LIVERPOOL AND DISTRICT MEAT AND ALLIED TRADES

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Reference WMO/108434

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Museum of Liverpool (part of collection, not currently on display)

Pier Head

Liverpool

L3 1DG

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Lettering: Raised
About the memorial: The memorial is not currently on display at the museum, but part of the museum's collection. (November 2022) Families of Liverpool men killed in World War II saw a memorial that had been missing for around 40 years unveiled at a city museum in June 2014. The Stanley Abattoir memorial, which honours 29 workers who died during the war, went on display at the Museum of Liverpool in 2013 after it was discovered for sale online. Lord Mayor Gary Millar, who officially unveiled the memorial, had tracked it down after he was told it was on the online auction site. After appealing for help on Facebook he was contacted by Tom Southern and together they traced the owner to Maghull. Cllr Millar said: “It ended up with us turning up on his door and saying give us back the war memorial and how dare you try and sell it!” He bought the tribute back for £400 and donated it to the city. Lily Schofield, 76, of Stoneycroft, was at the unveiling to see the tribute to her dad Frederick Smee. He died aged 29 while working as a volunteer fireman in Liverpool. She said: “He couldn’t join the Army for medical reasons. He was working in Overbury Street when a bomb dropped, but it didn’t detonate. “He went round and got everyone into the air raid shelters and then he went back. “Another bomb dropped and it detonated the first bomb as well. Ten people died including my dad. “I was four when he died and we lost our house in the bombing as well. “My mum was only 24 and had four children. She never really spoke about what had happened and it wasn’t until 1986 when I found out. “He was a hero really but he was never awarded a medal or anything.” Lily said she had been told about the memorial in the abattoir by her brother who took pictures of it, but she had never gone to see it. She added: “He had been a blood boy at the abattoir since he was 14 and then became a slaughterman. “It’s really nice for him to be recognised on something like this.” Twin brothers George and Alan Brophy, 74, said they used to see the memorial with their dad, Gunner George Brophy’s name on when they worked at the abattoir. George said: “I worked as a slaughterman and Alan was a meat trader. I used to go and see it and talk to him. It was somewhere to go to remember him. “When the abattoir was renovated I asked what was happening to it and no one had any idea.” The brothers, who were at the unveiling with younger sister Betty, said their dad had died as a Prisoner of War in Thailand. Alan added: “It is fantastic to have the memorial back and I’m sure there are a lot of families who haven’t made it here today but will be able to come and see it now. “It’s been a very emotional morning.”
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TRIBUTE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LIVERPOOL AND DISTRICT MEAT AND ALLIED TRADES WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1939-1945

Austin Ball Arthur Black George Brophy Jack Carr William Coggles Arthur Crook Cecil W Davies Thomas Dodd William Fennell Gordon Fraser Stanley Gunson John Lamb Ronald McCullock George O'Donnell Harold K Orme Joseph Percival George Porter McKenzie Read Joseph Richards Gilbert A Rodger Ernest Sawyer Frederick Smee William Street Thomas Taite Thomas Taylor Kenneth L Thomas Stanley White Jack Woods William Woods

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