Birstall

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Reference WMO/133968

Address:

St Peter's Parish Church

Kirkgate

Birstall

WF17 9PS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Situated in the Church yard opposite St. Peters Parish Church in Birstall. Description – a three tiered octagonal base with a square tier on top leading to a tall column in the shape of a cross.
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The top square tier as the Inscription at the front which reads: Sacred to the Honoured memory of the Men of Birstall who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War - 1914 - 1918 Their names liveth for evermore Additional section at the front of the Monument To the Glorious Memory of those who died in the 1939 – 1945 War

1914 - 1918 - Right hand side of square tier- Willie Akeroyd Harry Alderson William H. Allott P. Banks Harry Batley Isaac E. Baxter James H. Baxter Walter Baxter Arthur Barker J. S. Bennett Percy Beaumont George Binks P. Blaber Harold Bromley Clifford Bruce Walter Burnley ; 1914-1918- Rear of square tier - Fred Berry Robert Birbeck Ernest L. Briggs Thomas Byrne Victor Church Harry Clayton Percy Clegg Willie Clegg Ben Clough Reginald Craven Arthur Craven Charles Day Herbert Darnsbrook Martin Duffy George W. Ellis Thomas Fawcett ; 1914-1918 - Left hand side of square tier - Herbert Firth Arthur Firn Willie Fisher William Fisher John Flanagan Harold Freeman John Frain Frank Furniss J. Garner John Goodall Harold Greenwood Joseph Hare Wilfred Haigh Isaac Haley William Haley Dennis Hartley ; 1914-1918 - Octagonal third tier anti – clockwise- T. W. Hepworth Harry Hirst Raymond Hirst B. Hinchcliffe W. P. Kitson J. H. Kitson T. Lambert H. Lawrenson Horace Naylor A. E. Overend John Overend B. Parkinson C. W. F. Sayers R. W. Saville Herbert Shires Walter Shires T. Housecroft Fred Holmes Nelson Holmes Norman Holmes John Lees John F. Locke E. B. Longbottom Thomas Linch P. Parkinson A. P. Parkin Willie Phelps Tom Platts Ernest Sill Fred Smithson Robert Smith F. C. Smith H. Hutchinson C. Hutchinson J. W. Inwood Willie Jowett Percy Kilburn James D. Lyon Arthur Mann J. Marshall Ernest Platts E. Pollard J. Randle H. Radford Thomas Smith Clarence Smith E. Stirzaker D. Sheard Charles Jubb James Judge Charles Kaye John Kilkenny P. A. Margetts Watson Maude Arthur Moore Frank Melvin Edward Rowan R. Rodgers J. Richardson J. J. Sayers Leonard Stone H. Tomlinson B. Thornton Henry Ward ; 1914-1918 - Octagonal second tier- rear - F. Wilson C. Wilson L. Wilson George Wright H. Radforth A Weavill Harry Yates C. Dewhurst James Lyons ; 1914-1918 Octagonal first tier – front Clifford Crowther John Mitchell Jack Holmes ; 1939-1945 - Eric Lawrence. Brown Kitty Blamires Sarah Byrom James Carr Harry Crossley Luke Farrar James Henry Fenton William Alexander Fiddes Francis Frederick Fordham Leonard Haywood William Haywood Douglas Holmes Walter Holmes Leslie Horton Mary McLoughlin John Maguire Arthur Miller Allan Muris Arthur Parkinson Robbie Ramsbottom Norman Victor Riley Clifford Senior Geoffrey Smith James Smith Harry Wilkinson ; 1914-1918 - Addenda - Albert Bloomfield William H. Graham A. B. Honeybone Albert E. Illingworth F. Jackson George Lees John Marchbanks Richard H. Martin T. Martin John O’Brien John H. W. Rhodes A. Smith Charlie Spink William Stainthorpe George S. Whitehead ; 1939-1945- Addenda - Walter Ackroyd George E. Benson Clarence F. Brown John Carbutt Stanley L. Foxton Francis Gess Clifford Lockwood Eric Stansfield George Staples

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