Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Bradford
- Town
- Idle
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 28625
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- Thorpe Methodist Church
Thorpe Garth
Idle
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD10 9RB
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 17968 37603
Denomination: Methodist
- Thorpe Methodist Church
- Description
- WALL-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE TABLET. INCISED BLACK LETTERING. NAMES IN SINGLE COLUMN. BLACK MARBLE MOUNT. TABLET CURVED AT TOP FLANKED BY CARVED COLUMNS EITHER SIDE UNIDENTIFIED CREST AT TOP CENTRE. CARVINGS ON COLUMNS EITHER SIDE OF TABLET; ROSES AND LEAVES.
- Inscription
- IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS/ CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL/WHO SERVED IN H.M. FORCES/ AND DIED DURING THE GREAT WAR/ (NAMES)/ "THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Buckley, Frank
Firth, Jesse
Fletcher, Arnold
Fletcher, Horace
Hartley, Robert
Hobson, Harry
Howard, John E
Jenkins, Harry
North, Hainsworth
North, William H
See details for all 21 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height C 4FT, width C 2FT
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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