Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- West Devon
- Town
- North Tawton
- County
- Devon
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16th July 1921
Attended by: The Earl of Portsmouth
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 26040
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Current location
Cemetery
Exeter Street,
North Tawton
West Devon
Devon
EX20 2BZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SS 66732 01624
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- TWO-STEPPED BASE SUMOUNTED BY SQUARE PLINTH AND OBELISK. INSCRIPTION ON PINK MARBLE TABLETS ATTACHED TO THE SIDES OF THE PLINTH. ALSO, INSCRIPTION ON POST ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE
- Inscription
- FACE ONE: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ AND/ THE OWRLD WAR 1939 - 1945/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ ERECTED BY THE LATE/ FRANK HENSON GIBBINGS/ F.R.C.V.S. FACE TWO AND THREE: 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES) FACE FOUR: 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE."/ NUMBER WHO SERVED 306/ NUMBER WHO DIED 52 POST: THE/ POST/ AND/ CHAINS/ GIVEN BY/ WOMEN'S/ SECTION/ BRITISH/ LEGION.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alford, S
Anstey, F C
Arscott, W S
Attwell, M F
Avery, W W
Aysh, W
Barratt, W J A
Bolt, N F
Bolt, R
Bolt, Wallace John
See details for all 35 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank
Order of information: surname,rank - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 358
Served and returned: 306
Died: 52
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank
Order of information: surname,rank
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Pink - Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablets
- Listing information
- North Tawton War Memorial
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
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- Condition
- North Tawton
- WMO ID: 248302
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-08-2017]
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Comments: The memorial obelisk was raised in War Memorial Park, a public space given to the town by Frank Gibbings. FH Gibbings FRCVS (1855-1918) was a veterinarian, born in North Tawton, who from the late-nineteenth-century was resident in Nottingham. He bequeathed the park along with £300 to lay it out and erect a memorial monument, and a further £200 for upkeep.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Western Times - Friday 08 July 1921 Page 10 The "Frank Henson Giibbings" Park will be opened and War Memorial unveiled on Saturday 16th July, at 3 p.m. The Earl of Portsmouth, the Right hon. G. Lambert, M.P., Capt. L. Shaw and others have promised to take part in the unveiling of the War Memorials etc on the 16th inst. and the Park will be opened by My Arthur Gibbings, a Trustee of the donor. ---
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