Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Carlisle
- Town
- Brampton
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Mr Jack (Architect)
Heward & Ridley (Builder) - Ceremony
- Foundation Stone
Date: 3 August1922
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Opened
Date: 6 September 1923
Attended by: William Perkins Bull Esq KC of Brampton (Ontario, Canada) and Newstead (Wimbledon, London) - Show More (1)
- Foundation Stone
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4290
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Current location
Brampton Memorial Hospital
Tarn Road
Brampton
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA8 1TW
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 53553 60690
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Cottage hospital with inscription over doorway. Large oak board with names arranged in five columns by parish in the new (1990) entrance hall. Replacement oak board with names arranged by parish in three columns in the corridor off the entrance hall.
- Inscription
- Outside: 1914 1918/ BRAMPTON & DISTRICT/ WAR MEMORIAL (Sic) Board: 1914 - 1918 World War I/ / "They died that we might live"/ (Names)/ Also commemorating those who gave their lives in World War II 1939-1945/ and subsequent conflicts
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Addison, J Gerald
Aikman, Jp
Armstrong, George
Armstrong, Gs
Armstrong, J
Armstrong, Tg
Atkinson, Gilbert W
Barnes, William A
Bell, Adam
Bell, Lewis
See details for all 144 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 144
Served and returned: 0
Died: 144
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename,decorations
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height c2400mm, width c3000mm
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- 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
- Brampton & District (Cumbria) War Memorial Hospital [covers Brampton, Castle Carrock, Cumrew, Cumwhitton, Farlam, Hayton, Lanercost, Nether Denton (Low Row), Talkin, Walton and Irthington]
- WMO ID: 191013
- Condition: Good [last updated on 22-02-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- In the original entrance hall is a large oak board with the names of casualties, which has been superseded by a smaller board which reproduces these names with a dedication to casualties of WW2 and later conflicts
- Costs
Comments: £2,000 received from administration of VAD during the war and the balance from various local sources
Memorial: c£3,000- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- 1997 history of the hospital written by the League of Friends- reference DSO 168/3 at Carlisle Archive Office
- First Annual Report of the Hospital, showing the rules, fees and all officials- Reference PR 60/153 at Carlisle Archive Office
- Carlisle Journal 3/10/1924 page 8c shows that the board with the names of the 161 fallen had not yet been installed.
- Carlisle Journal 7/9/1923 page 7e
- Carlisle Journal 18/6/1920 page 6a-b-Subscription List totalling £4634/11/5
- Carlisle Journal 30/4/1920 page 7e
- Carlisle Journal 29/4/1919 page 5b- regarding part funding from reserves of the Brampton VAD Hospital (£1,600) and Brampton Agricultural Society (£400)
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