Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Todmorden
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12 Sep 1920
Attended by: Rev V. R. Horner
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2641
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Current location
Vale Baptist Church
Burnley Road
Todmorden
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
OL14 8JY
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 91130 26211
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- White marble tablet, pitched at top, with shelf at base, incised lettering. Carved laurel wreath and ribbon in pediment at top.
- Inscription
- HONOUR TO THE BRAVE/IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/THE FOLLOWING MEN FROM THIS/CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHO MADE/THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" JOHN 15.13
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Crowther, Jonas W
Dawson, Johnathan
Farrer, Walter
Greenwood, Irving
Helliwell, Frank
Howarth, Ezekiel G
Howarth, Othello
Ogden, Willie
Pickersgill, John
Pilling, Ronald
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, initials, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 1000mm, width 970mm
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate
- 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
- History
- Stored in outer porch
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Yorkshire Baptist Association
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 907
- See Halifax Weekly Guardian, 18th September 1920
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