Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Manchester
- Town
- Longsight
- County
- Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 04th September 1921
Attended by: LIEUTENANT W H SUGDEN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18564
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- Church closed in 1967
LONGSIGHT WESLEYAN CHURCH
Stockport Rd
Longsight
Manchester
Greater Manchester
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 860 960
Denomination: Methodist
- Church closed in 1967
- Description
- PLAQUE OF GUN METAL AND BRONZE ON OAK MOUNT NAMES ENCIRLED BY CROWNED WREATH. PALM LEAVES AT BASE
- Inscription
- 1914 TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEORY OF /THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1918/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE/ IN ADDITION TO THOSE WHO FELL, 170 MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS CHURCH AND SCHOOL/ FAITHFULLY SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES DURING THE PERIOD OF THE WAR
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bailey, Fred
Beale, Ernest F
Calvole, Harold F
Craig, Hobert
Gospel, James F
Hall, James
Hanop, John E
Higsan, Harold S
Hurst, Joseph T
Kerr, John V
See details for all 24 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 24
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 24
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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