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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Unknown
Attended by: J Whitaker J P - Dedicated
Date: Unknown
Attended by: Archdeacon of Halifax - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 2675
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- Previous locations
- St James Church
St James Road
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 070 250
Denomination: Church of England
- St James Church
- Description
- Wall-mounted stone tablet. Carved in effect of scroll. Dark stone mount. Incised black lettering. Relief of sword in sheath at left side. Laurel wreath at top centre, above the inscription.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ (Names)/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO/ MAN THAN THIS, THAT A / MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Binns, Charles
Garside, John William
Haslem, John
Holmes, Norman
Lambert, Ambrose
Long, Frank
Sheehan, Charles
Sheehan, William Henry
Stafford, Richard
Taylor, Tom
See details for all 13 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, titles
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Carrara
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- A Beautiful Memorial - Tablet to be unveiled at St. James' Church (Newspaper article, source unknown)
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 116
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