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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Halton
- Town
- Runcorn
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MESSRS T ROBINSON AND SONS (Builder)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: March 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52335
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Current location
HALTON METHODIST CHURCH
High St
Runcorn
Halton
Cheshire
WA7
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 510 820
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- WHITE MARBLE TABLET WITH INSCRIPTION IN BLACK LETTERING
- Inscription
- "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE YOUNG MEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO AT THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL FOR JUSTICE AND LIBERTY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919"/ (NAMES) "HONOUR TO THE IMMORTAL DEAD" TAHT GREAT WHITE COMPANY OF SHINING SOULS WHO GAVE THEIR YOUTH THAT THE WORLD MIGHT GROW OLD IN PEACE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ashley, Percy W
Astbury, Walter
Ball, Leonard
Bell, Clifford
Bradshaw, Alfred
Bradshaw, William
Bradshaw, William
Goodall, Charles
Haddock, Arthur
Hallding, Harry
See details for all 26 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 50
Served and returned: 25
Died: 25
Exact count: no
Information shown: year died,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablet
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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