Memorial

Horncastle War Memorial Centre

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Current Location

Formerly Horncastle War Memorial Hospital, Horncastle War Memorial Centre, North Street, Horncastle, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, LN9 5DX, England

TF 26066 69822

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Type of Memorial: Hospital / Clinic
WMR Reference Number: 20409
Description: War memorial hospital with two dedicatory engraved brass plaques located in the entrance doorway. At an unknown date the word 'FORMERLY' was added above the words 'WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL' in black with grey shadowing, together with a tablet each side of the entrance porch incised with gold lettering. Inside the building is a tablet incised with black lettering commemorating the opening as the 'Horncastle War Memorial Centre'
Inscription: Opening ceremony tablet: The Horncastle/ War Memorial Centre/ opened by / Lt. Col & Mrs J. Dymoke / on the 3rd of June / 2002 // Left hand porch entrance tablet: They shall grow / not old as we / that are left grow / old. Age shall not / weary them / nor the years / condemn. / At the going down / of the sun and in / the morning we will / remember them. // Right hand porch entrance tablet: When you go / home and tell them of / us, and say - / "For your tomorrow / we gave our / today." // WW2 plaque: IN MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD / BELONGING TO HORNCASTLE / WHO FELL IN THE / 1939/45 WAR. / (REGIMENTS / NAMES) // WW1 plaque: IN MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD / BELONGING TO THE PARISH OF HORNCASTLE WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. / (REGIMENTS / NAMES)

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 114
Died: 114
Information shown: Officer rank, forename initials, surname, regiment or service // then lower ranks listed by regiment or service, rank, forename initials, surname, decorations
Order of names: Officer rank // then regiment, rank, surname
Additional Information: 11 officer ranks head list

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 30
Died: 30
Information shown: Regiment or service, rank, forename initials, surname, decorations
Order of names: Regiment, rank, surname