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    Memorial

    Macclesfield Park Green

    Macclesfield Park Green VE Day 2015

    Source: Copyright Rosie Rowley

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    Current Location

    Park Green, Macclesfield, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 7LZ, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SJ 91936 73228

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    Type of Memorial
    Sculptured / Cast group
    WMR Reference Number
    2085
    Description
    Complex sculptural group. Pillar surmounted by a shrouded female figure with bowed head, holding a wreath in left hand and symbolising mourning. Pillar rests on cruciform plinth, on which a figure of Britannia in helmet with banner lays a crown of laurels on the body of a fallen soldier who is reaching for his gas mask. Names of WWI casualties engraved on four pillars around the memorial. Names of WWII casualties on metal tablets affixed to two low walls on either side of main part of memorial. Names of casualties of later conflicts on right side of pillar on main memorial.
    Inscription
    6 o'clock face: THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN/ HONOUR OF MACCLESFIELD MEN WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING/ & EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ UNVEILED BY THE MAYOR OF MACCLESFIELD/ ALDERMAN J G FROST JP SEPTEMBER 21ST 1921 3 o'clock face: FRANCE/ BELGIUM/ EGYPT 12 o'clock face: PALESTINE/ MESOPOTAMIA/ RUSSIA 9 o'clock face: ITALY/ MACEDONIA/ DARDANELLES Pillars : (Names)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    668
    Died
    668
    Information shown
    Rank, surname, forename
    Order of names
    Surname
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    195
    Died
    195
    Information shown
    Surname, forename
    Order of names
    Surname, forename
    War
    20th Century Conflict (1900-1999)
    Number Commemorated
    5
    Died
    5
    Information shown
    Rank, Initials, Surname
    Maker(s)
    • Mr J Millard RSA, Sculptor

    Maintenance History
    Sunday 2nd July 2023: Unveiling of a pillar on which were a further 53 names of Macclesfield WWI casualties which were omitted from the original Park Green memorial

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    21st September 1921

    Mayor of Macclesfield

    Dedicated

    21st September 1921

    Bishop of Chester

    Unveiled

    Sunday 2 July 2023

    Mayor of Macclesfield, Cllr Christopher Wilcock

    Components

    Figures

    Made from: Bronze


    Condition: Good


    Historic England

    Grade: II*

    List Entry: 1220798

    Plinth

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Historic England

    Grade: II*

    List Entry: 1220798

    • Macclesfield Courier and Herald, Saturday 24th September 1921 (3) 'The War Memorial'
    • Carter Postcard Collection
    • War Memorial Committee pages 4621-22
    • http://www.carlscam.com/macclesfield/warmem.htm
    • Cheshire Ancestor-the journal of the Family History Society of Cheshire Volume 45 Issue 3 (March 2015) pages 58-61 for a very detailed biography of Corporal Alexander Clarke MM, one of the men named on this memorial
    • Book-The Fighting McKays of Macclesfield-a story of service and sacrifice with the 22nd, the Cheshire Regiment, by David Hill. This book relates how three brothers-Ernest, Charles and Herbert McKay were killed in WW1, two sisters died in the flu pandemic at the end of the war, another brother-Arthur was killed in Burma in WW2, their father (Robert) died in Macclesfield of fever contracted in the Boer War, and their brother Walter died of fever in South Africa while fighting in the Boer War.