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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Nottingham
- Town
- Nottingham
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 October 1921
Attended by: Major-General the Hon EJ Montagu-Stuart-Wortley CB CMG DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 27408
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Current location
St Mary's Church
High Pavement
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 1HN
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 576 61 39651
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Figures of ten infantrymen being led by an officer in bas relief and set into a marble backboard. The city crest is in bronze below.
- Inscription
- THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NON-COM OFFICERS AND PRIVATES OF THE THREE ROBIN HOOD BATTALIONS OF THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS WHO AT THE CALL OF KING & COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, FACED PERIL, ENDURED HARDNESS & GAVE THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE. THEIR LABOURS, THEIR PRIVATIONS, THEIR SUFFERINGS AND THEIR VALOUR CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN (EXACT LINE SPACING UNKNOWN) Recovered 06.02.2023 from https://www.stmarysnottingham.org/visit-us/explore-st-marys/ has a photograph of the memorial
- 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
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- 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
- ROBIN HOOD BNS, SHERWOOD FORESTERS WW1 MEMORIAL
- WMO ID: 146006
- Condition: Good [last updated on 10-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Nottinghamshire Archives, PR 25.983/14. St Mary, Faculty dated 16 March 1921
- 148 BW 1-8
- Nottingham Evening Post, 17 October 1921
- Nottingham Evening Post, 15 October 1921
- Nottingham Evening Post, 9 December 1919
- Nottingham Evening Post, 21 March 1919
- Nottinghamshire Archives, PR 28,878/26. Order of Service: dedication of memorial to Robin Hood Battalions
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