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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Vale Of White Horse
- Town
- Cumnor
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31332
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Current location
Church adjacent to High Street / Abingdon Road junction,
St. Michael's Church
High Street
Cumnor
Vale Of White Horse
Oxfordshire
OX2 9PE
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 46155 04136
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Organ with names inscribed on a panel set beneath the pipes. Gold coloured painted lettering on a black background.
- Inscription
- BUILT TO GOD'S GLORY THIS / ORGAN HONOURS THE MEN / OF / CUMNOR WHO DIED IN WAR / 1939 - 1945 / (11 NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Archer, James Richard
Bateman, Basil Richard
Cox, Herbert
Cox, John Desmond
Fletcher, Alexander William
Hansen, Jack Hans
Harber, Luke Halford
Porter, Christopher Waltham
Smith, Francis Harry
Walker, Leslie Edward
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, service type, regiment
Order of information: Surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- 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
- St Michael's Church Organ
- WMO ID: 256537
- Condition: Good [last updated on 29-02-2020]
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- History
- 1993 : File contains correspondence from former IWM director Noble Frankland highlighting the poor condition of the organ's electrical system and the need to raise £25,000 to restore.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Weblink to Berkshire War Memorials, Cumnor page. www.berkswm.org/BWM6017.html
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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