Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Sefton
- Town
- Southport
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 87934
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- Previous locations
- The Monument
London Square
Southport
Sefton
Merseyside
PR8 1AA
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 33705 17381
Denomination: Undefined
- The Monument
- Description
- VC tablets set in the pavement in front of the obelisk of the Southport Monument (WMR 1228)
- Inscription
- 1:For Valour/ Private/ Richard Masters/ Army Service Corps/ 9th April 1918 2: For Valour/ Captain Harold Ackroyd/ Royal Army Medical Corps/ 31st July - 1st August 1917
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ackroyd, Harold
Masters, Richard
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, unit, date of action
Order of information: Rank, forename, surname, unit, date of action
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablets
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
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