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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- North Down
- Town
- Groomsport
- County
- Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9179
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Current location
Presbyterian Church
Groomsport
North Down
Down
BT20 5PU
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: NW 66840 37190
Denomination: Presbyterian
- Description
- Brass plaque
- Inscription
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LT. COL/ SIR WALTER DORLING SMILES/ CIE DSO DL MP/ DROWNED AT SEA ON MV PRINCESS VICTORIA/ JANUARY 31ST 1953
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,forename,manner of death,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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