
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Alnwick
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: November 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Dedicated
Date: 17th May 1925
Attended by: Rev Leonard Gethen, Vicar of Alnwick - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33444
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Current location
In north aisle
ST PAULS CHURCH
3 Prudhoe Villas
Alnwick
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1UP
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 18677 13061
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- WALL-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TABLET. BLACK LETTERING. In the top left hand corner is the badge of the Carr-Ellisons, in the top right hand corner is the badge of Northumberland Fusiliers, both in full colour. Lettering is incised and painted black, using Roman capitals throughout.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ OSWALD FENWICKE CLENNELL CARR-ELLISON,/ LIEUTENANT 2ND BATTALION 5TH FUSILIERS,/ SON OF THE LATE JOHN RALPH CARR-ELLISON ESQUIRE/ OF DUNSTON HILL IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM/ AND OF EDITH MAUDE MARY, HIS WIFE,/ KILLED IN ACTION AT LE CATELET, NEAR ST QUENTIN,/ 5TH OCTOBER 1918, WHIL COMMANDING HIS COMPANY./ AGED 23 YEARS/ FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT WITH ALL THY MIGHT/ CHRIST IS THY STRENGTH, AND CHRIST THY MIGHT.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Carr-ellison, Oswald Fenwicke Clennell
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height C 2FT 9IN, width C 3FT 3IN
Materials: Undefined
- 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
- Costs
Site: £100
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
Details: His Mother - Reference
- WMSA11.29
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