Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Oxford
Town
Oxford
County
Oxfordshire
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
60026

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Current location

In the cloisters.
Magdalen College
High St
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1
England

OS Grid Ref: SP 520 061
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Slate tablet with inscription in white lettering.
Inscription
Poet. Scholar. Soldier/ In/ memory of/ Ernst Stadler/ killed at/ Ypres/ 1914/ Mensch, werde Wesentlich (Translation of German: Man, became real - a line from one of his poems).
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Stadler, Ernst
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname,year died,place of death,forename,occupation,additional
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Slate
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • SONS OF THIS PLACE COMMEMORATION OF THE WAR DEAD IN OXFORD'S COLLEGES AND INSTITUTIONS by UTECHIN, PATRICIA 54 Source: Image Library UKNIWM Published:ROBERT DUGDALE 1998 OXFORD

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