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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Wirral
- Town
- Birkenhead
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War - civilians
- Maker
- MESSRS EDMUND KIRBY & SONS (Architect)
SIR GEORGE JAMES FRAMPTON RA (Sculptor) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 30th December 1918
Attended by: MAJ GEN O R A JULIAN CB CMG
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 15592
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- Previous locations
- BOROUGH HOSPITAL (DEMOLISHED)
Park Road North
Birkenhead
Wirral
Merseyside
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 300 880
Denomination: Undefined
- BOROUGH HOSPITAL (DEMOLISHED)
- Description
- MEMORIAL WARD. ALSO WHITE STONE LIFE-SIZED BUST OF EDITH CAVELL SET IN GLASS CASE. CASE MADE OF OAK WITH GLASS PANELS AT FRONT AND SIDE. CASE BEARS DECORATIVE CARVING AND SMALL PANEL BEARING INSCRIPTION. TABLET BENEATH CASE OF WHITE SICILIAN MARBLE WITH INSCRIPTION IN CARVED AND GUILDED LETTERING.
- Inscription
- PANEL: TO HER WHO WAS MERCIFUL, NO MERCY WAS SHOWN. MARBLE TABLET: SACRED TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF NURSE EDITH CAVELL, HEAD OF A NURSING HOME IN BRUSSELLS, WHO, BECAUSE OF HER DEVOTION TO HER DUTY IN PROTECTING AND ASSISTING ENGLISH AND BELGIAN SOLDIERS, HER PATIENTS, WAS SHOT BY THE GERMANS ON OCTOBER 12TH, 1915/ THIS MEMORIAL WARD WAS, IN PART, ENDOWED FROM A FUND INITIATED BY THE BIRKENHEAD NEWS, SUBSCRIBED TO BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH, AND FURTHER AUGMENTED BY THE CHARITIES LADIES COMMITTEE, UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MAYORESS (MRS MERRITT) (exact line spacing unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Cavell, Edith
See details - Commemorations
- First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year died,place of death,forename,occupation
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War - civilians
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Sicilian - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Condition
- Edith Cavell
- WMO ID: 253902
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 21-09-2017]
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- Costs
Site: £842 3S 3D
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: FUNDS FOR CONTINUATION OF WARD. - Sponsorship
- Private,public
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