Situated on Vicarage Road in Thornhill Lees approximately one mile from Dewsbury town centre and near to Savile Town. The memorial is on the north facing wall of the church near to the altar.
A large wooden memorial plaque detailing the men and women of Holy Innocents Church who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War I and World War II.
There is also a bronze plaque in the church near the main memorial.
St Mary's Church in Savile Town was demolished in the early 1960s and the memorials were transferred to Holy Innocents Parish Church in Thornhill Lees where they remain today.
Inscriptions
The main memorial inscription reads:
To the Glory of God
The bronze plaque inscription reads:
In Loving Memory of
The St Mary's Parish Church First World War Memorial inscription reads:
To the Glory of God and in
The St Mary's Parish Church Second World War Memorial inscription reads
:
To the Glory of God and in grateful remembrance of the men
Plaques and names
1914-1918 Main plaque.
First Name Last Name
Arthur Allatt
John Wm. Armstrong
Philip Beaumont
Albert Bird
Walter Booth
Herbert Booth
Joe Brook
Sydney Brooke
James Bulmer
John Wm. Burton
Edward Burton
Emmanuel Butler
Ramsden Byrne
Willie Chapman
Ernest Cockburn
Arthur Collins
Percy Crowther
Norman Dennison
Ernest Denton
Alfred Hy. Dixon
John By. Dixon
Alonzo Driver
John Wm. Ellis
William Be. Field
Walter Vr. Fligg
Ernest Greenwood
Fred Handley
Herbert Harris
Sam Hawkswell
Herbert Cd. Heaton
Clifford Holmes
John Wm. Holmes
George Ineson
Percy Johnson
Harry Johnson
Leonard Kendrick
George Kershaw
Smith Kimmings
Thomas Hy. Lee
George Leuty
Charles Machin
John Machin
Arthur Mallinson
John Hy. Marriott
Ernest Mason
Malcolm Medd
Harry Morris
John Wm. Oakley
Howard Oates
Reginald Oldroyd
Hubert Peace
John R. Pennock
William Nn. Podmore
James Sn. Radforth
Archie Robinson
Isaac Rothery
Frank Scott
Thomas Scott
Nelson Secker
Ernest Senior
Percy Senior
Ernest Smith
William Hy. Smith
Herbert Smith
George Smith
Charles Wn. Smith
Charles Speight
Sam Steele
Paddy Stones
Percy Summerscales
Vyner Sykes
James Tighe
Lewis Tinker
Norman Tomlinson
Frank Tomlinson
William Thompson
Willie Wainwright
Seth Walker
Henry Walshaw
Anthony Wear
Joseph Wear
John West
Harold Wilby
James Jr. Windle
1939-1945 Main plaque.
First Name Last Name
Arthur Barnes
Herbert Bedford
Tom Cooper
George Gerald Etchells
Ernest Etherington
Edward Hart
Cyril Hirst
Geoffrey Horner
John Brooks Gascoigne
Ernest Johnson
Geoffrey Leech
James McNally
George Rowley
George Arthur Seabrook
John Richard Walton
Ronald Hardcastle
1914-1919 St Mary's Parish Church First World War Memorial.
Mine eyes look upon such, as are faithful in the land and they may dwell with me. Psalms CL
First Name Last Name
John Ashworth
Harry Barclay
Leonard Batley
Thomas Bennett
William Benson
Ernest Blamires
Edgar Bowyer
Joseph Bowyer
Sydney Brooke
George Cartwright
Lewis Cowling
Garnett Crawshaw
Harold Evans
James Ewart
Robert Ewart
William Ewart
John Ferguson
John Goddard
Norman Goddard
Charles Hall
Thomas Harper
Sam Hawkswell
Thomas Hemingway
Joseph Horsley
Clarence Ingham
Arthur Johnson
Fred Johnson
Thomas Kitson
William Langley
Leonard Lee
Stanley Lee
Arnold Lightfoot
Arthur Lightfoot
Ernest Lightfoot
Rowland Littlewood
George Markham
Ben Morton
Fred Morton
John Myers
Arthur Oates
Arthur Oldroyd
Joseph Pickard
Harry Pickles
Sam Pickles
Stanley Politt
Fred Scarry
Robert Scott
Max Skelsey
Charles Stead
Archie Sugden
Arnold Swinthenbank
Thomas Thompson
Joseph Watson
Joe Webster
Orlando Walker
Percy Walker
Ernest Whitaker
Wilfred Whitaker
Herbert Wragg
Simpson Wragg
1939-1945 St Mary's Parish Church Second World War Memorial.
First Name Last Name
David Asquith
Teddy Bratt
Rex Castle
Joseph Douglas
Herbert Elsworth
Rennie Firth
Ernest Greaves
Norman Haigh
Granville Hemingway
Herbert Holmes
Thomas Issott
Sam Mallinson
Jack Parlar
Harold Twose
Willie Watson
Jack Wood
Gordon Wright
Harry Wright
Arthur Brewer
Mary Ann Scott
Enid Scott