Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- 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
- 2842
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Current location
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
- Base surmounted by plinth, shaft and Celtic cross. Inscription in relief on the base of the shaft and inscription incised on the plinth. Flower holder placed in front of the cross.
- Inscription
- (Shaft, 6 o'clock face): TO THE/ GLORY/ OF GOD/ AND IN MEM/ ORY OF THOSE/ WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918 (Plinth, top): ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO THEM O LORD AND LIGHT LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM (Plinth, sides): (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ashworth, Edmund Lord
Atack, Eric
Bamford, William Bolton
Butterworth, Wilson
Clark, John William
Dawson, John William
Foster, George William
Gibson, Arthur
Gibson, Ben
Gibson, Frederick
See details for all 52 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 52
Served and returned: 0
Died: 52
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: depth 920mm, height 4300mm, width 1130mm
Materials: Stone - Yorkshire
- Cross
- 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 May and 14 May 1921
- Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion, www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/ph5648.html, accessed 9/11/22
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