Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Hambleton
- Town
- Crakehall
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61886
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Current location
St Gregory's Church
Village Green
Crakehall
Hambleton
North Yorkshire
DL8 1HG
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 24462 89961
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Standard Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) Roll of Honour in wooden frame. Manuscript inscriptions are top centre within an illustrated scroll, below names are listed in three columns with the names of the fallen listed above the names of those who served and returned. Upper section written in red ink and the rest in black ink.
- Inscription
- Top left: COMFORT THEIR KIN / AND HONOUR / THEIR LIVING COMRADES Top centre: 1914-1918/ PARISH / OF / CRAKEHALL/ WITH / LANGTHORNE Top right: THEIR NAME / LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE Centre: OUR ROLL OF HONOUR/ HE KEEPETH WATCH ABOVE HIS OWN / THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, / AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD, / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN- AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM... / HONOUR AND GRTITUDE TO THOSE WHO SERVED / THEIR COUNTRY AND WERE SPARED TO RETURN / CRAKEHALL / (Names) / LANGTHORNE/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brigham, Henry
Bryson, Henry
Chatterton, John
Danty, Arthur
Davidson, John
Dodds, William
Early, Robert
Elgie, Albert
Elgie, Herbert
Elgie, Percy
See details for all 54 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 54
Served and returned: 42
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood, Glass
- Roll of honour
- 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 - Reference
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