The memorial commemorates those employees of Crosville Motor Services Limited who died during the Second World War. It is today located at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.

The company was formed as Crosville Motor Company Limited in 1906 in Chester, by George Crosland Taylor and his French business associate Georges de Ville, with the intention of building motor cars. The company name was an amalgam of 'Crosland' and 'de Ville'.
By 1909 Crosville had commenced its first bus service, between Chester and Ellesmere Port, and went on to become the largest bus operator in north and mid Wales, as well as parts of Cheshire and Shropshire, in England.
In 1968 Crosville, along with most other large bus operators, became part of the state-owned National Bus Company.
Following the "deregulation" of bus services in the 1980s, the Crosville brand was gradually phased out and today most of the former Crosville services are operated by Arriva.

CROSVILLE MOTOR SERVICES LTD
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF EMPLOYEES
OF THIS COMPANY WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945

1939-1945 War

"THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"

Sources:

• Crosville Motors War Memorial
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Military Records

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