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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rotherham
- Town
- Thorpe Hesley
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 18th February 1922
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52926
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Current location
Flanders Court
Thorpe Hesley
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 376 962
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Mechanics Institute
Thorpe Hesley
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 370 960
Denomination: Undefined
- Mechanics Institute
- Description
- Two plain stone tablets set into a sloped stone base
- Inscription
- THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ AS A RECOGNITION & APPRECIATION OF THE PATRIOTIC SERVICES/ RENDERED TO THIS COUNTRY & EMPIRE BY THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO SERVED WITH HM FORCES DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ AND WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HEREON./ "GOD SAVE THE KING./ (NAMES)"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allott, A
Ardron, W
Armstrong, C
Armstrong, D
Armstrong, J R
Arnold, C
Bamforth, B
Bamforth, E
Bamforth, F
Bamforth, J W
See details for all 212 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 252
Served and returned: 212
Died: 40
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Base
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIALS by WESTWOOD,F AND FEATHERSTONE,A 323-325 Source: Image Library UKNIWM OFFICE Published:PRIVATE 2003
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