Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Croydon
- Town
- Addiscombe
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 761
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Current location
West wall of main entrance
Archbishop Tenison's CE High School
Selbourne Road
Addiscombe
Croydon
Greater London
CR0 5JX
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 33601 65104
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Selsdon Rd
Croydon
Croydon
Greater London
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Selsdon Rd
- Description
- Three tablets. The larger tablet has the school badge at centre top and the inscriptions with some of the names. A pair of smaller tablets have other names.
- Inscription
- Larger tablet: IN MEMORY OF OLD TENISONIANS WHO FELL IN THE /GREAT WAR //(Names) // "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" /PUPILS OF DAVID A MCADAM, MASTER, MAY 1883 TO DEC 1923 Both smaller tablets: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Acock, S W
Aldous, H J
Ashby, C
Aveline, A H
Baker, A
Baker, A R
Baker, E
Bradley, E
Brown, A H
Byfield, H
See details for all 58 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 58
Served and returned: 0
Died: 58
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: depth 5CM, height 51CM, width 150CM
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablets
- 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
- SCHOOL GOVERNORS
- Reference
- The school log book record, 20 October 1919
- At the Going Down of the Sun... An Account of Croydon's War Memorials. Author Ronald COX. Published 1992. -- Reference S2
- Purley in the Great War - sites.google.com/site/purleyandthegreatwar/local-memorials - Accessed 28 October 2020
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