Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Macclesfield
- Town
- Macclesfield
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), First World War - civilians
- Maker
- THOMAS WEBB & CO
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 19 July 1919
Attended by: MAYOR OF MACCLESFIELD
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 57551
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Current location
Silk Museum
Park Lane
Macclesfield
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 6TJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 91776 73270
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Now demolished
Mill Street Mission
Mill Street
Macclesfield
Macclesfield
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 910 730
Denomination: Methodist
- Now demolished
- Description
- Plaque with raised lettering, ornamentation is a border of ribbons. Note this is the only WW1 memorial in Macclesfield to list a woman - Nurse Sarah Wiggin - but unfortunately adds a superfluous 's' onto the end of her name
- Inscription
- MACCLESFIELD/MILL STREET MISSION/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF/ (names in 2 columns starting with Nurse Wiggin)/ WHO IN THE TIME OF NEED CAME FORWARD/ IN THE SERVICE OF MANKIND/ AND FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE LIBERTIES OF/ EUROPE IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918./ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS" ST JOHN XV.13
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Belfield, William
Burgess, Arthur
Dennerley, John Wm
Findlow, John
Mellor, Alfred
Oakes, F Matthew
Pickering, George Wm
Pomfret, Joseph E
Proffitt, Frederick
Slater, Walter
See details for all 17 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined - First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 100mm, width 650mm
Materials: Brass - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- 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
- Other
- Responsibility
- Macclesfield Museums Trust
- Reference
- Macclesfield Times 25 July 1919 describes the unveiling of the plaque and gives details of names.
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