
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Salford
- Town
- Salford
- County
- Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 February 1944
Attended by: HRH THE DUCHESS OF KENT
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 63775
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Current location
Formerly Salford Royal Hospital
The Royal Hospital
Wilton Place
Salford
Salford
Greater Manchester
M3 6FR
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 82622 98634
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Marble Tablet with incised inscription set into exterior wall of building. The nurses killed were from Cheadle, Corofin, Bury, Ennis, Athlone, St Helen's, Strabane, St Asaph, Stacksteads, Buckley, Middleton and Ulverston.
- Inscription
- THIS PANEL RECORDS/ THE NAMES OF FOURTEEN/ NURSES WHO LOST THEIR/ LIVES AT THE HOSPITAL/ DURING AN AIR RAID/ JUNE 2ND 1941/ FOURTEEN BEDS HAVE BEEN/ ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY/ TO COMMEMORATE THEIR/ DEVOTION TO DUTY./ (Names)/ THIS PANEL WAS UNVEILED BY/ H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT/ FEBRUARY 16TH 1944
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Burslem, Dorothy
Creighton, Vera
Haslam, Edith
Leonard, Bridget
Lowery, Margaret
Lynch, Maureen
Mccrossan, Philomena
Moffatt, Rose
Okell, Elsie
Owen, Margaret
See details for all 14 names - Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 14
Served and returned: 0
Died: 14
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, occupation, place of birth
Order of information: Occupation THEN surname
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Tablet
- 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
- 2012: Building now apartments.; 1993: Salford Royal Hospital closed.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
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