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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- North Hertfordshire
- Town
- Royston
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 66044
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Current location
Brooklands
46 Kneesworth St/green Drift
Royston
North Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
SG8 7AL
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 355 409
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Blue plaque with dedicatory inscription.
- Inscription
- Exact inscription unknown, but the blue plaque by the front door records that it was once the home of Capt. Harold Ackroyd. His name appears at the top of the list of the local dead from the 1914-18 Great War on the Royston War Memorial. The plaque tells that he was Royston's VC
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Plaque
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- 'Dr. Ackroyd, of Royston, Killed', The Blue Plaques of Royston, F John Smith, p. 26.
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