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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rotherham
- Town
- Swinton
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 52911
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- Previous locations
- Swinton Primitive Methodist Church (Closed)
Swinton
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 450 990
Denomination: Methodist
- Swinton Primitive Methodist Church (Closed)
- Description
- Stone tablet
- Inscription
- IN HONOUR OF/ OUR LADS WHO SERVED/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ 1914 1918/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barker, W H
Beldon, W
Beresford, C
Betts, L
Birks, S
Brown, T
Cheswick, R
Clarke, C H
Clarke, Wm
Cox, H E
See details for all 64 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 128
Served and returned: 64
Died: 64
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Condition
- History
- 1969: THE CHURCFH CLOSED AND THE MEMORIAL WAS DESTRYED, REASON UNKNOWN
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIALS by WESTWOOD,F AND FEATHERSTONE,A 297-298 Source: Image Library UKNIWM OFFICE Published:PRIVATE 2003
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