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    © Imperial War Museums 2026

    Memorial

    Vale Baptist Church, Cornholme - WW1 and WW2

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    Current Location

    Vale Baptist Church, Burnley Road, Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, OL14 8JY, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SD 91130 26211

    Denomination

    Baptist

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    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • Jonas W Crowther

    • Jonathan Dawson

    • Walter Farrer

    • Irving Greenwood

    • Frank Helliwell

    • Othello Howarth

    • Ezekiel G Howarth

    • Willie Ogden

    • John Pickersgill

    • Ronald Pilling

    • Edmund J Priestley

    • Clifford Riley

    • Ronald Shackleton

    • Ernest Southwell

    • Harry Stott

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    2641
    Description
    White marble tablet, pitched at top, with shelf at base, incised lettering. Carved laurel wreath and ribbon in pediment at top.
    Inscription
    HONOUR TO THE BRAVE/IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/THE FOLLOWING MEN FROM THIS/CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHO MADE/THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" JOHN 15.13
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    2
    Died
    2
    Information shown
    Forename, surname
    Order of names
    Alphabetically by surname
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    16
    Died
    16
    Information shown
    Forename, initials, surname
    Order of names
    Alphabetically by surname
    Maintenance History
    Stored in outer porch

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    12 Sep 1920

    Rev V. R. Horner

    Custodian
    Yorkshire Baptist Association

    Components

    Backboard

    Made from: Slate


    Condition: Good


    Tablet

    Height: 1000mm

    Width: 970mm


    Made from: Marble - White


    Condition: Good


    • See Halifax Weekly Guardian, 18th September 1920
    • Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 907