
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Locomotive / Train
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Alnwick
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients, First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Presented
Date: 1967
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61367
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Current location
The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
The Abbots Tower
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1NG
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 180 130
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Place of construction.
Crewe Railway Works
Crewe
Crewe And Nantwich
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Place of construction.
- Description
- London Midland & Scottish Railway Patriot Class 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive with two curved nameplates mounted above the leading driving wheels.
- Inscription
- PRIVATE E. SYKES,V.C.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Sykes, E
See details - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,decorations, initial of forename
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forename, rank, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Locomotive
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Locomotive
- 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
- Built Crewe Works 1933, originally carrying the number 6015 , from the previous locomotive of this name (Our ref. 61359). Renumbered 5537, and 45537 by British Railways. Withdrawn 9 June 1962, and scrapped at British Railways Crewe Works Sep. 1962.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- Wikipedia LMS Patriot Class
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