Gates of Mount Felix

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Plaque from outside the gates of Mount Felix, a house in Walton which was used by New Zealand forces as a hospital during the first world war. It reads "THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AD 1921 BY THE INHABITANTS OF WALTON ON THAMES TO COMMEMORATE THE 27000 FELLOW SUBJECTS FROM THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND WHO WOUNDED OR DISABLED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 WERE CARED FOR AT THE MILITARY HOSPITALS IN MOUNT FELIX & OATLANDS PARK AND SEVENTEEN OF THESE MEN LIE BURIED IN WALTON CEMETERY THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE BUT THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"

Place: Walton on Thames
Subject: War (The First World War)
Dates: 01/01/1914 - 31/12/1919

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