Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- St Edmundsbury
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- County
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5178
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Current location
Contact the Beer Cafe at the Brewery for access.
Greene King Brewery Brew House
Westgate St
Bury St Edmunds
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk
IP33 1QT
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 85634 63782
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Plaque
- Inscription
- AUGUST 4TH 1914 THE GREAT WAR NOVEMBER 11TH 1918/ FRANCE, FLANDERS, GALLIPOLI, PALESTINE, EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, SALONIKA/ THIS TABLET IS TO COMMEMORATE THE NAMES/ OFTHE FOLLOWING EMPLOYEES OF GREENE KING AND/ SONS LIMITED, WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aldis, Stanley
Babbage, William
Barker, John
Bates, George William
Buckle, Sidney James
Burton, William
Day, Charles Albert
Farrant, Frederick William
Hunt, William
Hurst, Arthur
See details for all 21 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname,rank, forename, regiment, year died
Order of information: as above
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 991 mm, width 711 mm
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Plaque
- 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
- Greene King & Sons Brewery WW1
- WMO ID: 262542
- Condition: Good [last updated on 31-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- Greene King PLC
- Reference
- Account of unveiling: Bury Free Press 16 October.1920
- A Century of British Brewers plus plus 1890-2012 by Norman Barber, Mike Brown and Ken Smith p.141 Published:Longfield Brewery History Society 2012 Longfield, Kent Greene King & Sons Ltd was still independent in 2013.
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