Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Hebden Bridge
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1st May 1921
Attended by: CLLR George Atack, Chairman of UDC - Dedicated
Date: 1st May 1921
Attended by: Rev J A Smith MA, Vicar of Luddenden Foot - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2841
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Current location
On the arch of the south choir aisle.
St. James the Great Church
Church Lane
Hebden Bridge
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX7 6DP
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 98440 27453
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Nowy-headed bronze plaque mounted onto a nowy-headed wooden backboard. Inscription in relief. Cross within a wreath at the top centre of the plaque. Flower heads in relief in each corner.
- Inscription
- I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHO WORSHIPPED HERE/ AND GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ ETERNAL REST/ GRANT UNTO THEM O GOD/ AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL/ SHINE UPON THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ashworth, Edmund L
Atack, Eric
Bamford, William B
Butterworth, Wilson
Clark, John W
Dawson, John W
Gibson, Sidney
Gibson, Verney
Greenwood, Arthur
Greenwood, Fred
See details for all 31 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 31
Served and returned: 0
Died: 31
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 800mm, width 430mm
Materials: Bronze - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
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 - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Vicar and Churchwardens
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 603
- Halifax Weekly Guardian 7 and 14 May 1921
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