
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shepway
- Town
- Hythe
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Gilbert Bayes RBS (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 26 January 1921
Attended by: Bishop Suffragan of Dover
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 16132
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Current location
North wall.
St Leonard's Church
Oak Walk
Hythe
Shepway
Kent
CT21 5DN
England
OS Grid Ref: TR 16150 34910
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Panels of names set in a bronze frame and surmounted by a bronze group of two helmeted and caped soldiers and two horses above the enamelled arms of Hythe.
- Inscription
- (Names)/ TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF ALL HYTHE/ OFFICERS AND MEN WHO DIED FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ FATHER INTO THY HANDS WE COMMEND THEIR SPIRITS
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 152
Served and returned: 0
Died: 152
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initials, surname
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height c1000mm, width 1150mm
Materials: Alabaster - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Figures
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Enamel
- Tablet
- 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 - Reference
- Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953 by Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury 45, 131 Published:Richard Dennis 1998 Shepton Beauchamp Overall size of memorial 1040mm. high x 1155mm. wide
- Buildings of England series by Various Kent: North East and East (2013) p.410
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