WATFORD WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR

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Reference WMO/301181

Address:

Watford Museum

Benskin House

194 Lower High Street

Watford

WD17 2DT

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance
Materials:
  • Other Other
  • Paper Paper
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A beautiful, navy leather-bound roll of honour book with very detailed tooling on the front cover. Names are listed inside on 43 pages, including one supplement and one of corrections, together with preface pages. Each individual page is surrounded by a unique scroll pattern. The book was created by the staff and students of the (then) Watford School of Art in 1922. The book is in the archive of the museum, which is located at Benskin House, formerly a property of the former Benskin's Brewery. The museum is now (as of late-2023) temporarily closed pending a move to Watford Town Hall in 2025.
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Front cover: 1914 1918 / [top scroll]: WATFORD / ROLL OF HONOUR / [bottom scroll]: PRO PATRIA MORI. Preface: ROLL OF HONOUR / THIS ROLL / OF HONOUR / COMMEMORATES / THE NAMES OF / THOSE WHO WHEN / NEEDED WENT FORTH / TO DO THEIR DUTY TO / KING AND COUNTRY / DURING THE / GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 / WRITTEN & ILLUMINATED / BY THE STAFF AND / STUDENTS OF THE / WATFORD SCHOOL OF ART / IN THE YEAR 1922. / THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOR EVER. / Back cover: THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT / GROW OLD: / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS / CONDEMN. / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE / MORNING / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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