Rivington Church - the Fallen of WWI & WWII

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Reference WMO/256957

Address:

Church of the Holy Trinity

Horrobin Lane

Rivington

Horwich

Bolton

BL6 7SE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A marble plaque with a decorated pediment showing a laurel wreath, crown and crossed rifle and sword. The names of the fallen of the First World War are included and an additional plaque has been added below with the names of the fallen from the Second World War.
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Upper plaque - To the Glory of God and in memory of the men who fell in the Great War 1914.1919 Lower plaque - 1939-1945

Upper plaque - Hohn Wm Bain; Roland Foster; Herbert Hitchen; Ed Berry; Wm Farnworth; John King; Ed Berry; Asa Leadbetter; Nathan Birchall; John Parry; T Birchall; Eric Pierce; John Edward Birchall; Eustace Blackburn Ritson; Ryder Doman; Thos Ratcliffe; Jas Edwards; Francis Frank Smith; Wm Evans; Jas Schofield; George Edwards; Benjamin Webster. Lower plaque William Almond; Wm Gordon Ratcliffe; Albert Gaunt; William Spinks.

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