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Reference WMO/139593

Address:

St Helen's Gate

Almondbury

Huddersfield

HD4 6SG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Other
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Situated in the Library of King James School in St. Helens Gate Almondbury. The period commemorated are 1914 – 1919 and 1939 – 1945 There are three plaques / memorials in the school with the details as follows:- 1.Old Boys of King James School who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1919 2. Old Boys who lost their lives in World War 2 3. Old Boys from World War 1 and 2 who lost their lives. (This is a new memorial plaque) 1. Old Boys of King James school who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1919 A Bronze Memorial Tablet mounted on the west facing wall in the main library. The Memorial reads ‘In honoured memory of the following old boys of Almondbury Grammar School who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1919 H. N. Aston H. H. Kaye W. Armitage G. C. Lunn E. Haigh H. A. Liversedge J. W. Armitage C. Lawton B. Beadon C. L. Langrick J. H. Beaumont G. E. Medley A. E. Buller W. Naylor R. F. Buller R. C. Proctor G. W. Barraclough G. E. Pexton G. Bairstow F. Quarmby S. Blackburn L. Roebuck R. H. Booth G. L. Railton J. W. Carter R. Sykes G. A. Cartwright N. Sykes H. Cragg H. Sharp W. O. Davies A. Stead N. Clayton E. H. Trimmer J. B. Ditchburn F. Thornton G. F. Dearnley C. H. Wilson T. A. Girling P. Walker P. Gledhill H. Waite E. A. Hollingworth F. B. Woffenden H. Jerram ‘Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of Life’ Erected by the Old Boys Society ************************* 2. Old Boys who lost their lives in World War 2 A Memorial book by Edward Akroyd with the names inscribed in vellum held in an Oak bookcase designed by Robert Thompson of Kilburn. (Mouse man) The inscription reads In Memoriam 1939 – 1945 Roll of Honour George Henry Fearnley Adams 1926-1931 Derek Norman Armitage 1934-1941 Geoffrey Frederick Bamforth 1935-1940 Joe Beever 1932-1937 Kenneth Lennox Benson 1934-1941 Ronald Howard Beaumont 1934-1939 Woodrow Brooks 1919-1922 Tom Duncan Bower 1934-1936 Peter Davenport Carter1933-1936 Ronald Sykes Carter 1925-1933 Harold Dyson 1921-1923 Marcus Langley Dyson 1932-1934 John Garratt Firth 1923-1929 Ronald Preece Goddard 1934-1938 Eric Hepworth 1924-1928 Reginald Henry William Hirst 1919-1923 John Lemuel Holloway 1930-1934 Charles Anthony Howard 1927-1928 Owen Ellis Hulme 1926-1932 Wilton Miller 1929-1930 Frank Morley 1932-1936 Ronald Oldroyd 1932-1937 Alfred Payne 1921-1922 Frank Pickard 1921-1926 John Robertshaw 1927-1933 George Vincent Rogers 1925-1929 Jack Roe 1932-1934 Peter Shaw 1933-1937 Geoffrey Stead 1932-1938 David Steele 1929-1932 Joseph Storer 1927-1930 Paul Douglas Swallow 1931-1936 John Sykes 1927-1932 Conrad Gallimore Wenyon 1935-1937 Norman Whitehead 1933-19 They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. *********************** 3. Old Boys from World War 1 and 2 who lost their lives This is a new memorial plaque on the wall in the Old Dining Hall (ODH) and was erected as part of the 400th Anniversary of the School in 2008 The inscription reads:- A list of the former students of King James’s School who lost their lives in the two major conflicts of the 20thCentury First World War 1914 -18 Second World War 1939 – 45 A. Appleyard H. H. Kaye G. H. F. Adams O. E. Hulme W. Armitage C. L. Langrick D. N. Armitage W. Miller H. N. Aston C. Lawton G. F. Bamforth F. Morley G. Bairstow H. A. Liversedge J. Beever R. Oldroyd S. Blackburn G. C. Lunn K. L. Benson A. Payne G.W. Barraclough G. E. Medley R. H. Bolton F. Pickard B. Beadon W. Naylor T. D. Bower J. Robertshaw J. H. Beaumont G. E. Pexton W. Brooks J. Roe R. H. Booth F. Quarmby P. D. Carter G. V. Rogers A. E. Buller G. L. Railton R. S. Carter P. Shaw J. W. Carter L. Roebuck H. Dyson G. Stead G. A. Cartwright H. Sharp M. L. Dyson D. Steele H. Cragg A. Stead J. G. Firth J. Storer W. O. Davies N. Sykes R. P. Goddard P. D. Swallow G. F. Dearnley R. Sykes E. Hepworth J. Sykes J. B. Ditchburn F. Thornton R. H. W. Hirst C. G. Wenyon T. A. Girling E. H. Trimmer J. L. Holloway N. Whitehead P. Gledhill H. Waite C. A. Howard E. A. Hollingworth P. Walker H. Jerram F. P. Woffenden
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