Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Coley, Hipperholme
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 11th January 1920
Attended by: Brigadier (Acting) R.E. Sugden CMG DSO - Dedicated
Date: 11th January 1920
Attended by: Rev. G.T. Jowett, Vicar of Coley - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2761
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Current location
St John's Church
Coley Road
Coley
Hipperholme
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX3 7SA
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 12462 26920
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wall-mounted, white marble tablet with dark, veined marble mount. Tablet has pediment at top. Incised black lettering. Small relief of bronze laurel wreath at top centre.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY THE/ PARISHONERS TO HONOUR THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderton, J
Andrews, M P
Balmforth, S
Boland, J
Booth, W S
Broadbent, G
Brook, J
Bulman, T
Bulmer, T
Charnock, E
See details for all 75 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 75
Served and returned: 0
Died: 75
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Rank
Order of information: Rank, Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: height 1530mm, width 1070mm
Materials: Marble - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Backboard
- 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
- St. John the Baptist Coley World War One Memorial
- WMO ID: 269537
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Halifax Weekly Guardian 6th June 1919 and 17th January 1920
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 423
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