Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hall / Institute
- District
- Rugby
- Town
- Marton
- County
- Warwickshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28th November 1921
Attended by: Colonel HARRIS
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 19332
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Current location
The Marton War Memorial Hall
Church Street
Marton
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV23 9RL
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 40665 68842
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Brick-built Memorial Hall with a wall-mounted, dedicatory incised slate tablet set into a window-like aperture, to the left of the entrance.
- Inscription
- Tablet : VILLAGE MEMORIAL HALL / This Hall was purchased by Voluntary / Subscription to the memory of / the Boys from the Village who / fell in the Great War 1914 -18 / (6 NAMES) / They died that we might live
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bennett, Fred
Mills, J. Mawby
Smallwood, George
Smallwood, Walter
Smith, Alfred
Young, Lewis J.
See details for all 6 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Hall
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Tablet
Measurements: height 760 mm, width 610 mm
Materials: Slate
- Hall
- 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
- The Marton War Memorial Hall.
- WMO ID: 156207
- Condition: Good [last updated on 10-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Marton Parish Council
- Reference
- Rugby Advertiser 3 December 1921
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