Memorial

Tonbridge School - WW1, Book of Remembrance

Book of Remembrance

Source: Copyright Susan Featherstone

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Current Location

In the school's library store., Tonbridge School, High Street, Tonbridge, Tonbridge And Malling, Kent, TN9 1JP, England

TQ 59023 46988

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Type of Memorial: Roll of honour or book of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 72906
Description: An album of 38 leaves with six photographs to the page. It has a maroon binding with a plain line gilt embossing and worn gilt edges to the pages. No lettering on the cover. A digital copy of the same dimensions and binding is also kept in the library: a smaller copy of the album has been made and is displayed in a case near the original Corridor of Remembrance.
Inscription: Frontispiece - TONBRIDGE SCHOOL// BOOK OF/ REMEMBRANCE// 1914 - 1918//"Quo Fas et Gloria ducunt"* * Translation - Whither Right and Glory Lead

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 407
Died: 407
Information shown: Rank, initials, surname, service, date of schooling, age at death, manner of death, place of death, date of death, honours.
Order of names: Surname
Additional Information: 415 Old Tonbridgians and 3 Masters died in the Great War. All but 10 portraits are in the Roll of Honour. However, the online school list of the War Dead (see References) carries 422 names, 404 of whom have photos.

Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: Rank, initials, surname, service, date of schooling, age at death, manner of death, place of death, date of death.
Additional Information: The VC was posthumously awarded to Eric Stuart Dougall.

War: First World War - civilians
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: Rank, initials, surname, service, date of schooling, age at death, manner of death, place of death, date of death

Maker(s): Leslie S. Beale, Makers
Maintenance History: After WW1 the portrait photographs were displayed in a Corridor of Remembrance. Due to sun damage, the photographs were removed and mounted in a custom made album. This has 6 photographs to a page totaling 38 leaves. A digital copy of the same dimensions and binding is also kept in the library: a smaller copy of the album has been made and is displayed in a case near the original Corridor of Remembrance.