Memorial

Tewkesbury Grammar School - WW1

Tewkesbury Boys' Grammar School

Source: Sam Eedle

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Current Location

Town Hall, 18, High Street, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5AL, England

SO 89300 32836

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 93820
Description: Wall-mounted, rectangular brass plaque on a dark wooden backboard. Inscribed foliate border across top and left hand-side with the inscribed school crest in top, left corner. The names are in a single column to the right in black lettering.
Inscription: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE FOLLOWING OLD BOYS/ OF THIS SCHOOL WHO DIED/ FOR KING & COUNTRY IN THE/ EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919./ (Names)/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."

Plaque

Made from: Brass

Condition: Good

Tewkesbury Register - Saturday 29 November 1947 Page 1 OLD THEOCSBRIAN SOCIETY. IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN BISHOP'S ADDRESS ---
Tewkesbury Register - Saturday 08 November 1919 Page 5 MEMORIAL to OLD BOYS of Tewkesbury Grammar School. (list of names) ---
Tewkesbury Grammar School http://www.bitbarn.co.uk/tgs58/ Year Group 1958 onwards
Old Theocsbrians https://oldtheocsbrians.org.uk/
Tewkesbury Register - Saturday 20 August 1955 Page 5 War Memorial For Remembrance After the erection of the Tewkesbury Grammar School War Memorial, bearing the names of the old boys who fell in the last war, and Its dedication at the end of 1947 there was a small sum of money left when expenses had been met. This money was used to buy three teak wood scats. which were placed in the garden in front of the school last month. Each has carved along the back of the seat 1914-18. Old Theocsbrians. 1939-45"