Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Ribble Valley
- Town
- Simonstone
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 10567
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Current location
On outside wall
St Peters CE School
School La
Simonstone
Ribble Valley
Lancashire
BH12 7HR
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 77521 34492
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Two classically styled stone tablets for WW1 and WW2 with a modern tablet added below the original WW1 tablet bearing additional names
- Inscription
- WW1 Tablet: TO THE GLORY AND / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / FROM THIS TOWNSHIP, WHO / SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR, / THAT HONOUR / MIGHT LIVE. 1914 - 1919 / (Names) Additional WW1 Tablet: (Names) WW2 Tablet: TO THE GLORY AND / EVERLASTING MEMORY OF THE / MEN FROM THIS TOWNSHIP, / WHO SACRIFICED THEIR / LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR, / THAT HONOUR MIGHT LIVE. / 1939-1945 / (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bradshaw, Joseph
Breckell, Robert James
Haines, Cyril
Law, John
Parrington, Robert
Ravenscroft, William
Smithies, Eli
Thistlethwaite, Ernest
Yates, Gilbert
Yates, Thomas
See details for all 10 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,regiment
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,regiment,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- 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 - Reference
- Centenary Commemoration report and pictures in: Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thurs, 20 November 2014, p23
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