Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Endowed bed
- District
- Ipswich
- Town
- Ipswich
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 23995
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Anglesea Heights Nursing Home
Ivry Street
Ipswich
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 3QW
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 16047 45246
Denomination: Undefined
- 3
- Description
- Bed with attached tablet. Tablet of plain bronze with white enamelled lettering. Organisers of appeal fund for the War Memorial Hospital wing decided that any location donating more than £500 could have a bed endowed with their name attached to it. Installed in 1924. The hospital was demolished in March 1988. Neither the beds nor the plaques are to be found in the present, replacement hospital. £767.4.0 was raised in the village.
- Inscription
- FRESTON WAR MEMORIAL BED
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
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)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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