Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rotherham
- Town
- Swinton
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 8th February 1920
Attended by: Bishop of Sheffield
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52909
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Current location
St Margaret's Church
Church Street
Swinton
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S64 8EG
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 45199 99362
Denomination: Church of England
- Previous locations
- St Michael of All Angels Church
Swinton
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 450 990
Denomination: Undefined
- St Michael of All Angels Church
- Description
- Plain rectangular sicilan marble tablet surmounting a blue slate backboard. Inscription in black lettering.
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH/ WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR./ 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bradshaw, W
Cutts, W
Gaunt, J H
Hurst, G T
Reed, T J
Schneider, J
Taylor, R
Thornton, Jesse
Walton, C B
Wharton, A E
See details for all 10 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 10
Died: 10
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,manner of death,age of death
Order of information: year died,rank,regiment,manner of death,age of death
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate, Marble - Sicilian
- 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
- Reference
- ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIALS by WESTWOOD,F AND FEATHERSTONE,A 293 Source: Image Library UKNIWM OFFICE Published:PRIVATE 2003
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