Memorial

Walsall Corporation Employees WW1

Walsall Corporation WW1 Roll of Honour

Source: Copyright West Midlands Police

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TOWN HALL, Leicester Street, Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 1PT, England

SP 01484 98649

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 38585
Description: Rectangular wooden board, with the Corporation crest top-centre. The inscription is in gold-painted lettering, and lists employees from the following departments who died: Town Clerk's, Public Works, Borough Treasurer's, Electric Supply, Gas, Tramways, Police and Education. (They included British Red Cross VAD Nurse Gertrude Bytheway who died 31/12/1917 when the ship on which she was travelling, HMS Osmanieh, was torpedoed).
Inscription: COUNTY BOROUGH OF WALSALL / THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / ROLL OF HONOUR / OF CORPORATION EMPLOYEES WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / (NAMES) / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / THIS MEMORIAL WAS PROVIDED BY THE WALSALL / CORPORATION & WAS UNVEILED ON THE 12 JULY 1922 / H. HOWARD TUCKER / MAYOR.

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 54
Died: 54
Information shown: Corporation Department. initials, surname, rank, military unit
Order of names: Grouped by Department

Board

Made from: Wood - Oak

Condition: Good

Birmingham Daily Gazette 13/7/1920 (page 3) reported: "A COUNCIL MEMORIAL. At Walsall Councill House yesterday, Sir E. T. Holden unveiled a tablet in the main corridor in memory of 55 men and one woman (Miss Bytheway, a school teacher) employed by the Corporation, who died while serving in the war. Miss Bytheway was a voluntary nurse, and was drowned owing to the ship for the East, on which she was a passenger being torpedoed". https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19200713/055/0003# (N.B. To clarify re the ambiguous wording of the report, the memorial listed 55 casualties in total, including Miss Gertrude Bytheway).