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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Oxford
- Town
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), VC or GC Recipients
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28 May 1921
Attended by: Bishop of Exeter, Bishop of Newcastle
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31921
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Current location
On the wall of the Ante-Chapel.
Exeter College
Turl Street
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3DP
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 51476 06386
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- A large brass plaque mounted onto a marble backboard with the college shields as decoration and the dedication written in black lettering.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THE MEMEBERS OF THIS COLLEGE/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1914 - 1919/ (Names)/TANQUAM AURUM IN FORNACE PROBAVIT ILLOS DEUS ('God tried them as gold in the furnace')
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, Lionel Pilkington
Allpass, Henry Blythe King
Arnell, Reginald Brandt
Ashworth, Brian Wilding
Bailey, John Winckworth
Balleine, Cuthbert Francis
Bannatyne, Douglas Alexander
Barr, William Arthur
Bastard, William
Bayfield, Hubert Lockington
See details for all 139 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 140
Served and returned: 0
Died: 140
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, rank, regiment, date of death, place of death, occupation, decorations, year of matriculation.
Order of information: Year of matriculation and then surname - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, rank, regiment, date of death, place of death, occupation, decorations, additional.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 1350mm, width 1800mm
Materials: Brass - Tablet
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
- OXFORD - EXETER COLLEGE WW1
- WMO ID: 92402
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 25-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- Yes
Purpose: The College established an exhibition for the relatives of the fallen. - Reference
- Exeter College War Graves, exetercollegewargraves.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/roll-of-honour-09.pdf, accessed 30th August 2023
- The Times 24 Feb.1919 p.7 col.e; 26 May 1919 p.9 col.a; 21 May 1918 p.12 col.f
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