
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Alnwick
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33436
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Current location
ST JAMES URC
Pottergate
Alnwick
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1JP
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 18442 13516
Denomination: United Reformed
- Description
- WALL-MOUNTED BRASS PLAQUE. INCISED BLACK LETTERING. REGIMENTAL BADGE AT TOP CENTRE. DECORATIVE BORDER. Lettering is sunk in casting and enamelled black using upper and lower case Gothic script. There is a border round the edge with an elaborate cross inside a circle in each corner. At the top is the badge of the Durham Light Infantry.
- Inscription
- IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ 2ND LIEUT GEORGE COCKBURN ROBERTSON/ 6TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. BELOVED YOUNGEST SON OF/ THE LATE WILLIAM AND JANE ROBERTSON OF THIS TOWN/ WHO FELL IN ACTION IN HIS 37 YEAR AT ARMIENTIERES/ JULY 21ST 1915
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Robertson, George Corkburn
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,age of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height C 12IN, width C 18IN
Materials: Brass
- 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
- 2LT G C ROBERTSON
- WMO ID: 90913
- Condition: Good [last updated on 08-09-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- WMSA11.26
- War Memorials Trust WM3494 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=522
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