Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Greetland
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 18 February 1923
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Unveiled
Date: 18 February 1923
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2833
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Current location
West Vale Baptist Church
Rochdale Road
Greetland
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 09768 21188
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Three bronze plaques set within a large ornate oak border. Pillars on either side and board shaped in a Nowy headed design above each plaque. Two cherubs' heads flank the central plaque with laurel garlands below them. A wreath encloses the names of the fallen, carved in capitals.
- Inscription
- (Centre panel): WEST VALE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL / ROLL OF HONOUR / GREAT EUROPEAN WAR / 1914 1918 / TO THE MEMORY OF OUR / HONOURED DEAD / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES, AND ALSO / TO THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE / GREAT CAUSE OF FREEDOM / DURING THE EUROPEAN WAR. / (Names) / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS" / JOHN XV-13 (Left and right panels): (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Akroyd, Pratt
Ambler, Thomas
Ashworth, Ernest
Ashworth, James
Ashworth, Joe R
Aspinall, Irvine
Baines, William A
Binns, Harry
Broadbent, Frank H
Broadbent, Percy
See details for all 81 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 83
Served and returned: 75
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Frame
Measurements: height 1150mm, width 1800mm
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Plaque
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Minister and deacons of the church
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 512
- Halifax Weekly Guardian 24th Feb 1923
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