Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Blackley
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2837
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Current location
In the porch
BLACKLEY BAPTIST CHURCH
Blackley Rd
Blackley
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX5 0TD
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 10165 19922
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Three white marble tablets mounted onto a nowy headed red marble backboard. Centre tablet has a shaped top. Inscription in black lettering. Two rounded shelves flank the centre tablet.
- Inscription
- (Centre tablet): ERECTED / IN PROFOUND AND GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE MEN / FROM THIS CHURCH AND SCHOOL / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM / (Names) AND AS A TRIBUTE TO THOSE / NAMED IN THE SIDE PANELS / WHO SERVED IN THE WAR. (Left and right tablets): (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ainley, J
Ainley, J E
Aspinall, I
Bailey, H
Balmforth, George
Bintcliffe, A
Bintcliffe, W
Bottomley, E
Bray, W
Brook, A
See details for all 100 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 101
Served and returned: 83
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, initial
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: height 1180mm, width 2870mm
Materials: Marble - Red - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Yorkshire Baptist Association
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 516
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