King's School Gloucester WW1

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Reference WMO/139285

Address:

Pitt Street

Gloucester

GL1 2BG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Situated inside the school. It was created by the Headmaster’s sister in 1922, and is painted on a wooden panel and framed/glazed. The memorial was professionally renovated by the school in 2014 including repair of a crack that had developed in the woodwork (shrinkage crack), refreshing gilding around the frame and adding details previously missing (years and causes of death that were originally left as blank spaces). At the same time, a further five names discovered through research were added my means of creating a matching, smaller memorial in the same style which is mounted alongside.The names were originally painted in alphabetical order with space left at the bottom for additions. The name Basil Vassar Bruton was added out of alphabetical sequence by the original creator of the memorial shortly after it was completed, when that name became known as an additional casualty. The memorials are now situated at the top of the stairs to the main entrance to the main school building (the old Bishop's Palace building in Pitt Street), adjacent to the school's WW2 memorial and a brass plaque. The original 1922 memorial was originally situated in 'Big School', a building attached to the cathedral and now used as a gymnasium. The additional plaque with five extra names haas its own IWM Register entry 92520 but is included within this entry by WMO as it is clearly a continuation of the origtinal. Also, IWM gives another separate entry for the header board 92522/
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See attached photographs, one showing memorial in its original state, the second showing it after renovation. NB - the memorial is situated in a corridor and due to its glazed nature, clear photographs without glare are difficult to take.

See attached photograph. Full biographies of the persons named on the memorial may be found in 'The King's Men' by Robert Brunsdon, published by In The Footsteps Battlefield Tours (ISBN 978-1-908414-05-2).

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