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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shrewsbury And Atcham
- Town
- Castlefields
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 August 1919
Attended by: Mr John Barber JP
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 14006
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Current location
All Saints Church
North Street
Castlefields
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
SY1 2JH
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 49887 13193
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- ON THE FRONT WALL OF THE CHAPEL
CASTLE FIELDS WESLEYAN CHURCH
Castle Fields
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 500 130
Denomination: Undefined
- ON THE FRONT WALL OF THE CHAPEL
- Description
- A marble tablet to the members of the Chapel who were killed in the First World War.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF MEN WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 CONNECTED WITH CASTLE FIELDS WESLEYAN CHURCH (NAMES) GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS JOHN 15. 13. (LINE SPACING UNKNOWN)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Austin, Percy
Barker, Wm J
Bower, Wm J
Francis, Wm
Layton, Albert
Morris, Wm
Nightingale, Harry
Smout, Fred
Wenlock, Geo H
Williams, Cecil
See details for all 10 names - Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- 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
- Castlefields Wesleyan Church WWI
- WMO ID: 188601
- Condition: Good [last updated on 10-04-2018]
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- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- 'Shrewsbury and District: Tribute to the Fallen', Shrewsbury Chronicle, 22 August 1919, p. 8.
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