Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Breckland
- Town
- Thetford
- County
- Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 31st January 1924
Attended by: Opened by Bridg.-Gen. Sir Hamilton Ballance
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 56468
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- Previous locations
- Thetford Cottage Hospital
Earls Street
Thetford
Breckland
Norfolk
IP24 2AD
England
OS Grid Ref: TL87186 83172
Denomination: Undefined
- Thetford Cottage Hospital
- Description
- Hospital wing and x-ray apparatus. Stone memorial tablet on the wall of the wing, with carved lettering. Hospital closed in 2006.
- Inscription
- This Wing was added to/ the Hospital and the X-Ray/ Apparatus installed by/ public subscription in Memory/ of the MEN of THETFORD/ who gave their Lives for/ King and Country in the/ GREAT WAR 1914-1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
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
- Hospital
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Hospital equipment
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Hospital
- 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
- History
- April 2008: Memorial tablet to be removed from building and stored by Thetford Town Council until the community has been consulted on where they would like to see the stone housed permanently.
- Costs
Comments: £1,685 14s + £189 12s 3d interest
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Thetford Town Council
- Reference
- War Memorials Archive Blog: ukniwm.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/the-useful-and-the-unusual/
- Anonymous, 'Thetford Cottage Hospital: A Useful War Memorial - The Value of the X-Ray', Bury Free Press, Saturday 02 February 1924.
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