Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Leeds
- Town
- Collingham
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 21898
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Current location
St Oswald's Parish Church
Church Street
Collingham
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS22 5AX
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 38943 46102
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- BRASS PLAQUE WITH INCISED INSCRIPTION IN BLACK PAINTED LETTERING. INCISED OAK LEAF AND ACORN BORDER. WHOLE IS SET WITHIN A WOODEN FRAME INCISED RED PAINTED CROSS AT THE TOP CENTRE OF THE PLAQUE
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING / PARISHIONERS OF COLLINGHAM / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY DURING / THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES) / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT / A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS / ST JOHN 15 V.13
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bisat, Arthur William
Browning, William Edward
Colbeck-welch, James Charles
Cooke, Alfred Royston
French, Kenneth Herbert
Gurney, Basil Russell
Longbottom, John Spencer
Sanderson, Reginald Woolley
Sibery, Thomas Henry
Stead, Peter
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, regiment.
Order of information: surname,forename,regiment
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- 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
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