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World War One / Re: Wiltshire Regiment Memorial Plaque in Salisbury Cathedral?
« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 21:33 BST (UK) »
FYI - I have now also posted this question on the Wiltshire county forum.
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Wiltshire / Wiltshire Regiment WW1 Memorial Plaque in Salisbury Cathedral?
« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 21:31 BST (UK) »
Many years ago (probably late 1980's) we viewed a memorial naming the Wiltshire Regiment soldiers who died in WW1. It was in Salisbury Cathedral, either on the cathedral wall inside or the cloister wall. Today we visited again and could not find the plaque anywhere, and none of the guides or the vergers (who had been there for at most 16 years) could recall it? My wife's great uncle Pte. Charles Simmonds was named on it. Are we going mad or can anyone confirm it was there? There are other Wiltshire plaques and regimental flags but none relating to WW1. Strangely there is one blank space on the wall with two plugged holes for screws but the cathedral insist nothing was ever there?
I have also posted this on the WW1 forum.
I have also posted this on the WW1 forum.
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World War One / Re: Wiltshire Regiment Memorial Plaque in Salisbury Cathedral?
« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 21:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you JenB for the link - have now registered and checked the Wiltshire Soldiers website but no mention.
Tony - thank you, followed your link but that is not the memorial at the Guildhall and our Pte. 35500 Charles Simmonds had no second name/initial.
We have visited his grave in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Prospect Hill near Joncourt north of St Quentin on several occasions. Sadly he died a few days before the end of the war in October 1918, aged 19. Strangely he was born and bred in Coventry and we have no idea how he came to join the Wiltshire Regiment. Of course this means he will not appear on any local Wiltshire memorials as one of 'men from this town'.
Tony - thank you, followed your link but that is not the memorial at the Guildhall and our Pte. 35500 Charles Simmonds had no second name/initial.
We have visited his grave in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Prospect Hill near Joncourt north of St Quentin on several occasions. Sadly he died a few days before the end of the war in October 1918, aged 19. Strangely he was born and bred in Coventry and we have no idea how he came to join the Wiltshire Regiment. Of course this means he will not appear on any local Wiltshire memorials as one of 'men from this town'.
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World War One / Re: Wiltshire Regiment Memorial Plaque in Salisbury Cathedral?
« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 20:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks Jebber and thanks for welcome. We walked across to the Regimental Museum in The Close at suggestion of the verger. Unfortunately they did not have the plaque and had no knowledge of its existence! We know we are not dreaming and think we took a photograph of it but as yet cannot find it (35mm so pre-digital). Hoping someone out there will remember it or even know where it went?
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World War One / Wiltshire Regiment Memorial Plaque in Salisbury Cathedral?
« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 20:17 BST (UK) »
Many years ago (probably late 1980's) we viewed a memorial naming the Wiltshire Regiment soldiers who died in WW1. It was in Salisbury Cathedral, either on the cathedral wall inside or the cloister wall. Today we visited again and could not find the plaque anywhere, and none of the guides or the vergers (who had been there for at most 16 years) could recall it? My wife's great uncle Pte. Charles Simmonds was named on it. Are we going mad or can anyone confirm it was there? There are other Wiltshire plaques and regimental flags but none relating to WW1. Strangely there is one blank space on the wall with two plugged holes for screws but the cathedral insist nothing was ever there?
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