Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Endowed bed
- District
- Wirral
- Town
- Neston
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients, Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2578
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Current location
St Mary & St Helen Church
High Street
Neston
Wirral
Merseyside
CH64 9TZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 29173 77460
Denomination: Church of England
- Previous locations
- Neston Cottage Hospital
Neston
Wirral
Merseyside
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Neston Cottage Hospital
- Description
- PLAQUE FROM HOSPITAL BED AND FRAMED MONOGRAPH
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THE LATE/2ND LIEUT G WARD GUNN VC MC/OF J BATTERY 3RD RHA/THIS BED IS ENDOWED/BY HIS MANY FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS/TO COMMEMORATE HIS/GALLANT DEED IN LIBYA 1941/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Gunn, George Ward
See details - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,decorations, surname
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forenames, manner of death,decorations, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Plaque
- 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
- G W Gunn VC MC
- WMO ID: 248027
- Condition: Good [last updated on 01-10-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- www.google.co.uk/search?q=george+ward+gunn+mostyn+house+school+memorial&safe=strict&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&tbm=isch&imgil=jNXDyLv68IUFYM:;nZ1X9gG6UmiYuM;www.carlscam.com/warmem/gunn.htm&source=iu&pf=m&fir=jNXDyLv68IUFYM:,nZ1X9gG6UmiYuM,_&usg=__ovFb_4VHysyvXLwdShi7v4MwpK4=&biw=1366&bih=659&ved=0ahUKEwjQptzhp6LWAhULCsAKHazoAZ4QyjcIRA&ei=Wzi5WZCNMouUgAas0YfwCQ#imgrc=jNXDyLv68IUFYM: (for a photograph)
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