Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Barkisland
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 6th September 1919
Attended by: Mr. Fairbank, Sunday School superintendent - Dedicated
Date: 6th September 1919
Attended by: Reverend Alfred Bradfield MA B.D. - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2638
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Current location
Opposite Christchurch on junction of Saddleworth Road and Scammonden Road
Saddleworth Road
Barkisland
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX4 0AF
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 05437 19789
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Krumlin Methodist Church
Scammonden Road
Krumlin
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX4 0AZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 05541 18270
Denomination: Methodist
- Krumlin Methodist Church
- Description
- External marble tablet: since its relocation it is now mounted in wood case/stand with a small brass plaque above it. Incised lettering.
- Inscription
- ERECTED AS A GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THE MEN CONNECTED / WITH THIS CHAPEL WHO SERVED IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / (Names) / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / AND/ (Names) / "SO ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL BE IN PEACE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Armitage, Rufus H
Braithwaite, Frnest
Braithwaite, Irvine
Braithwaite, Ralph
Brown, Harold
Darby, Fred
Darby, William
Fairbank, Archer
Fairbank, Frank
Fairbank, Fred
See details for all 26 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 26
Served and returned: 22
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, initial, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 650mm, width 900mm
Materials: Marble
- 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
- KRUMLIN METHODIST CHURCH WW1 TABLET
- WMO ID: 119945
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 09-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2020: Chapel sold to developers and so this memorial has been relocated to a site next to the Barkisland War Memorial -WM Ref. 2635 In the early 1990s, Hornshaw and Fowler reported that it was in the then derelict graveyard of the disused Chapel
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 813
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