Catalogue Number
NMLH.1999.20.2
Object Name
Roll of Honour
Title
ROLL OF HONOUR OF MEN WHO SERVED THEIR KING AND COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR II 1939 1945 CORPORATION OF NOTTINGHAM GAS DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION CENTRE, WOODBOROUGH ROAD: ANDERSON, T. PR F.S ....KILLED IN ACTION ... .... Percy Bowman 31.5.50
Place
Gas Department & Woodborough Road & Nottingham & Nottinghamshire & England & UK
People
Names: Anderson -- Shaw; Bowman, Percy
Events
War & World War II
Date
1953
Creator(s)
Description
It was common in the aftermath of World War II for local councils and large businesses, such as the Co-op, to produce 'rolls of honour' commemorating employees who were killed on active military service. Workers who survived were sometimes recorded on the lists. About 265, 000 British servicemen and women were killed in World War II in the international struggle against Fascism. A red star on this modest roll of honour marks the names and rank of those workers who were killed in action. It was made after the war, in 1950, and was perhaps a copy of a more permanent, metal plaque. Fractured gas mains were common during the Blitz, and Nottingham's Gas Department, like those of other cities, were assisted in dealing with them by the city's Fire Service and its wartime, highly competent Auxiliary Fire Service.
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