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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Sowerby
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2864
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Current location
Steep Lane Baptist Church
Steep Lane
Sowerby
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX6 1PE
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 02909 23662
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Framed and glazed illuminated roll of honour. Union flag at the top, tinted picture of the chapel below it.
- Inscription
- (Roll of Honour): ROLL OF HONOUR/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ STEEP LANE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL/ SOWERBY/ NAMES OF PAST AND PRESENT SCHOLARS WHO SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES/ DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ (Names)/ MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ (Names) (Plaque): PRESENTED BY MR & MRS HANSON TO STEEP LANE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Berry, Arthur
Berry, Harold
Berry, Willie
Broadbent, Benjamin
Broadbent, Ernest
Broadbent, Harold
Broadbent, James
Broadbent, Thomas Hbt
Broadbent, Walter
Brook, Charles E
See details for all 93 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 100
Served and returned: 84
Died: 9
Exact count: no
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: height 960mm, width 650mm
Materials: Wood - Oak - Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- Frame
- 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
- Private
- Responsibility
- Deacons of the Church
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 706
- Malcolm Bull, Calderdale Companion, www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/x240.html, accessed on 26th July 2022
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