
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rotherham
- Town
- Swinton
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 46615
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Current location
St John's Methodist Church
Station Street
Swinton
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S64 8QA
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 45442 99231
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- Convex headed white marble tablet mounted onto a black stone backboard. Inscription in black lettering. Single black line broder and foliate pattern in each corner of the tablet.
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF OUR COMRADES/ CLARENCE ROWLAND HOOD, / WHO FELL IN ACTION IN BELGIUM, / SEP12TH 1917, AGED 19 YEARS / GEORGE AUSTIN CHAMBERS, / WHO FELL IN ACTION IN YPRES, / AUG 12TH 1917, AGED 19 YEARS / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS."
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 2
Died: 2
Exact count: no
Information shown: year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: height 610MM, width 470MM
Materials: Stone
- 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
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