Dunscar War Memorial

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Reference WMO/110558

Address:

Blackburn Road,

Egerton,

Bolton,

BL7 9RZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Falklands Conflict (1982)
About the memorial: Copper sculpture set on a tapered stone pedestal, with a plinth and 3-stepped base. The sculpture depicts a soldier bearing his pack, standing with bowed head, and resting upon his upturned rifle. Situated on A666 (Blackburn Road) at the junction with B6472 at OS grid reference SD 71311 14034, within a small garden. 3 sides bear the names for WW1. There is a plaque for WW2 and another plaque for the Falklands Conflict.
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On the front face of the monument 'OUR GLORIOUS DEAD _ THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EGERTON , EAGLEY, DUNSCAR AND BROMLEY CROSS WHO FELL DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 _ LEST WE FORGET. Falklands Conflict _ 2nd April-14th June 1982 _ John David Stroud STD RN HMS GLAMORGAN _ At the going down of the sun and in the morning _ we will remember them.

WW1: Harry Ainsworth, Charles Allen, Samuel Allen, John Anderson, William Andrews, Arthur Baker, Fred Baxter, Thomas Bell, Fred Bentley, Harry Bentley (North'd Fus), Harry Bentley (RGA), Harry Bland, Francis Bookes, John Booth, John Briggs, Herbert A. Brown, Walter Charnock, Cyril Cooper, Samuel Cooper, Robert Corless, George A Cowley, James Croft, Herbert Crook, George Crowshaw, Fred Davies, Edward Dean, James Dean, James Duane, Herbert Faulkner, Richard Fell, John Fletcher, Charles E Gallagher, David Gardner, William H Gilliver, Fred Green, John T Greenbank, Harold Greenhalgh (LNL), Harold Greenhalgh (RFA), Joseph H Greenhalgh, Arthur T Greg, Robert P Greg, Thomas Griffin, James Hacking, Harry Hadfield, George Hall, Robert Hall, Sydney Hall, James Halliwell, John Halliwell, Harry Hamer, James O Hamer, William Hardman, Alfred Hardy, Harry Hardy, Ernest Hargreaves, Herbert Hargreaves, John Hargreaves, Richard T Harrison, Ernest Haslam, Fred Haslam, William Haydock, William Hetherington, William Hindle, John Hodgson, Robert Hodgson, Ernest Holt, Robert Hornby, John Horrocks, Dionysius Howarth, Fred Howarth, Paul Howarth, James Hoyle, Thomas Hulme, Fred Hurst, Samuel C Isherwood, William Jones, Charles W Kay, Sydney Kay, Thomas Kay, Charles Larkin, William Leyland, William Lomas, Harold Lord, Joseph Maden, William Martin, Frank Mayoh, Robert Mayoh, Hector McLellan, John Middleton, Harold Morris, John Morris, John R Nuttall, James Oddie, Robert Openshaw, John Parker, Walter Partington, Charles Ratcliffe, Evan Roberts, Thomas Roberts, Kenneth Robinson, John Sharples, Edward Singleton, Richard Singleton, Harold Slater, Joseph Smith, Ralph Southern, Richard H Southern, Harry Speak, Robert Stephenson, William Stones, Robert W H Stott, Harry R Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Fred Thompson, James Thompson, Edward A Thomson, Joseph T Thornton, Charles Thornton, Robert Travis, Robert Turner, George W Tyrer, Frank Waddicar, George Waddilove, John Walsh, George Warburton, Hargreaves Waterhouse, Charles Webster, Frank J Whittle, Robert Whittle, Harry Wolstencroft, Edward Worrall, Thomas Worthington. WW2: A Archer, R T Dixon, J Dugdale, F Ford, W N J Gilliver, J Halliday, F Halliwell, J Herd, N Mayoh, T H Pearcey, W A Sandys-Clarke, H Spencer, J Terry, J Topham, J Wood. Falklands: David Stroud.

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