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    Memorial

    Cragg Vale Parish - WW1 and WW2

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    Current Location

    South aisle, St John The Baptist In The Wilderness Church, Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX7 5TA, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SE 00030 23213

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • Gibson Broadbent

    • Walter Clegg

    • Albert Hartley

    • Wilson Hartley

    • Fred Helliwell

    • Herbert B Heseltine

    • Benjamin Holden

    • Richard Thomas Holden

    • Frank Sheard

    • Ellis Stonehewer

    • Albert Sutcliffe

    • Ralph Walton

    • Sam Wilde

    • Albert Booth

    • Jack Clegg

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    2609
    Description
    WW1 plaque is wall-mounted Nowy-headed bronze plaque on wooden mount. WW2 plaque underneath. Metal plaque with white lettering. Also on wooden mount. Decorative reliefs on WW1 memorial plaque; Laurel wreath at top, flowers and leaves at base.
    Inscription
    (WW1 PLAQUE): ROLL OF HONOUR/ CRAGG VALE/ THESE GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR HUMANITY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1918/ (NAMES)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN /THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" (WW2 PLAQUE): 1939-1945/ (NAMES)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    13
    Died
    13
    Information shown
    Surname, Forename
    Order of names
    Surname, Forename
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    7
    Died
    7
    Information shown
    surname,forename
    Order of names
    surname
    Maker(s)
    • F Osborne and Co. Ltd, Founder / Foundry

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    20th June 1920

    Bishop of Wakefield

    Components

    Plaque

    Height: 1340mm

    Width: 760mm


    Made from: Metal, Bronze


    Condition: Good


    • Hebden Bridge Times 7/25 June 1920
    Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 622