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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Shelf, Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2731
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Current location
Bethel Chapel
Chapel Lane
Shelf
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX3 7QY
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 12766 28917
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- White marble tablet on black marble background. Names inscribed in black roman lettering and a carved drape around the tablet.
- Inscription
- ERECTED IN REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE CONNECTED WITH THIS PLACE OF WORSHIP/ WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE EUROPEAN WAR/ 1914-19/ (13 Names)/ "MAY THEIR REWARD BE AS GREAT AS THEIR SACRIFICE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barraclough, Ernest
Barraclough, Haydan
Bates, Harry
Fletcher, Zephaniah
Hanson, Charles
Kershaw, Norman
Oddy, Willie
Petty, Edgar
Pickles, Angus
Pickles, Harry
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: Forename, surname
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Tablet
Measurements: height 1000mm, width 1150mm
Materials: Marble - White
- Backboard
- 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
- Bethel Chapel Shelf World War One Memorial
- WMO ID: 269526
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Chapel trustees
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 301
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