Royal Albert Hospital

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Reference WMO/221297

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Lancaster City Museum

Regimental Gallery

Market Square

Lancaster

LA1 1HT

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
  • Paper Paper
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Roll of honour of staff and patients. Formerly In entrance of the Jamea Al Kauthar Islamic College for Girls, Ashton Road, Lancaster. This college took over the hospital building in 1996 and converted it into a boarding school. The memorial is 4’ by 3’6”, mounted in a dark/quartered oak frame with a pediment top incised in/Greek key pattern. Within, on a paler brown mount,/is a fine coloured painting with arched top. It depicts the Roll of Honour within a square arch whose incised pediment echoes that of the frame. The pillars supporting this inner pediment are swathed with scrolls labelled Justice, Liberty, Honour, Truth, Morality and Dedication. Two soldiers presenting arms guard the pillars, an Englishman on the left and a kilted Scot on the right. The lintel of the square arch is engraved ‘ROLL OF HONOUR'
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The Royal Albert Institution Committee Lieutenant Colonel the Right Hon. Richard Cavendish DC CB CMG, the King’s Own Royal Regiment; Major Richard Rigg OBE, the Border Regiment; Captain James Williamson Weaton KO Regt. Lancaster; Lance Bombardier Eustace Browning, Royal Garrison Artillery. The full names and units of 38 staff and 16 ex-patients follow, among them the 5 staff and the one patient who were killed. The square arch is surmounted by an evergreen-swathed Grecian memorial urn, flanked by female figures representing Truth (the Scribe) and Justice (swords and twin scales). A further 61staff who were ineligible for war service served as special constables and in other capacities.

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