
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Nottingham
- Town
- Nottingham
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients, First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12-07-1923
Attended by: Mayor of Nottingham.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 68000
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Current location
Nottingham High School
Waverley Mount
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG7 4ED
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 56561 40919
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rectangular plaque with raised inscription below a cast wreath, with three embossed roses in the centre of the inscription, and with the RAF badge and High School Badge on the lower border.
- Inscription
- TO THE EVER GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF/ CAPTAIN ALBERT BALL/ V.C., D.S.O., M.C./ CROIX DE CHEVALIER./ LEGION D'HONNEUR./ RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST GEORGE./ OLD PUPIL OF THIS SCHOOL/ FROM 1907 TO 1910, WHO/ GAVE HIS LIFE FOR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR. 1914 - 1919.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ball, Albert
See details - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, Surname, Forename, Service, Honours
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, decorations, school dates.
Order of information: Undefined
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- 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
- Nottingham Evening Post. Thursday 12 July 1923.
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