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WW1 Scroll of Honour
« on: Sunday 30 March 08 14:09 BST (UK) »
Purely for anyone's interest - I'm attaching a photo of the Scroll of Honour for my great-uncle 'Jack' Garfield.
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 30 March 08 14:35 BST (UK) »
Nice one G....

Have you got the "Death Penny" as well???
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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 30 March 08 14:46 BST (UK) »
I take it you mean the bronze wall plaque? No, but my nephew has it. Was this what you meant, I haven't heard that name before?
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 30 March 08 14:47 BST (UK) »
Yes that's the one...

Quite common parlance for them though....Even on EvilBay...
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 30 March 08 15:23 BST (UK) »
I don't know much about the plaques or the scrolls- were they WW1 only and were they given to every family?

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Ambrose; Llandilofawr, Pennsylvania.
Grindley; Llandilofawr, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington DC.
Rees(e); Pennsylvania.
Lewis, Llandilofawr.

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 30 March 08 16:39 BST (UK) »
I believe they were given to the parents/closest relatives of those men who were killed in action in WW1. I don't know about WW2.
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 30 March 08 17:14 BST (UK) »
A similar scroll was issued, but no death penny...
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 30 March 08 17:24 BST (UK) »
Thank you, I wondered because my uncle died in WWII and I didn't think there was a penny in the family - I must ask what happened to the scroll.

Bev.
Ambrose; Llandilofawr, Pennsylvania.
Grindley; Llandilofawr, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington DC.
Rees(e); Pennsylvania.
Lewis, Llandilofawr.

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Re: WW1 Scroll of Honour
« Reply #8 on: Monday 31 March 08 00:23 BST (UK) »
Did they have to be killed in action for their family to receive the scroll?
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston
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