North Savernake Sidings


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Reference WMO/300840

Address:

High Walls

New Road

Marlborough

SN8 1AA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • 20th Century Wars
About the memorial: Grey stone tablet set at an angle atop a stone brick column. Inscription in blue capital lettering. The badges of the police, Great Western Railway, National Fire Service, Royal Pioneer Corps and Royal Army Ordance Corps are included. Although the event was an accident in peacetime, the casualties were clearly engaged upon activities related to military preparedness, as they were killed by the explosion of 200 tons of high explosived. The event occurred at Cadley, a few miles south of Marlborough.
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ON JANUARY 2ND 1946 DURING AMUNITION LOADING AT THE. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY'S NORTH SAVERNAKE SIDINGS NEAR/ CADLEY IN SAVERNAKE FOREST, A SERIES OF EXPOLOSIONS TOOK/ THE LIVES OF EIGHT BRITISH SOLDIERS, DESTROYING 27 RAILWAY/ WAGONS AND DETONATING 200 TONS OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES./ SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO MARLBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WAS ONLY AVERTED/ DUE TO THE HEROISM SHOWN BY SOLDIERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, FIREMEN OF THE NATIONAL/ FIRE SERVICE AND STAFF OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY./ TOGETHER THESE MEN RISKED DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURY TO PREVENT THE DETONATION OF MORE THAN/ 1000 TONS OF ADDITIONAL EXPLOSIVES LOADED ON WAGONS STABLED IN THE SIDINGS./ THE FOLLOWING WERE RECOGNISED FOR THEIR GALLANTRY/ (Names)/ THE FOLLOWING MEN LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE INCIDENT/ (Names)/ THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THE EIGHT LIVES LOST, THE GALLANTRY AWARDS GIVENAND THE/ CONTRIBUTION OF ALL THOSE INVOLVED IN AVERTING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO MARLBOROUGH

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