Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Allerdale
- Town
- Keswick
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1st May 1920
Attended by: MAJOR HAMLET RILEY DL, JP, LLB (CANTAB), Company Chairman - Rededicated
Date: 6th Mar 1972
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3996
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Current location
Located on rear face of Town War Memorial WMR 2206
Keswick Cenotaph
Station Street/Penrith Road corner
Keswick
Allerdale
Cumbria
CA12 4NB
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 26813 23492
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Keswick Railway Station (Closed)
Station Street
Keswick
Allerdale
Cumbria
CA12 4NQ
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 27049 23770
Denomination: Undefined
- Keswick Railway Station (Closed)
- Description
- Bronze plaque with crossed olive branches top centre, and inscription and names below. All cast in relief with a simple raised border.
- Inscription
- COCKERMOUTH KESWICK & PENRITH RAILWAY COMPANY/ IN PROUD & HONOURED MEMORY OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THIS COMPANY/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Gibson, J
Hebson, J W
Hetherington, W P
Mitchinson, M S
Notman, Wm
Watson, R
Youdale, J
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initials, forename, rank, unit
Order of information: By rank, THEN alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: depth 5mm, height 600mm, width 1215mm
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- Listing information
- Keswick War Memorial
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Company
- WMO ID: 171965
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 06-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Relocated to the rear face of Town War Memorial WMR 2206. Subject to weathering and oxidisation.
- Costs
Comments: Documents DB 111/49 and 64 at Carlisle Record Office give the cost
Memorial: £35/4- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Our website 2206 www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.2206/fromUkniwmSearch/1
- Local Publication/Booklet 60 / 8th May 1920 'Rails through Lakeland' 'The Mid-Cumberland & North Westmorland Herald'
- Railwaymen of Cumbria Remembered: A Roll of Honour in remembrance of those who gave their lives in the service of their Country during the Great War 1914-1918 by Peter Robinson 10-11 Published:Cumbrian Railways Association 2008
- West Cumberland Times 5/5/1920 page 1
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