Great Broughton and Little Broughton

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Reference WMO/171033

Address:

Christ Church

Kirklea

Great Broughton

CA13 0NB

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Rough Hewn stone of remembrance, with the top worked into a point, but otherwise unworked apart from the front face, which has the WW1 inscription. There is the relief of a wreath inset into the stone above the names. The stone is sat on a plinth (which has the WW2 names on the front face) and a base. The memorial was unveiled on 5 June 1921 by Major H Ballantyne Dykes DSO and dedicated by the Reverend A Leech. The memorial commemorates 22 local servicemen who fell in the First World War, four men who fell in the Second World War, and one female civilian killed during the Second World War. It is outside the Church, in the Churchyard
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In honoured Memory of/THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/[names]“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS;/THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”/(ALSO J ROUTLEDGE) ALSO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR/1939-1945/[names]

1914-1918- JACK ADAMS/THOMAS WM BEDLINGTON/JOSEPH WM CAVANAGH/ROLAND DALTON/JAMES HARRISON/JOHN IRVING/JOHN PHILIP LISTER/ISAAC OSTLE/JOSEPH PICKERING/TOM PRICE/TOM STEPHENSON ROBINSON/HARRY ROBINSON/ROBERT KIRKBRIDE RENNEY/THOMPSON RENNEY/ EDWARD GILBERT SPEIGHT/HARRY SMITH/WILLIAM SHAW/JAMES STEPHENSON/JOHN SLOAN/DAVID CLARK THOMPSON/JAMES GRAHAM WILKINSON/J ROUTLEDGE 1939-1945-JOHN RITSON GUNSON MM/THOMAS HENRY MOSES/GEORGE LESLIE SUITOR/HARVEY WALLACE/ELIZABETH MOSES; There is also another WW1 casualty-G E Lister, who is buried in a war grave at the Baptist Chapel, died 4 January 1918 (which is to the left of the main entrance door)

Grade II (England)

1457605

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