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Location
Avenue Road, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9UU See map on www.streetmap.co.uk National Inventory of War Memorials Record Link : NIWM Reference 40750 English Heritage Listing Status The Freshwater Memorial Hall is not listed by English Heritage. Description The Memorial Hall was originally built as a Territorial Drill Hall. See Description on Freshwater Parish website The Hall contains a Memorial plaque to officers and men of the Royal Field Artillery, 1st/5th Hants Howitzer Battery (Territorial Forces) This Portland stone plaque was designed and executed by Mr J W Newman of Freshwater, and unveiled in June 1923. In 1930 Flt Lt Ernest Drudge located a gun trail, part of one of the gun carriages, and returned it to Freshwater. In November 2006 the memorial was rededicated in memory of the men who died, and an additional plaque has been erected, which describes the gun trail. [Memorial not visited by Memorials in Isle of Wight team] An almost identical plaque is located at the Newport Drill Hall |
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Memorial
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Inscription
5TH HANTS HOWITZER BATTERY
THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 ADVANCE TO AMARAH, NASIRYIEH, CAPTURE OF KUT CTESIPHON AND RETIREMENT TO KUT SIEGE OF KUT 3-12-15 TO 29-4-16 ------ names as given below ------ ALSO IN MEMORY OF 25 SOLDIERS ATTACHED TO THE BATTERY IN MESOPOTAMIA Names as recorded
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