Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- Town
- Swindon
- County
- Wiltshire
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 82668
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Current location
STEAM museum of the Great Western Railway Works
Fire Fly Works
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN2 2EY
OS Grid Ref: SU 14277 84962
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Wooden board (as seen per photographs) bolted to a brick wall by the four corners. Mounted to the wooden back board is the white marble aesthetic plaque again fixed by the four corners.
- Inscription
- 19 C SHOP./ 1939-1945./ C. THOMAS OCKWELL, R.M,/ KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE./ ARTHUR HALL,/ KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION./SINCERELY REMEMBERED/ BY THEIR SHOPMATES.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initial (for one) forename, surname, manner of death
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Condition
- 19c Great Western Railway Shop WWII
- WMO ID: 203022
- Condition: Good [last updated on 31-03-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
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