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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Cherwell
- Town
- Banbury
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 72601
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Current location
The memorial is located in the main sorting room.
Banbury Delivery Office
Merton Street
Banbury
Cherwell
Oxfordshire
OX16 4AA
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 46207 40563
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- wall mounted in entrance vestibule
57-58
Post Office
High Street
Banbury
Cherwell
Oxfordshire
OX16 5LB
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 45478 40490
Denomination: Undefined
- wall mounted in entrance vestibule
- Description
- Paper Hand drawn Roll of Honour in glazed wooden frame. Covers men from Banbury, Brackley, Buckingham, Chipping Warden, Edge Hill, Farnborough, King's Sutton, Preston Bissett, Shenington, Sibford Gower,. Somerton.Upper Tadmarton, Westbury & Wroxton.
- Inscription
- Roll of honour. For King and country 1914-1918. Names of those who responded to the call and joined His Majesty's forces from the post office in Banbury and district (dedication names). In reverent memory of those who laid down their lives in the service of (dedication names). Their name liveth for evermore.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ackerman, B L E
Allen, A R
Archer, B Junior
Ballard, T W
Barber, G H
Battley, W J
Berry, E
Blencowe, A
Bolton, J B
Bradbury, W E
See details for all 86 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 86
Served and returned: 76
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: home town, surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: home town THEN surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Roll of honour
- 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 - Responsibility
- Royal Mail
- Reference
- "Banbury & District War Memorial." Royal Mail, www.royalmail.com/memorials/memorial/banbury-district-war-memorial. Accessed 27 June 2024.
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