Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NW LICHFIELD STREET
895-1/11/259 (North side)
Harris Memorial (St.Peter's Gardens)

GV II

Memorial. 1917-19. Bust by R.J.Emerson. Ashlar with bronze
bust and plaques. Battered square plinth and stele have
projections to sides with inscriptions to tops and caps with
undulating lines; bust of sailor has cap band of H.M.S.
Admirable; plaque to front has inscription recording heroic
death of Harris and relief shows him slumped in ship's
wireless room; plaque to rear has inscription in Italian. Able
Seaman Harris was killed in the Adriatic Sea while remaining
at his post in the wireless room on the crippled drifter
Floandi.

Listing NGR: SO9147898758

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 18 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638004

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