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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Fountain
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 5th February 1919
Attended by: Alderman Howard Clay, Mayor of Halifax
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 2690
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- Previous locations
- Hanson's Mill
Haley Hill
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX1 5PG
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 08208 25387
Denomination: Undefined
- Hanson's Mill
- Description
- Memorial drinking fountain surmounted by granite tablet. Carved letters.
- Inscription
- ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM THE EMPLOYEES MESSRS WILLIAM HANSON & CO LTD IN HONOUR OF THE FOLLOWING MEN WHO WENT FROM THE FIRM TO SERVE THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ (NAMES)/ AND TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ (NAMES)/ DUTY NOBLY DOWN
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bamber, W A
Bamford, H
Barber, H
Beaumont, N W
Bohun, G
Edmonds, H
Firth, C
Gray, G
Gray, H
Hall, W
See details for all 29 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 34
Served and returned: 29
Died: 5
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname, Initials
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- First World War memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 215
- Malcolm Bull, Calderdale Companion, www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/x214.html, accessed 24/7/22
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