory
- WMO ID: 238895
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 20-06-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Site: £12000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Anonymous, 'Royal visit to Tamworth: Enthusiastic reception of the Duke of York opening of local war memorial', Tamworth Herald, Saturday 31 May 1924, pp. 5 & 8.
- War Memorials Online: www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/243320 + www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/252920/
- Tamworth Herald, 14 November 2002.
- Anonymous, 'Memorial Hall set to open soon', Tamworth Herald, Thursday 29 November 2001, p. 3.
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