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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Dudley
- Town
- Oldswinford
- County
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 48091
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Current location
St Marys Church
Rectory Road
Oldswinford
Dudley
West Midlands
DY8 1HA
England
OS Grid Ref: SO 9080083180
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Scroll shaped marble tablet on a nowy headed marble backboard. Regimental crest at the top centre of the backboard.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORIAM/ TROOPER HENRY WARDALE KING/ WORCESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY/ YOUNGER SON OF/ J. WARDALE & JANE KING/ OLDSWINFORD HOUSE/ KILLED IN ACTION AT KATIA, EGYPT/ APRIL 23, 1916, AGED 20./ HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- King, Henry Wardale
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Backboard
- 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 - Reference
- Pamphlet; Peacock Roy, The Memorials of the Great War at St Marys Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Marlborough Print, 43 Cradley Road, Cradley Heath (201)E" (2001) pp4,
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