Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Rossendale
- Town
- Waterfoot
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Saturday 21st March 1921 at 6:30
Attended by: "Mr. Richard Holt, of Stacksteads, who has been a veritable mother to the Boys has graciously undertaken to unveil it." Speakers: Mr Alderman J H Lord JP, Miss A A Haworth, Rev J Shaw Brown and Rev J Morley Mills. .(Ref 1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 86880
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Current location
Main Entrance
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Glen Road
Waterfoot
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 7BJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 83733 21899
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- 1921 - c.2004
Bethlehem Unitarian Sunday School
Turnpike
Waterfoot
Rossendale
Lanashire
BB49DU
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 83576 22401
Denomination: Unitarian
- 1921 - c.2004
- Description
- A framed Roll of Honour representing a tablet with and oval area listing 27 members of the Church and Sunday School who died (cross reference WMR Reference 51494) and 83 members who served and returned. The tablet is flanked at the base with elaborate flowers and foliage.
- Inscription
- BETHLEHEM/ UNITARIAN/ CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL/ NEWCHURCH/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ IN MEMORIAM/ (27 Names)/ (followed by 83 Names)/ FOR FREEDOM/ AND PROGRESS/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ashworth, Fred
Ashworth, George
Ashworth, Harold
Ashworth, John R
Ashworth, Ormerod
Ashworth, Roland
Ashworth, Samuel L
Barnes, Ben
Barnes, Ernest
Barnes, Frank
See details for all 110 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 110
Served and returned: 83
Died: 27
Exact count: yes
Information shown: First name, middle name initial and surname
Order of information: Fatalities listed alphabetically followed by served and returned listed alphabetically
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Undefined
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- Undefined
- 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
- Private
Details: Bethlehem Unitarian Church and Sunday School - Reference
- livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/6399
- (1) Bethlehem Unitarian Church calender Number 147 dated March 1921 - Rawtenstall Library
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