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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Blackburn
- Town
- Hoddlesden
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 31 July 1921
Attended by: Mr Bateson - Dedicated
Date: 31 July 1921
Attended by: Rev W H Gibb - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 51345
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- Previous locations
- Hoddlesden Wesleyan Chapel
Queen Street
Hoddlesden
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB3
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 717 223
Denomination: Methodist
- Hoddlesden Wesleyan Chapel
- Description
- 'A Tablet'
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE HONOUR AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE CONNECTED WITH THIS CHAPEL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919/ (names)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Briggs, J H
Briggs, R
Johnson, T
Marsden, H
Marsden, N
Riley, C
Summerfield, R
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Blackburn Times 6 August 1921
- Blackburn Weekly Telegraph 6 August 1921
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