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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Lamp or lighting
- District
- Bristol
- Town
- Avonmouth
- County
- Avon
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MESSRS HARRY HEMS & SONS (Manufacturer)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 20 Dec 1921
Attended by: ARCHDEACON OF BRISTOL
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 7362
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- Previous locations
- St Andrew's Church (Destroyed)
Avonmouth Road
Avonmouth
Bristol
Avon
BS11 9FE
England
OS Grid Ref: ST 51621 78238
Denomination: Church of England
- St Andrew's Church (Destroyed)
- Description
- Church electric lighting with associated plaques.
- Inscription
- Main inscription not known, but on pedistal: "LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS IN CHRIST 1914-1918." On brass plaque: THE INSTALLING OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM IN THIS CHURCH IN OCTOBER 1921 WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLACING OF THE OAKEN TABLET TO COMMEMORATE THE MEN OF THE PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918.
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 44
Served and returned: 0
Died: 44
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass, Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- History
- DESTROYED 1941
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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