
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Locomotive / Train
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Alnwick
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients, First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1936
Attended by: Private Wilfred Wood VC, at Stockport
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 80970
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Current location
The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
The Abbots Tower
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1NG
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 180 130
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Crewe Railway Works
Nantwich Road
Crewe
Crewe And Nantwich
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Crewe Railway Works
- Description
- Locomotive Nameplate- see our reference 61366 for details of the Locomotive
- Inscription
- PRIVATE W WOOD V.C.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Wood, W
See details - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initial of forename, rank, decorations
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
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
- Private W Wood VC, LMS Locomotive 5536 2nd Nameplate
- WMO ID: 266933
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 09-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Cheshire Ancestor Volume 49, Number 2 December 2018 page 32
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