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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Thanet
- Town
- Margate
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 1557
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Current location
94
Margate Post Office
Cecil Square
Margate
Thanet
Kent
CT9 1AA
England
OS Grid Ref: TR 35452 70848
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Two white marble tablets, wall mounted, black lettering, black slate back board A laurel wreath appears top centre, the space in the centre of the wreath is blank
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/AND IN MEMORY OF /(NAMES)/MEMBERS OF THE/MARGATE & DISTRICT POST OFFICE STAFF/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/"THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" (ON A SEPERATE PLAQUE BELOW). AND ALSO PERCY A. CROWHURST/SAPPER ROYAL ENGINEERS/WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/1939-1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bateup, Herbert J
Crowhurst, Percy A
Emptage, George W
Euden, Arthur T
Fewell, George F
Jakes, Kenneth L
Smith, Harold L
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,regiment,forename,occupation, surname
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,forename,occupation
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: height 1200 MM, width 600 MM
Materials: Slate - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Backboard
- 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
- MARGATE AND DISTRICT POST OFFICE STAFF
- WMO ID: 120973
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 20-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- THE POST OFFICE
- Reference
- catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_Mem289 - accessed 15 January 2022
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