National Association of Local Government Officers WW2 Roll of Honour

Also from Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, we received another intriguing little memorial. This illuminated Roll of Honour records the contribution of the District Councils’ Leicester Branch of the National Association of Local Government Officers towards the creation of Knole Lodge as a practical war memorial, to be used as a convalescent home in Bournemouth for members of the N.A.L.G.O. trade union and states that it is made in “recognition of the achievements & sacrifice of their colleagues who served…1939-1945”.

The Roll lists twenty-seven local government employees (from Barrow-upon-Soar, Blaby and Lutterworth Rural District Councils and Oadby and Wigston Urban District Councils respectively) with their ranks and corps – or Service, as the Royal Navy (including Submarines) and R.A.F. are both represented. These are men who served during the Second World War rather than gave their lives. It is carefully framed and has its own wooden carrying case; suggesting perhaps that it travelled from one council office to another one or was taken to wherever the N.A.L.G.O. branch met.