Memorial
Birkdale Cemetery - V Horsfall
The Gravestone
Source: Copyright David Long
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Current Location
Birkdale Cemetery, Liverpool Road (A565), Birkdale, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, PR8 3BN, England
OS Grid Reference
SD 32136 12928
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Addition to gravestone
- WMR Reference Number
- 94457
- Description
- Flat-topped Portland stone headstone with raised square shoulders, beneath each of which a lily is carved. The inscription is leaded.
- Inscription
- .../ Also Vernon, dearly loved son of the above,/ who gave his life at Thiepval, Sept. 3rd 1916,/ Aged 23 years./ "Ours still in Memory & Love."
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 1
- Died
- 1
- Information shown
- Family name, forename, manner, place, and date of death, age
- Order of names
- As above
- Custodian
- Sefton Council
Components
- Gravestone
Made from: Stone - Portland
Condition: Good