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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Oswestry
- Town
- Oswestry
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 57355
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Current location
Oswestry Grammar School Chapel
Upper Brook Street
Oswestry
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY11 2TL
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 28398 29265
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Organ which was subsequently restored in memory of Ian Buchanan
- Inscription
- In memory of Colonel Fredrick Burnaby and in memory of Ian Buchanan, missing, presumed killed in the RAF in WW2 (Exact wording unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Buchanan, Ian
Burnaby, Frederick
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
- Components
- Organ or Organ part
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Organ or Organ part
- 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
- 1940's: organ needed rebuilding.
- Costs
Comments: A fund was started for repairs to the organ in the 1940's at one of the O.O. Dinners. Most was paid by Mrs Buchanan, in memory of her son, Ian, who had been missing, presumed killed in the RAF in WWII.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- A History of Oswestry School by Oakley, R R 122; 128-131; 256
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