Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Todmorden
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12th September 1920
Attended by: Major Barker, MP for Sowerby
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2651
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Current location
Outside of the church
Vale Baptist Church
Burnley Road
Todmorden
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
OL14 8JY
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 91133 26210
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Stone cross, with a ribboned wreath, surmounting wider stone plinth. Plinth bears names and inscription in incised black lettering.
- Inscription
- IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ SHORE BOYS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ (Names)/ THEY LIVE FOR EVERMORE/ TREASURED MEMORIES OF/ (Names)/ DIED IN ACTIVE SERVICE 1939-1945/ WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Baron, Harry
Boothman, Ronald A
Cooper, Albert E
Cooper, Harold
Earnshaw, John W
Gill, Richard
Greenwood, Ernest
Greenwood, Herbert W
Greenwood, Paul
Greenwood, Richard A
See details for all 23 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height c 940mm
Materials: Granite - Plinth
Measurements: height 1660mm, width 460mm
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- 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
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 916
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