
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Craven
- Town
- Low Bentham
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: July 1920
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 47353
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Current location
Victoria Institute
Main Street
Low Bentham
Craven
North Yorkshire
LA3 7BX
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 64984 69401
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Methodist Chapel
Low Bentham
Craven
North Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 640 690
Denomination: Methodist
- Methodist Chapel
- Description
- GILDED ALABASTER TABLET WITH GREEN MARBLE BORDER CARVED WITH LAUREL LEAVES.
- Inscription
- TO THE HONOURED/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN WHOSE NAMES ARE/ HEREON INSCRIBED, WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919./ (names)/ "LEST WE FORGET."
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Carter, Robert
Ramshill, Edward
Townend, Joseph
Wilcock, Ernest
See details for all 4 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Alabaster - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Green
- 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 - Reference
- Lancaster Guardian 10 July 1920; p2; col 4
- Craven Herald and Pioneer 9 July 1920; p6; col 4
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