Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Macclesfield
- Town
- Knutsford
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Non-Combat Deaths
- Ceremony
- Rededicated
Date: 1994
Attended by: Major Redmond - Unveiled
Date: August 1922
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Opened
Date: 2nd August 1922
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (2)
- Rededicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
British Red Cross
Memorial House
Northwich Road
Knutsford
Macclesfield
Cheshire
WA16 0AW
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 74317 78631
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Hospital, with supporting tablet outside and two oak name panels in the entrance hall (WW1, WW2). Two plaster wreaths with dates 1914 and 1918 above WW2 board. Memorial commemorates those from Allostock, Bexton, High Legh, Knutsford, Lower Peover, Marthall, Mere, Mobberley, Nether Peover, Ollerton, Over Peover, Peover Inferior, Pickmere, Plumley, Tabley Inferior, Tabley Superior, Tatton and Toft.
- Inscription
- TABLET: THIS HOSPITAL WAS FOUNDED / IN MEMORY OF THE GALLANT / MEN FROM KNUTSFORD & THE / SURROUNDING DISTRIST WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING / & COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED / ON THE TABLET IN THIS HALL/ TABLET: IN MEMORY OF ALL RANKS/ WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945. WW1 BOARD: KNUTSFORD AND DISTRICT / PRO PATRIA 1914-1918 /(Names) WW2 BOARD: KNUTSFORD AND DISTRICT / PRO PATRIA 1939-1945 AND SINCE/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Acton, Charles
Ainscoe, William
Alcock, W Cecil
Aldcroft, Herbert
Allen, William F
Ashby, H
Atkinson, Albert
Bailey, Daniel
Bailey, J
Bailey, John
See details for all 320 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 244
Served and returned: 0
Died: 244
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, home town
Order of information: home town THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 74
Served and returned: 0
Died: 74
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: home town THEN surname - Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, initials of forenames, home town
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Hospital
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Hospital
- 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
- Knutsford War Memorial Cottage Hospital currently called Memorial House
- WMO ID: 184014
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-11-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- HOSPITAL CLOSED 1995 AND BECAME RED CROSS CENTRE.
- Costs
Site: Gifted
Comments: Land provided by Major Leicester-Warren of Tabley
Memorial: £6,274.8s.7d- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Voluntary subscriptions and donations by members of the Knutsford & District community and local organisations. - Reference
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/184014 - accessed 17 May 2022
- www.knutsfordtowncouncil.gov.uk/explore/war-memorials - Details of the memorial cottage and the relocation of its elements. - accessed 17 May 2022
- UK Roll of Honour Entry for D A Hadden (post war casualty)- veterans.mod.uk/roll-of-honour.php?SerialNo=X14385
- www.carlscam.com/warmem/kford.htm (for a photograph of the WW2 board)
- Knutsford Guardian Newspaper 1973-2010
- Minute Books, Accounts, AGM & Chairman's Reports of the Knutsford Leauge of Hospital 1972-1997
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