Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Garden
- District
- Crawley
- Town
- Crawley
- County
- West Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27th March 1949
Attended by: Four year old Diana Jenkins and Bobby Morris, a Scout patrol leader - two children who lost their father in the war. - Dedicated
Date: 27th March 1949
Attended by: Rev. D. L. Couper, Rector of Crawley - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 16601
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Current location
Near Town Centre
Memorial Gardens
Parkside
Crawley
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 1EH
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 27141 36541
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Memorial gardens with brick pillar and wrought iron gates with a plaque on each pillar
- Inscription
- PLAQUE ONE: IFIELD AND CRAWLEY / WAR MEMORIAL / THIS RECREATION GROUND / WAS BOUGHT THROUGH / PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AND / THE ENTRANCE GATES AND / TABLETS WERE PRESENTED / AND ERECTED BY / JOHN F. DRUGHORN / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF / IFIELD AND CRAWLEY WHO / FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 18 PLAQUE TWO TO FOUR: ROLL OF HONOUR / (NAMES) PLAQUE FIVE: ROLL OF HONOUR 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES) PLAQUE SIX: ROLL OF HONOUR / 1939 - 1945 / KILLED IN CRAWLEY / THROUGH ENEMY / ACTION / (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, L G
Aitchison, R S
Ayling, Mrs. H.
Baker, H J
Banham, J J
Bartley, N
Bayford, W
Bish, A
Blundell, J
Brett, A E
See details for all 157 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 111
Served and returned: 0
Died: 111
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials
Order of information: surname, initials - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 37
Served and returned: 0
Died: 37
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials
Order of information: surname, initials - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, marital status, initial
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Plaques
Measurements: height 900MM, width 530MM
Materials: Metal - Gate
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wrought Iron
- Pillar
- 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
- CRAWLEY MEMORIAL GARDENS
- WMO ID: 182312
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 26-08-2014]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- ORIGINAL PLAQUES REPLACED. THE ORIGINALS ARE KEPT IN CRAWLEY MUSEUM. THE ORIGINAL SEVEN ACRES OF THE LAND HAS BEEN ALTERED AND REDUCED DUE TO COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER IN 1953 FOR ROAD WORKS AND A CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION IN 1973.
- Costs
Comments: £140 raised by public subscription in 1922.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- CRAWLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Reference
- crawley.cyng.org.uk/CW-War.html
- Crawley and District Observer - Friday 01 April 1949 WAR BEREAVED CHILDREB UNVEIL TABLETS
- Crawley and District Observer - Friday 18 February 1949 WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILING
- Crawley and District Observer - Friday 25 March 1949 Crawley War Memorial Two Bronze Tablets
- crawley.cyng.org.uk/CWM-WarMemorial.html
- crawley.cyng.org.uk/CCT-ThreeBridgesRoad.html#MemorialGardens
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