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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Gosport
- Town
- Gosport
- County
- Hampshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 22029
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Current location
According to the Post Office
the Postmaster
Post Office and Royal Mail worked together to identify the most appropriate place to relocate the memorial so that members of the public could continue to pay their respects to those of our colleagues who sacrificed their lives.
Post Office Delivery Office
Mill Road
Ann's Hill
Camdentown
Gosport
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 3AB
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 60025 00884
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Enquiries office-on left wall on approaching corridor to main queue area
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Post Office
High Street
Gosport
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 1EH
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 61882 99863
Denomination: Undefined
- Enquiries office-on left wall on approaching corridor to main queue area
- Description
- Plain Varnished Board
- Inscription
- (WITHIN WREATH) FOR/ ENGLANDS/ GLORY ROLL OF HONOUR/ GOSPORT POST OFFICE/ (NAMES)/ 1914 - 1919
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ayling, W A
Bartlett, S R C
Bennett, H O
Brasnett, G
Cook, A H
Francis, W F
Gilham, R C
Green, N
Hall, M W
Harding, E
See details for all 34 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 34
Served and returned: 29
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height 950MM, width 590MM
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- 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
- GOSPORT POST OFFICE
- WMO ID: 102062
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 26-02-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- MEMORIAL RESITED (AND RESTORED?) WHEN POST OFFICE REBUILT ON SAME SITE
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- Royal Mail
- Reference
- catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_Mem243
- According to the Post Office, the Postmaster, Post Office and Royal Mail worked together to identify the most appropriate place to relocate the memorial so that members of the public could continue to pay their respects to those of our colleagues who sacrificed their lives.
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102062/
- www.royalmail.com/memorials/memorial/gosport-war-memorial
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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