Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Stafford
- Town
- Stafford
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918), Post-1945 war or conflict
- Maker
- Joseph Whitehead & Sons (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28 Oct 1922
Attended by: Earl of Dartmouth PC KCB - Rededicated
Date: 10th November 1991
Attended by: Bishop of Lichfield - Dedicated
Date: 28th October 1922
Attended by: Bishop of Lichfield - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2117
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Current location
Square outside Stafford Crown Court
Crown Court
Earl Street
Stafford
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST16 2AQ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 92030 23129
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Bronze figure of soldier raising helmet aloft in right hand and holding rifle in left hand and standing on heaped debris, upon a tall square plinth. Stepped top has inscription and bronze wreaths. Plinth shaft has angle nook shafts and inscribed names to all faces.
- Inscription
- (6 o'clock face): THE GREAT TASK ACCOMPLISHED/1914-1918/ (Names)/TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF/THE MEN OF STAFFORD/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR (9 o'clock face): (Names) / IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL / 1939 - 1945 / AND ON ACTIVE SERVICE SINCE (12 o'clock face): (Names) (3 o'clock face): (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbotts, F H
Adams, J
Allard, S
Alldis, E
Alldis, F
Allen, E
Allen, F
Allen, G
Allen, G
Allport, A
See details for all 588 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 587
Served and returned: 0
Died: 587
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname, initials
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname - Post-1945 war or conflict
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Pedestal
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Sculpture
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Pedestal
- Listing information
- STAFFORD BOROUGH WAR MEMORIAL
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Stafford Borough War Memorial
- WMO ID: 251263
- Condition: Good [last updated on 30-08-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Moved within the square in 1991 due to the completion of the Crown Court complex and Victoria Square and Victoria Road becoming pedestrianised.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Departments WM 1330
- Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 4.11.22, Stafford
- Wellington Journal and Shrewsbury News, 12.8.22, Page 9 Column 6, Stafford
- Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 29.3.19, Page 7 Column 7, Stafford.
- Staffordshire Newsletter, 18.2.94, 'Tribute at last to a fallen hero'
- Staffordshire Newsletter, 11.10.91, 'Return of soldier'
- Staffordshire Newsletter, 8.11.91, 'Ceremony at re-sited memorial'
- Staffordshire Newsletter, 19.4.91, 'War dead memorial to move closer'
- Stoke Newsletter, 21.9.90, 'Memorial pushed in corner', F Cooper
- Staffordshire Newsletter, 28.9.90, 'Reprimand needed over war memorial', F J and K M Morgan
- Carter Postcard Collection
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