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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Wirral
- Town
- Birkenhead
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 15332
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Current location
SHAFTESBURY BOYS CLUB
Birkenhead
Wirral
Merseyside
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 300 880
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- LEATHER BOUND BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE. WHITE PAGES WITH BLACK AND RED LETTERING. BOOK CONTAINS EXTARCTS OF LETTERS IN THE FORM OF OBITUARIES.
- Inscription
- "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI"/ IN MEMORY OF MEMBERS/ OF THE/ SHAFTESBURY BOYS CLUB/ BIRKENHEAD/ 1914/1915/1916/1917/1918/ "HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH/ SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHASDOW OF THE ALMIGHTY" /PSALM 91 .V.L/ "YOUR LIFE IS LAID WITH CHRIST IN GOD"/ COLOSIANS 3.V.3.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ainscough, David
Almond, William
Benenett, William
Bibby, J Morton
Boyd, Robert C
Brown, Edward
Brown, William
Byrne, Thomas
Carruthers, Walter
Cartwright, John
See details for all 73 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 73
Served and returned: 0
Died: 73
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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