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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Elland
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 11th November 1920
Attended by: Mr J.W. Broadhead
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 2707
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- Previous locations
- Library (Ex-Constitutional Club)
Coronation Street
Elland
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX5 0AB
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 10816 20898
Denomination: Undefined
- Library (Ex-Constitutional Club)
- Description
- Board. Gilt scroll and Union Jack surrounded by Laurel wreath,
- Inscription
- 1914 ROLL OF HONOUR 1919/ (NAMES)/ THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bottomley, Thomas
Jagger, Marshall
Mckeand, David
Minnett, E
Reading, Chas
Sykes, John
Thornton, Sidney
Waller, Norman H
Wormald, Edgar
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 90
Served and returned: 81
Died: 9
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname, Rank, Forename
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Mahogany
- Board
- Condition
- History
- Memorial lost when building converted to library and Borough Architects office
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Halifax Weekly Guardian 13th November 1920 (p8)
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 526
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