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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Blackburn
- Town
- Blackburn
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Opened
Date: 6 November 1919
Attended by: Mr J T Walton - Dedicated
Date: 9 November 1919
Attended by: Revd R K Postlethwaite (the 3 day date difference is as reported by the local press) - Show More (1)
- Opened
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 54858
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- Previous locations
- Woodland United Reformed Church
Preston Old Road
Blackburn
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 5ND
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 65478 26098
Denomination: United Reformed
- Woodland United Reformed Church
- Description
- Organ, possibly with a brass dedication plaque
- Inscription
- LEST WE FORGET/ THIS ORGAN WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE BOYS OF THIS CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 1914-18/ (names) (exact line spacing unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderton, James
Cooper, Joseph
Dunning, William
Halliwell, John Richard
Hargreaves, Fred
Hesketh, Alfred
Richardson, Ernest
Seed, John William
Sumner, Danial
Sumner, Robert
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Organ or Organ part
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Plaque
- Condition
- Costs
Memorial: £500
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Blackburn Times 8 November 1919
- Blackburn Weekly Telegraph 8 November 1919
- Cherry Tree Congregational Church hand-book of 1924
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