Memorial

Avon Tyres Company

This photograph shows the full memorial from a distance

Source: John Moore

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Current Location

Was in a garden to the side of the car park at Cooper Tires. NB. The memorial had previously been moved and its last position was 30m SE of the previously recorded site outside the old Avon Tyres building. From 2024, moved to a memorial garden 230 metres away on the other side of the River Avon, as the Coopers factory is now closed and the site due for re-development., Memorial Garden (Start of Riverside Walk, to King George V Park), Bath Road, Melksham, West Wiltshire, Wiltshire, SN12 6LN, England

OS Grid Reference

ST 90419 64107

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Names listed on this memorial

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Other memorial
WMR Reference Number: 24322
Description: 'Book' style copper figure mounted on low stone plinth.
Inscription: IN MEMORY OF AVON EMPLOYEES WHO FELL/ IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY/ 1914-1918/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 74
Died: 74
Information shown: Surname.
Order of names: Surname.

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 28
Died: 28
Information shown: Surname.
Order of names: Surname.

Conservation

Components

Memorial

Made from: Copper

Condition: Unknown