Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Copeland
- Town
- Hensingham, Whitehaven
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21 January 1921
Attended by: Mr James McGowan
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3965
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Current location
Cemetery end of the right hand (east)wall of the entrance drive.
Hensingham Cemetery
Main Street
Hensingham
Whitehaven
Copeland
Cumbria
CA28 8UA
England
OS Grid Ref: NX 98866 17061
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Wall of Reading Room
Hensingham Liberal Club
The Square
Hensingham
Copeland
Cumbria
CA28 8QD
England
OS Grid Ref: NX 98625 16754
Denomination: Undefined
- Wall of Reading Room
- Description
- Rectangular white marble tablet with extended terminals at the corners and incised Gothic style lettering.
- Inscription
- RIGHT V. MIGHT./ ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE UNDERMENTIONED MEMBERS/ OF THE/ HENSINGHAM LIBERAL CLUB WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (Names)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN MAY LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Fisher, Thomas
Gribbons, Edward
Hadwin, Jonas W
Mcfarlane, Thomas
Moore, John P
O'neil, Joseph
Taylor, Anthony E
Watson, Edward H
Wilkinson, Joseph T
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: depth 35mm, height 640mm, width 810mm
Materials: Marble
- 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
- Hensingham Liberal Club
- WMO ID: 168610
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 26-01-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2011: Inscription weathered.
- Costs
Site: Nil (in club)
Comments: Members of the Liberal Club funded the memorial.- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- Whitehaven News page 7g-27 January 1921 (for date of unveiling and original location within the club).
- West Cumberland Times, January 26th 1921
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