Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Fenland
- Town
- March
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians, VC or GC Recipients
- Ceremony
- Presented
Date: Circa 1984
Attended by:
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
In the Booking Hall
4
March Railway Station
Station Approach
March
Fenland
Cambridgeshire
PE15 8SJ
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 41869 97846
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Framed and glazed handwritten Roll of Honour
- Inscription
- TO THE MEMORY OF BENJAMIN GIMBERT/ DRIVER AND JAMES NIGHTALL FIREMAN/ LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY/ BOTH WERE AWARDED THE GEORGE CROSS/ FOR EXTREME HEROISM WHEN A WAGON/ ON A TRAIN FULLY LADEN WITH BOMBS/ CAUGHT FIRE AND EXPLODED AT SOHAM/ STATION EARLY ON THE MORNING OF/ JUNE 2ND 1944
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Gimbert, Benjamin
Nightall, James
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, date of death, forename, manner of death, occupation, decorations, additional
Order of information: surname - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, date of death, forename, manner of death, occupation, decorations, additional
Order of information: surname
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: height 360mm, width 275mm
Materials: Wood, Glass - Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- Frame
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- The current Railway operator
- Reference
- Ely Standard 25 October 1984
- Our Fieldworker Reference BAK 86
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