The Yorkshire Regiment, Local War Memorials

War Memorials Elsewhere, -
Frome (Somerset),
- Memorial Theatre

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One of the Two WW1 Memorial Panels in Frome's Memorial Theatre
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Photo : Mark Newton of the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials website

Frome's Memorial Theatre is located in Christchurch Street West, opposite the Victoria Park in Frome. The theatre is dedicated to those who lost their lives in both World Wars and subsequent conflicts. The theatre first opened in 1924.

Inside the theatre entrance are dedicatory plaques to those who lost their lives in conflict. Two of these plaques are for those who lost their lives in the First World War. Above the plaques are the regimental badges of those commemorated.

Outside the theatre is a stone of Remembrance, with the sculpture of a soldier. In the Victoria Park are commemorative plaques on a wall for those who lost their lives in conflict.

300 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World war and 85 in the Second World war. 1 soldier who died in the Falklands conflict is also commemorated.

1 soldier who served in the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.

Private Walter Stewart Sergeant, 33353. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4289 Suffolk Regt. Killed 16 August 1916.
Born Frome (Som), Enlisted Cambridge.
Commemorated on Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
(Shown on the Frome memorial Theatre Memorial as "Sergeant, S W".)

Frome's Memorial Theatre Frome's Memorial Theatre
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