Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Cragg Vale
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 20th June 1920
Attended by: Bishop of Wakefield
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2609
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Current location
South aisle
St John The Baptist In The Wilderness Church
Church Bank Lane
Cragg Vale
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX7 5TA
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 00030 23213
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- WW1 plaque is wall-mounted Nowy-headed bronze plaque on wooden mount. WW2 plaque underneath. Metal plaque with white lettering. Also on wooden mount. Decorative reliefs on WW1 memorial plaque; Laurel wreath at top, flowers and leaves at base.
- Inscription
- (WW1 PLAQUE): ROLL OF HONOUR/ CRAGG VALE/ THESE GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR HUMANITY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1918/ (NAMES)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN /THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" (WW2 PLAQUE): 1939-1945/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Booth, Albert
Broadbent, Gibson
Clegg, Jack
Clegg, Walter
Crossley, Fred
Hanson, George
Hartley, Albert
Hartley, Wilson
Helliwell, Fred
Heseltine, Herbert B
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Forename
Order of information: Surname, Forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 1340mm, width 760mm
Materials: Metal, Bronze
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Costs
Site: £200
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hebden Bridge Times 7/25 June 1920
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 622
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