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The Board of Trade War Memorial
Photo : Richard MacDonald Webb of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials
In the 19th century the Board of Trade had an advisory function on economic activity in the UK and its empire. During the second half of the 19th century it also dealt with legislation for patents, designs and trade marks, company regulation, labour and factories, merchant shipping, agriculture, transport, power etc. The department was merged with the Ministry of Technology in 1970, to form the Department of Trade and Industry.
The War Memorial for the Board of Trade records the names of 305 individuals who gave their lives in the First World War.
This memorial is now located at the Department for International Trade headquarters in Central London, 55 Whitehall/3 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2AW. The original memorial was a bronze plaque with four columns of names, inside an oak frame with a carved galleon hull inside a broken pediment. The new memorial is the same but the names are carved in wood, and the inscription for WW2 is on a new panel underneath.
One soldier who served in the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this War Memorial.
2nd Lieutenant Walter Ernest Pacey.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 June 1917.
Buried ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
(Although the name on the memorial is "W C Pacey", this is thought
to be a transcription error.)
The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Before the war Walter Pacey had worked for the Labour Dept of the Board
of Trade and initially served in the ranks of the Yorkshires before being
commissioned.
He then joined the 4th Battalion and was with them as they came out of the
Battle of Arras in late April of 1917. The battalion then had “Twelve
days pleasantly spent at Famechon” for rest and reorganisation. On June
16th 2nd Lt Pacey and the battalion were sent back into the line in actions
around the Hindenburg Support line. 2nd Lt Walter Ernest Pacey was killed
on June 27th 1917 during a German gas attack on the battalion’s lines.
His name is also remembered on the memorial to the staff of the Ministry of
Labour in Caxton House, Tothill Street in London."
There is a far more detailed biography of Walter Ernest Pacey on the website for the Board of Trade Memorial. This particular biography makes good use of information in the Yorkshire Regiment Remembrance website.
The
Department for International Trade Headquarters, 55 Whitehall, London SW1A
2AW
Photo : Google Earth
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