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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rotherham
- Town
- Dalton
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2nd January 1921
Attended by: The Bishop of Sheffield unveiled the memorial - Dedicated
Date: 2nd January 1921
Attended by: The Bishop of Sheffield dedicated the memorial - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52823
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Current location
Holy Trinity Church
Dalton Lane
Dalton
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S65 3QL
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 45830 93673
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Sicilian marble tablet mounted onto a black marble backboard
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919./ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Atherton, W
Atkinson, A
Atkinson, S
Banford, W H
Bates, J E
Beaumont, J A
Bennett, A
Bird, A
Blackburn, H
Blackburn, W
See details for all 161 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 41
Served and returned: 0
Died: 41
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Sicilian - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black
- 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
- Costs
Memorial: £62
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Church of England
- Reference
- Sheffield Independent Thursday 6/1/1921 reported: 'A war memorial tablet of Sicilian marble on black slate background, and containing 40 names of men who fell in the war from the Parish of Dalton, has been unveiled and dedicated in Dalton Church by the Bishop of Sheffield'. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001464/19210106/134/0005
- ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIALS by WESTWOOD,F AND FEATHERSTONE,A 133-137 Source: Image Library UKNIWM OFFICE Published:PRIVATE 2003
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