WW1 Memorial Plaque in Privately Purchased Display Frame

The memorial Plaque named to “George Frederick Thorpe”. Machine Gun Corps

There is actually a fair amount of research on this particular soldier on the “Sutton in Craven “ website.

Enlisting as a Private in November 1914 in the West Yorkshire Regiment. Promoted through the ranks for merit and bravery to Sergeant and Tranfering to the Machine Gun Corps. Wounded in action to the leg and latershellled with gas resulting in his death at a casualty clearing station on 11th September 1917.


Mounted in a a lovely decorative commercial frame. These frames were not issued with the plaques but could be commercially purchased separately as an impressive way to display the plaques and to honour the fallen.

The frame is in the form of the Maltese cross, in oxidized copper with a silvered circular wreath bearing the dates of the First World War.

The frame is missing its original stand (so often lost) and bears a makers stamp to the reverse reading ‘Wright & Son, Edgeware, Middlesex England’. It also bears the Registry Design number of ‘680783’ which dates it to 1921.

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