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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Panelling
- District
- Isles Of Scilly
- Town
- Tresco
- County
- Isles Of Scilly
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 35532
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Current location
St Nicholas' Church
Tresco
Isles Of Scilly
Isles Of Scilly
TR24 0QD
England
OS Grid Ref: SV 89219 15418
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Five Wooden Panels, each with the relevant regimental badge at top, one panel for each casualty
- Inscription
- PANEL ONE: FRANCIS ARTHUR / DORRIEN SMITH / MAJOR THE RIFLE BRIGADE / BORN 26TH AUGUST 1921 / KILLED IN NORMANDY / 20TH JUNE 1944 BURIED / AT BAYEUX PANEL TWO: LIONEL ROGER / DORRIEN SMITH / PILOT OFFICER RAFVR / 79TH SQUADRON RAF / BORN 2ND JUNE 1918 / MISSING BELIEVED KILLED / OVER ARRAS 20 MAY 1944 PANEL THREE: ALGERNON ROBERT / AUGUSTUS / DORRIEN SMITH / CAPTAIN 15TH 19TH ROYAL HUSSARS / BORN 5TH MAY ???? / MORTALLY WOUNDED / AT ARRAS / 20TH MAY 1940 / BURIED AT / LAPUGNOY FRANCE PANEL FOUR: GEOFFREY RICHARD / DORRIEN SMITH / CAPTAIN EAST KENT / REGIMENT AND THIRD / BN PARACHUTE / REGIMENT / BORN 9TH APRIL 1916 / KILLED AT ARNHEM / 20TH SEPTEMBER 1944 PANEL FIVE: HORACE ALGERNON / DORRIEN SMITH / CAPTAIN DUKE OF / CORNWALL'S LIGHT / INFANTRY AND / THIRD BATTALION / PARACHUTE / REGIMENT / BORN 30TH NOVEMBER 1919 / KILLED NEAR BOURNEMOUTH / 23RD APRIL 1942 BASE: IN MEMORY OF THE THREE SONS OF ARTHUR AND ELEANOR AND THE TWO SONS OF EDWARD AND FRANCIS / DORRIEN SMITH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Dorrien Smith, Algernon Robert Augustus
Dorrien Smith, Francis Arthur
Dorrien Smith, Geoffrey Richard
Dorrien Smith, Horace Algernon
Dorrien Smith, Lionel Roger
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, place of death, forenames, date of birth, relationships, place of burial, manner of death
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Panelling
Measurements: height 1800MM, width 3600MM
Materials: Wood
- Panelling
- 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
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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