Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Elland
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 3rd October 1920
Attended by: Mrs Cecil Nicholson of Darwen - Unveiled
Date: 3rd October 1920
Attended by: Mrs Cecil Nicholson of Darwen - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2827
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Current location
Bethesda Methodist Church
Victoria Road
Elland
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX5 0AW
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 10623 20797
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- Nowy-pediment red-veined, marble tablet with incised inscription in black painted lettering. Pediment supported by two columns. One of a pair, the other being IWM 2826 which commemorates those who served, at this location.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND / IN LOVING MEMORY OF / (Naems) / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR, 1914 - 1919. / THE PRICE OF LIBERTY / UNVEILED OCT. 3RD 1920
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bell, Walter P
Brearley, Arthur L
Brook, James
Cooper, Roland
Crowther, Arthur
Ellis, Gledhill
Haigh, John
Halliday, Fred R
Perry, Herbert
Pilling, Herbert
See details for all 12 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: surname,forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 970mm, width 680mm
Materials: Marble - Red
- Tablet
- 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
- BETHESDA METHODIST CHURCH
- WMO ID: 119783
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-06-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 505
- War Memorials Trust WM2566 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=356
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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