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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Birmingham
- Town
- Birmingham
- County
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Regimental Memorials
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: July 1921
Attended by: LT GEN SIR LAUNCELOT KIGGELL
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 17334
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Current location
Centre of west wall
St Phillip's Cathedral
St Philip's Square
Colmore Row
Birmingham
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 2QB
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 06958 87032
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A Central Dedicatory Plaque, with the badge of the Regiment in brass against a shield bearing the cross of St George, surrounded by four diamond shaped plaques for the individual battalions.
- Inscription
- Central Plaque: 1914 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE BELOVED AND HONOURED/ MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, WARRANT/ OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,/ AND MEN OF THE VTH AND VITH BATTALIONS/ THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT/ WHO SERVED AND FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ THE LORD BLESS THEM AND KEEP/ THEM THE LORD MAKE THE LIGHT/ OF HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON THEM/ AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEM AND/ GIVE THEM REST/ FOR EVER/ MORE Top Left: 1ST VTH / BATTALION/RAISED 1860 /SERVED IN FLANDERS / FRANCE & ITALY/1915 -/-18 Top Right: 1ST VITH / BATTALION/ RAISED 1891/SERVED IN FLANDERS/ FRANCE & ITALY/1915 -/-18. Lower Left: IIND VTH / BATTALION/RAISED OCT 1914 / SERVED IN FRANCE /& FLANDERS/DISBANDED/February /1918 Lower Right: IIND VITH/BATTALION/RAISED OCT 1914 / SERVED IN FRANCE /& FLANDERS/DISBANDED /November / 1919
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Plaque
- 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
- 5th and 6th Battalions, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- WMO ID: 106602
- Condition: Good [last updated on 01-02-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- The Cathedral Chapter
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