Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Sowerby
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2859
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Current location
Northern aisle
St. Peter's Church
St. Peter's Avenue
Sowerby
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX6 1JZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 04305 23304
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wall mounted, white marble tablet with cornice, mounted on to a triangular headed grey slate backboard. Inscription in black lettering. Cannon and cannonballs, draped flag and sheathed sword carved in relief at the top
- Inscription
- SEBASTOPOL/ ALMA, BALAKLAVA, INKERMAN/ TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE BRAVE MEN/ FROM THE TOWNSHIP OF/ SOWERBY/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1854 AND 1855/ SO TRIUMPHANTLY ACHIEVED FOR/ THE LIBERTIES OF EUROPE./ (names)/ THY DEAD MEN SHALL LIVE, ISAIAH XXVI, 19/ ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brown, William
Crabtree, George
Crowther, Eli
Greeenwood, John
Hellowell, James
Holroyde, Joseph
Saltonstall, Elijah
Sharp, Daniel
Thorp, Joseph
Wadsworth, Joseph
See details for all 10 names - Commemorations
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Regiment,forename, Surname
Order of information: Undefined
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: height 1500mm, width 960mm
Materials: Slate
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Vicar and church wardens of St. Peter's church
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 701
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