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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Memorial homes / Alms houses
- District
- Havering
- Town
- Hornchurch
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1928
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 48021
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Current location
The cottages are located at the junction of Station Lane
and Suttons Avenue. There is a plaque on a brick pillar at the gate to the memorial cottages.
114-124
Cornwell Cottages
Station Lane
Hornchurch
Havering
Greater London
RM12 6LX
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 54021 86523
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Three pairs of brick-built cottages set in own grounds bounded by a low wall and railings with entrance gate. Plaque on gate-post at left (originally in brass but was stolen and replaced). Each house has three bedrooms, sitting room, dining room, kitchen and coal-house (later converted to bath-rooms). Each has a small garden at rear.
- Inscription
- NATIONAL MEMORIAL/ TO/ JOHN CORNWELL V.C./ BOY (1ST CLASS) NO J42563/ H.M.S. CHESTER./ DIED OF WOUNDS./ BATTLE OF JUTLAND/ MAY 31 1916.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Cornwell, John
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, decorations, rank, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Plaque
Measurements: depth 10mm, height 575mm, width 490mm
Materials: Bronze
- Memorial
- 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
- J Cornwell VC
- WMO ID: 253872
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 19-09-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Site: £850
Memorial: £6,344-1-7- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Administered by trustees, Brentwood, Essex.
- Reference
- Evans, Brian. Bygone Hornchurch & Upminster. Chichester, Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 1990.
- "Question. What became of six cottages built for retired seamen in Hornchurch, Essex, in memory of Jack Cornwell, who won a VC as a boy seaman in World War 1?" Daily Mail, 26 June 2002, p.53.
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