Status:
On original site
Type:
Freestanding
Location:
External
Setting:
Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description:
CWGC style Cross of Sacrifice
Lettering:
Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial:
Location - situated at the bottom entrance to the Cemetery on Blacker Road approximately one mile from Huddersfield Town Centre and in close proximity to the Spinks Nest Public House. Description – a three tiered six sided monument with a tall cross
The period commemorated is 1914 – 1919 and 1939 – 1945
The Inscription on the third tier reads:
This cross of sacrifice is one in design
and intention with those which have
been set up in France and Belgium and
other places throughout the World
where our dead of the
Great War are laid to rest
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
At the rear of the monument there is a walled area with five (5) plaques in the centre with a smaller plaque either side to the left and to the right
Names and plaques
Small left hand side plaque
These Soldiers
and this Airman
lie buried in
Emmanuel
Churchyard
Lockwood
Private Harold Haigh
West Yorkshire
30.12.1918
2nd Airmech H. B. Lee
Royal Air Force
23.6.1918
Sergt. A. H. H. Bamford
Corps Pioneer
7.1.1941
Small right hand side plaque
These Soldiers
lie buried in
Zion Methodist
Burial Ground
Lindley
Private W. Bray
Duke of Wellington’s
31.5.1916
Private B. Brook
Royal Army Service Corps
6.12.1919
Corporal N. Dyson
Royal Field Artiller
9.12.1918
Private H Milnes
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
12.9 1920
Private G. H. Moore
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
28.6.1916
Large plaque No 1
143880 Staff Sergt. P. Arnold
Royal Engineers
29.6.1919 11B 116
12677 Private J. E. Banbury
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
23.6.1917 6684G
267713 Private F. Barraclough
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
28.10.1917 11B 125
52008 Private B. Birrell
King’s Own Yorkshire L. I
22.12.1918 11B 116
3024 Lance Cpl. J. T. Bower
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
27.4.1918 11B 116
L / 32570 Gunner S. Burke
Royal Field Artillery
5.6.1916 60 117G
45400 Sergt. C. H. Callaghan
Royal Field Artillery
30.12.1917 Age 30 11B 116
R / 21684 Rifleman J. L. Cockayne
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
3.9.1916 11B 125
Large plaque No 2
100109 Driver P. Daly
Royal Field Artillery
25.3.1916 11B 115
24866 Private T. H. Dobson
East Yorkshire Regiment
7.1.1919 Age 34 3B 48
8035 Private W. E. Fowle
Norfolk Regiment
5.3.1919 Age 41 11B 116
15 / 11 Private B. G. Gopsill
Royal Warwickshire Regt.
16.12.1916 Age 22 11B 125
C / 6135 Rifleman P. Hepworth
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
22.12.1916 3B 57
10425 Private F. Hunt
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
5.1.1917 11B 125
1765 Private L. L. Kenneally
Royal Army Medical Corps
4.3.1919 Age 36 17 R 44C
Large plaque No 3
To the
honoured memory of
one hundred and
three members of
His Majesty’s Forces
who gave
their lives for
their Country
in the Great War
1914 – 1918
Sixteen lie buried in
Lockwood Cemetery
and eighty seven in
this cemetery
but the graves of
these twenty nine
are not marked by
separate headstones
Large plaque No 4
11939 Private A Kenny
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
13.12.1915 11B 115
91734 Driver W Le Vasseur
Royal Field Artillery
2.11.1917 11B 125
35929 Private R. A. Muirhead
Highland Light Infantry
3.1.1919 11B 116
234150 Private R. L. Murray
2nd Bn London Regt. R. Fus
16.12.1917 Age 20 11B 125
1572 Private F Parkinson
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
15.5.1916 11B 115
242189 Private T Payton
Highland Light Infantry
5.1.1920 17R 43
44074 Private J Revell
Lincolnshire Regiment
12.6.1918 Age 27 11B 116
Large plaque No 5
2066 Corporal D Shaw
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
20.12.1915 Age 20 11B 115
490 Private W Shaw
Queens Bays
6.12.1915 11B 115
129768 Private T Stanley
Royal Army Medical Corps
28.6.1918 11B 116
6570 Driver J Stephenson
Royal Field Artillery
29.5.1921 11B 117
268180 Private W Thompson
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
18.9.1919 11B 117
140495 Gunner B Wilson
Royal Field Artillery
23.10.1916 11B 125
12416 Private R Wright
The King’s Liverpool Regt
5.5.1915 11B 115
203657 Private J Eccles
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
14.3.1918 3B 137
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