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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Fenland
- Town
- Wimblington
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Mr R Maclean Leach, 3 Stewards Passage, Cambridge (Architect)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 22 June 1920
Attended by: Rev RB Hill, Rector of Wimblington
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3491
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Current location
On front wall of Hall
Parish Hall
Addison Rd
Wimblington
Fenland
Cambridgeshire
PE15 0NA
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 41441 92222
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Stoner Primitieve Methoidist Chapel
Stoner
Cambridgeshire
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Methodist
- Stoner Primitieve Methoidist Chapel
- Description
- Brass plaque on green Irish marble backboard. letters engraved and infilled in black
- Inscription
- THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY / THE PARISHIONERS OF WIMBLINGTON / IN LOVING AND REVERENT MEMORY OF / THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, Jack
Aveling, Charles E
Barnes, George W
Bradshaw, John W
Bradshaw, Joseph
Bradshaw, Thomas W
Cox, Percy B
Cutteridge, Alfred J
Davison, John W
Fisher, Fred
See details for all 25 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 25
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,regiment,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: height 965MM, width 635MM
Materials: Marble - Green
- 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
- History
- 2001: Plans ahead to remove name of Pte B Cox as he did not die in WW1
- Costs
Memorial: NIL
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- BAK 33
- Cambridgeshire Times; 15 Dec 2000
- Cambridgeshire Times 25 June 1920 p5 Full report of dedication of all Wimblington Memorials
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