Where is this memorial originally from?

[Thudnut]

Hi everyone.
Firstly, apologies for not being on Rootschat so much lately.  Work is hectic and I've been working hard on a personal project.

However - on to more important matters...

I was mooching about a reclamation yard the other day when I was stunned to find an old WW1 memorial tucked away in the corner of a building.  I was worried that it might have been sold on or even melted down as scrap, so contacted the UK National Index of War memorials (UKNIWM) to see if they could help.  They replied really quickly and put me in touch with the War Memorials Trust.  Emails were exchanged.

I returned to the reclamation yard and spoke to the proprietor who very kindly said that they would be willing to let me have the memorial for free if I could find a proper home for it.  I would really like to get it back to where it was originally dedicated and that's why I am appealing for your help.

A copy of the memorial can be found here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/Dogpo/Memorial.jpg

I have managed to identify 18 of the 20 names and am struggling to positively identify Horace Harding and Percy White.

The UKNIWM and Memorials Trust are also researching their records.

If anyone can give me a pointer as to where this may have originally come from, I will do the rest and get it back to where it belongs.  If I can't locate anywhere specific and, since the majority of the fallen come from the Reading/Berks area, and the majority appear to have served in the Royal Berks Regt, I will contact either the Reading museum or the Royal Berks Regimental museum to see if they would like it.

The main thing is that it has been saved and will be restored somewhere - but let's try to get it as close to home as possible.

Thanks, in advance for your help.
Thudders

[scrimnet]

Thudders

You are a star!

Well done you.

I wonder if has come from a redundant church or a demolished one??

Or perhaps one of those clappy happy ones that decided that the minimalist look was best?

Or even one that has been turned into a mosque....

[Thudnut]

Hi Scrimnet.

The memorial mentions a church so you could be right.  I dread to think what it may have become now!

Good to know that these 20 men will not, now be forgotten.
Thudders

[meles]

Eighteen is a very unusual surname. That might narrow it down.

meles

[liverpool annie]

Oh Thudders ! how terrific .... thank you !

I'm looking !

Do you have them in 1901 ? ..... did they all live in the same area ?

Annie 

[meles]

The Eighteens seem mostly to come from Reading, Berkshire and Hadleigh, Suffolk.

meles

[meles]

...and there's a Henry Aust born 1870 Reading.

meles

[meles]

...and Horace Pinker b. Reading 1896.

My guess is Reading!

meles

[meles]

And Frank Gilbert Weight, b. 1896 Reading.

Certain, now.

meles

added: Q1 1896 Reading 2c 352. The birth certificate would narrow down his birth - possibly even to the church itself.