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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Crewe And Nantwich
- Town
- Audlem
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: July 1921
Attended by: Mr W Pugsley, late schoolmaster of Buerton - Dedicated
Date: July 1921
Attended by: Reverend Canon Cotton RD, vicar of Audlem - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18341
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Current location
On an inside wall of the South Chapel
Audlem Cemetery Chapel
Cheshire Street
Audlem
Crewe And Nantwich
Cheshire
CW3 0AH
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 65877 43776
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- On front wall of School building
Village School
Woore Road
Buerton
Crewe And Nantwich
Cheshire
CW3 0DD
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 68578 43408
Denomination: Undefined
- On front wall of School building
- Description
- Grey granite tablet with blacked lead inscription within a triangular arched black marble mount at the apex of which is etched a gilded laurel wreath. WW2 names are incised and gilded on the bottom of the frame.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING / MEN OF BUERTON / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 19. / (Names) 1939 / (Names) / 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bate, Joseph H
Griffiths, Fred
Hampson, Thomas
Hassall, Henry
Hobson, F William
Mackenzie, John G F
Morrey, Arthur
Morrey, Samuel
Ratcliffe, John
Stockton, Frederick
See details for all 12 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, initial, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black
- 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
- Buerton Village School (Men of Buerton) - original memorial
- WMO ID: 200358
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2012: The war memorial has been removed from the school and is in the possession of the Parish Council.
- Costs
Site: c. £46
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Parish Council
- Reference
- Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 30 July 1921, page 10, column 6. Source: Media Library Published:N/A WELLINGTON, SHROPSHIRE
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/200358/ . Accessed 2 May 2023.
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