Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Lightcliffe
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 03rd May 1919
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2765
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Current location
Lightcliffe United Reform Church
Leeds Road
Lightcliffe
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX3 8SD
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 13087 25699
Denomination: United Reformed
- Description
- Wall-mounted oak board. Painted gilt lettering.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD./ IN MEMORY OF THOSE HEROES, CONNECTED WITH THIS CHURCH/ WHO HAVE FOUGHT, GIVEN THEIR LIVES OR BEEN WOUNDED/ IN SERVING THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN ACHIEVING THE/ GLORIOUS VICTORY IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR, 1914-1919/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRINEDS/ KILLED / (NAMES)/ SERVED/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Blamires, F
Blamires, T
Bradley, J E
Brockbank, W
Bunce, J F
Bussey, E P
Cameron, A
Carr, J T
Cherrill, H G
Dickinson, C E
See details for all 47 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 51
Served and returned: 47
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Initials, Decorations
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height 520mm, width 760mm
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- 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
- Future uncertain since removal from main church (now used as offices)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 427
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