Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2729
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Current location
Callers office
5
Delivery Office
Gaol Lane
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX1 1AA
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 09508 25333
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Sorting Office
Commercial Street
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Sorting Office
- Description
- List of names framed by Doric columns and surmounted by representation of pediment containing allied flags and Halifax Borough Arms.
- Inscription
- POST OFFICE/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ MEMBERS OF THE STAFF WHO SERVED THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 1920/ (Names)/ * DCM + DENOTES KILLED IN ACTION $ MM/ # DENOTES HOME SERVICE % DENOTES DIED OF WOUNDS # DENOTES WOMENS SERVICE (Original symbols colour coded and can not be reproduced here)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bates, C
Beaumont, A L
Beaumont, R
Bebee, H
Bedworth, A
Bentley, W
Berry, L
Bird, A T
Boardman, K
Bradley, J
See details for all 132 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 126
Served and returned: 112
Died: 14
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Additional, surname, initial of forenames
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: height 710mm, width 1050mm
Materials: Wood - Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Card
- Frame
- 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
- Buckled and discoloured by the effects of central heating (1992). Head postmaster has proposed that GPO social club should pay for restoration and reframing.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 213
- catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_Mem246
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