Oorlogsmonument Norwich Cathedral - Royal Engineers

In Norwich Cathedral, bevestigd aan een kloostermuur, is een monument voor de gevallen leden van het 34th (Norfolk) Divisional Royal Engineers - 207th, 208th en 209th Field Companies en 34th Signals onderdeel. Het monument is ontworpen door Hubert Alexander Miller. De letters zijn gegraveerd in reliëf op een messing plaquette.

Inscriptie:
"Four companies were raised in the spring of 1915, by Dr Gordon Munn, Lord Mayor of Norwich and were billeted in this hall. They crossed to France, under the command of Col. A. C. MacDonnell R.E. in Jan. 1916, and were in action at the Battle of the Somme, (La Boiselle, July 1st; Bazentin-Le-Petit, Aug. 1916, Battle of Arras, Point du Jour April 9th, River Scarpe April 1917. Local attacks at Fampoux (Greenland Hill June) and Hargicourt (Cologne Farm Sept 1917), the Battle of Ypres (Poelcappelle Oct 1917) and the German Offensive (Croiselles Mar 21st Armentieres April 9th 1918). They attacked with the French Army (Soissons August 1918) were in the final advance (Menin Sep-Oct 1918) and with the Army of Occupation (Cologne 1919) The companies were disbanded at Ripon on December 10th 1919."

"This tablet is erected to the memory of the following." 125 namen volgen.

Daaronder: "This memorial was removed from Blackfriars Hall in 1973 & re-erected in the cathedral where it was unveiled on March 16th 1975 by Councillor W.A.J. Spear T.D., President of the Norfolk Royal Engineers Association & Lord Mayor of Norwich."

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• Tekst: Anne Palmer
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• Imperial War Museum