Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Town
- Wallingford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31791
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Current location
On the wall in the Caller's Office.
Royal Mail Wallingford Delivery Office
Lupton Road
Wallingford
South Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
OX10 9WA
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 59875 88939
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- The Post Office
Market Place
Wallingford
South Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 590 890
Denomination: Undefined
- The Post Office
- Description
- WALL-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TABLET. INCISED LETTERING. WOODEN SURROUND.
- Inscription
- IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS/ OF THE WALLINGFORD POST OFFICE STAFF/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (Names)/ THEY DID THEIR DUTY EVEN UNTO DEATH
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Beale, F
Broadway, T W
Newman, E T
Sandall, W
Swell, C H
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Tablet
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- D Beasley and A Russell:'Wallingford at War' (2010) p.121: photograph of memorial and biographical details of the fallen.
- British Postal Museum and Archive Mem340 catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk
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