Bravo Torr Top

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Reference WMO/228837

Address:

Torr Top Street

New Mills

SK22 4BY

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Wall
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Dedicated to the brave men of Torr Top and the surrounding streets and their heroic deeds in World War One. The Board mentioned in the dedication is WMO/259068 which spells the word Torr as Tor (which is the commoner spelling where it refers to hills around there- such as the infamous Mam Tor road)
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Bravo, Torr Top!/This part of New Mills is famed forever by giving its/name to one of the hottest parts of the battle line in France./In Torr Top Street there is a winner of the Distinguished/Conduct Medal and a winner of the Military Medal whilst/in the little street below the Torr Top Mission there is another winner/of the Distinguished Conduct Medal. All honour to Torr Top! Where in England is there/another place so small in area which has so distinguished itself in the war?/Torr Top shall be enshrined in the hearts of New Mills people!/Torr Top, above all other places, should be made a place fit for heroes to live"/High Peak Reporter 1919// Corporal John Cooper of Torr Top Street joined the Sherwood Foresters in/ 1914. He served in France throughout the war. He was both gassed and/ wounded. Corporal Cooper was awarded the DCM 'for Distinguished/ Conduct in the field'. But he had another claim to fame for it was he/ who gave the name Torr Top to a trench in the Ypres area./ The name was printed on a board and appeared on the official/ Military Map. Following the Armistice the board, splattered/ still with the mud of Flanders, was presented to the town./ I.24.d.8.4/ TOR TOP/ TUNNELS

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