The Yorkshire Regiment, Local War Memorials

War Memorials, - Elsewhere
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Mansfield

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The War Memorial for the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Mansfield
Photo : Nottinghamshire County Council War Memorials

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School for boys was founded in 1561. However, in recent years it has become an Academy for both both girls and boys aged between 11 - 18 known as Queen Elizabeth's Academy.

The War Memorial to boys of the Grammar School was installed in the cricket pavilion, which was was built as a memorial to Old Elizabethans who fell in the Great War. The pavilion was opened on 19 September 1928.
The original memorial plaque in the pavilion was replaced by the one which commemorates Old Elizabethans who died in both the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

34 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, one of whom was a soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

Private William Collingwood Plumbe. 39862. 5th Battalion (Territorial) Gloucestershire Regiment, formerly 34233 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died at home 13 November 1918.
Born Mansfield (Notts), Enlisted Mansfield.
Buried MANSFIELD (NOTTINGHAM ROAD) CEMETERY.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Mansfield (now Queen Elizabeth's Academy) Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Mansfield (now Queen Elizabeth's Academy)
Photo : Google Earth

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