Situated in Station Road in the centre of Slaithwaite.
A tall obelisk column set on an octagonal base.
The periods commemorated are 1914-1919 and 1939-1945.
Inscriptions
The main inscription reads:
To the glory of God
The inscription on the obelisk reads:
To our heroic dead
Plaques and names
1914-1919 Upper tier first panel.
First Name Last Name
Alured T.S. Allen
Hildred Allen
George Armitage
George Atkinson
France Bailey
Walter Bailey
Charley Bamforth
Frank Bamforth
Fred Bamforth
James Bamforth
John W.R. Bamforth
Ronald Bamforth
Thomas J. Bamforth
Tom S. Bamforth
Walter Bamforth
Fred Baxter
Joe Baxter
1914-1919 Upper tier second panel.
First Name Last Name
Percy Baxter
Tom Beaumont
Willie Beckwith
James E. Blakeley
John A. Brook
Willie F. Brown
Edward H. Burrows
Fred Carter
Harry Chappell
Enoch Charlesworth
James E. Chorlton
Walter T.R. Clark
Alfred Clay
Edmond W. Clay
Thomas Clayton
Christopher Copsey
Charlie Cox
1914-1919 Upper tier third panel.
First Name Last Name
Fred Crabtree
Norris H. Crossley
Ernest Crowther
James A. Dearnley
Edward Dyson
George H. Dyson
Hilton Dyson
Hinchliffe Dyson
Sykes Dyson
Harry Eagland
Alexander W. Falconer
Wilfred L. France
Harry Garside
Joe Garside
George T. Goulder
Donald Haigh
Horace Hall
1914-1919 Upper tier fourth panel.
First Name Last Name
Edward D. Hayes
Ewart Hayes
Amos Hirst
Albert Hoyle
Harold Hoyle
John W. Iredale
Charlie Kent
Frank Levell
Tom Lingard
Thomas Lloyd
Fred Lockwood
Arthur Lumb
John Marsden
Herbert Mellor
Frank Milnes
Willie Naylor
Fred Haigh
1914-1919 Upper tier fifth panel.
First Name Last Name
John Nester
John M. Norris
Joseph O’Hara
James Oldham
Tom Parkin
Willie Patterson
James D. Pennington
Ronald Pogson
Thomas A. Pogson
Tom Pybus
Fred Shaw
Harry Shaw
Harry Shaw
Herbert Shaw
Ernest Sutcliffe
David Sykes
Edgar Sykes
1914-1919 Upper tier sixth panel.
First Name Last Name
Edward Sykes
George Sykes
Harold Sykes
Harold Sykes
Hilton Sykes
Hubert W. Sykes
Tom E. Sykes
Jim Sykes
Tom Sykes
Joe Sykes
Arthur W. Taylor
Frank W. Taylor
Harold E. Taylor
Joe Taylor
Alfred Toyne
Frank R. Underwood
Wood Varley
1914-1919 Upper tier seventh panel.
First Name Last Name
Norman Voult
Douglas Waddington
George W.Q. Walker
Harry Walker
John Walker
Lister W. Walker
Joe Walton
James E. Warhurst
John R. Whiteley
Fred Whittaker
Albert Wilkinson
Percy Wilkinson
Harry Wood
Walker Wood
Benjamin Wray
Ben A. Wrigley
Harry Yates
1939-1945 Lower tier first panel.
First Name Last Name
Arthur Scott Adsheard
John F. Barry
Ronald Brierley
Ronald Broadley
George Bannagan
Fred Clay
John Cowling
James Edward Donnelly
Walter Dyson
George England
Walter Gledhill
Leonard Haigh
Leslie Hall
Fred Hirst
Thomas William Horan
John Cunningham McCaskie
Harry Mallinson
Charlie Massie
Jack Miller
Donald Parkin
1939-1945 Lower tier second panel.
First Name Last Name
Norman Crowther Parkin
Sydney Carter Parkin
Henry Rowan
Albert Sharp
Jim Shaw
Lawrence Schofield
Arthur Simpson
George Clarence Sykes
Harold Sykes
Jim Sykes
George Fripp Sykes
Richard Lawrence Verity
Benjamin Walker
Arthur Swales West
William Whittaker
Edgar Whiteley
John Robert Wilkinson
Granville Wood
Donald Wrigley