
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Kerrier
- Town
- Redruth
- County
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9330
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Current location
Redruth Methodist Church
Wesley Street
Redruth
Kerrier
Cornwall
TR15 2ES
England
OS Grid Ref: SW 70125 42073
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- External wall monument with base and pediment flanked by two red granite columns. In Centre of Pediment is shield. Whole is in covered area in front of Wesley Chapel/Redruth Methodist Church. Lettering in black.
- Inscription
- THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ TO/ THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ HONOURED AND REVERED MEMORY OF THE/ GALLANT SONS OF THIS CHURCH AND/ SUNDAY SCHOOL WHO DIED FOR THEIR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)/ ALSO/ TO THEIR BRAVE COMRADES THE MEN OF REDRUTH/ AND DISTRICT WHO LIKEWISE LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS/ CHURCH WHO SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES/ DURING THE WAR ARE INSCRIBED ON THE MEMORIAL/ ERECTED INSIDE THE CHURCH/THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES EVEN UNTO DEATH
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bath, John
Bawden, Bertie
Boucher, Joseph
Bray, Charles
Broad, Tom
Congdon, W T
Eddy, W
Francis, Ben
Gould, T
Harris, Frank
See details for all 28 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 28
Served and returned: 0
Died: 28
Exact count: no
Information shown: Rank,forename, initials, surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Red - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Column
- Listing information
- REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Methodist Church Council.
- Reference
- Cornwall Family History Society, www.cornwallfhs.com/cornwallswarhistory/maps/war-memorials-2/redruth-methodist/, accessed 11 June 2023
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