Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Memorial homes / Alms houses
- District
- Hounslow
- Town
- Chiswick
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Opened
Date: 17 July 1922
Attended by: Unknown - Rededicated
Date: 11 November 2010
Attended by: HRH The Countess of Wessex, GCVO - Show More (1)
- Opened
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 63243
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Current location
Chiswick War Memorial Homes
Burlington Lane
Chiswick
Hounslow
Greater London
W4 3EU
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 20623 77221
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Homes for Disabled Ex-Servicemen and Women. Consists of 36 flats, cottages. Outside there is a small garden with rails and a tablet built in the wall. The nowy-headed tablet has two brick columns on each side, with a ball on top.
- Inscription
- Tablet on the wall: CHISWICK/ MEMORIAL OF THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 1918/ HOMES OF REST/ FOR CHISWICK DISABLED MEN OF/ HIS MAJESTY FORCES AND THEIR/ FAMILIES AND FOR THE DEPENDANTS/ OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ OPENED 17TH JULY 1922. Additional tablet: THIS MEMORIAL WAS RE-DEDICATED BY/ HRH THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX GCVO/ ON 11TH NOVEMBER 2010/ FOLLOWING THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE/ CHISWICK WAR MEMORIAL HOMES.
- 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
- Building
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone, Brick - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Building
- 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
- Originally dated from 1922. Rebuilt and extended in 2010.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Chiswick War Memorial Committee. - Sponsorship
- Other
- Responsibility
- Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation (Charity No. 207939-1)
- Reference
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