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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cenotaph
- District
- Middlesbrough
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- County
- Cleveland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Messers Brierley & Rutherford (Architect)
Messers H Coxhead & Co Ltd (Builder) - Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9697
Current location
Entrance to Albert Park
Park Road
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS5 6LA
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 49207 19106
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Cenotaph, very similar to Southampton, with new gates and boundary wall for the Park which bears name plaques.
- Inscription
- Cenotaph: THE/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945 Plaques: (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbot, Percy
Abrams, William Thomas
Ackroyd, Herbert
Ackroyd, Walter
Adams, Ernest Victor
Adams, John
Adams, John
Adams, Robert
Adamson, Edgar
Adamson, Joseph
See details for all 3138 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 3137
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3137
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cenotaph
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Aberdeen - Wall
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Cenotaph
- Listing information
- CENOTAPH, WITH MEMORIAL GATES, GATEPIERS AND SCREEN WALLS
- 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
- Middlesbrough
- WMO ID: 113682
- Condition: Good [last updated on 20-05-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- May 2003. It was reported that George O'Key was listed on the memorial in mistake for his elder brother Frederick who died as a Japanese POW on the Burma Railway in 1944.
- Costs
Memorial: c £17,000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- The Times 30 May 2003
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Other website www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/html-files/middlesbrough/middlesbrough.htm
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