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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shrewsbury And Atcham
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: March/ April 1921
Attended by: Mr R F Prideaux
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13998
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Current location
IN THE VESTIBULE
GUILDHALL
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 490 120
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- A bronze plaque with an inscription.
- Inscription
- ERNEST WM SNOWDON, 7TH KSLI, AN OFFICIAL OF THIS BOROUGH, KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, 15TH JUNE 1916. ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICIALS IN PROUD REMEBRANCE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Snowdon, Ernest Wm
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,occupation,additional
Order of information: forename,regiment,occupation,manner of death,place of death,year died,additional
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Corporate
Details: Officials of the Borough Finance Department, the former colleagues of E W Snowdon. - Reference
- 'Shrewsbury Guildhall: Memorial Tablet', Shrewsbury Chronicle, 8 April 1921, p. 4.
- 'Shrewsbury and District: War Memorial', Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 9 April 1921, p. 7.
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