Birstall War Memorial

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Details,
Photos,
Location by map,
Inscriptions,
Names and plaques

Details

Situated in the Church yard opposite St. Peters Parish Church in Birstall.
The period commemorated is 1914 – 1919 and 1939 – 1945.

Description – a three tiered octagonal base with a square tier on top leading to a tall column in the shape of a cross.

Photos

Location by map

The marker Google marker represents the location of the war memorial in Birstall.

Inscriptions

The top square tier as the Inscription at the front which reads:

Sacred to the Honoured
memory of the Men of Birstall
who gave their lives for
King and Country in the
Great War - 1914 - 1918

Their names liveth for evermore

The names of the men who died for their country from Birdsedge and District are on a plaque in Birdsedge Village Hall

Names and plaques

1914 - 1918
Right hand side of square tier

Willie Akeroyd
Harry Alderson
William H. Allott
P. Banks
Harry Batley
Isaac E. Baxter
James H. Baxter
Walter Baxter

Arthur Barker
J. S. Bennett
Percy Beaumont
George Binks
P. Blaber
Harold Bromley
Clifford Bruce
Walter Burnley

1914-1918
Rear of square tier

Fred Berry
Robert Birbeck
Ernest L. Briggs
Thomas Byrne
Victor Church
Harry Clayton
Percy Clegg
Willie Clegg

Ben Clough
Reginald Craven
Arthur Craven
Charles Day
Herbert Darnsbrook
Martin Duffy
George W. Ellis
Thomas Fawcett

1914-1918
Left hand side of square tier

Herbert Firth
Arthur Firn
Willie Fisher
William Fisher
John Flanagan
Harold Freeman
John Frain
Frank Furniss

J. Garner
John Goodall
Harold Greenwood
Joseph Hare
Wilfred Haigh
Isaac Haley
William Haley
Dennis Hartley

1914-1918
Octagonal third tier anti – clockwise

T. W. Hepworth
Harry Hirst
Raymond Hirst
B. Hinchcliffe
W. P. Kitson
J. H. Kitson
T. Lambert
H. Lawrenson
Horace Naylor
A. E. Overend
John Overend
B. Parkinson
C. W. F. Sayers
R. W. Saville
Herbert Shires
Walter Shires

T. Housecroft
Fred Holmes
Nelson Holmes
Norman Holmes
John Lees
John F. Locke
E. B. Longbottom
Thomas Linch
P. Parkinson
A. P. Parkin
Willie Phelps
Tom Platts
Ernest Sill
Fred Smithson
Robert Smith
F. C. Smith

H. Hutchinson
C. Hutchinson
J. W. Inwood
Willie Jowett
Percy Kilburn
James D. Lyon
Arthur Mann
J. Marshall
Ernest Platts
E. Pollard
J. Randle
H. Radford
Thomas Smith
Clarence Smith
E. Stirzaker
D. Sheard

Charles Jubb
James Judge
Charles Kaye
John Kilkenny
P. A. Margetts
Watson Maude
Arthur Moore
Frank Melvin
Edward Rowan
R. Rodgers
J. Richardson
J. J. Sayers
Leonard Stone
H. Tomlinson
B. Thornton
Henry Ward

1914-1918
Octagonal second tier- rear

F. Wilson
C. Wilson
L. Wilson

George Wright
H. Radforth
A Weavill

Harry Yates
C. Dewhurst
James Lyons

1914-1918
Octagonal first tier – front

Clifford Crowther
John Mitchell
Jack Holmes

Additional section at the front of the Monument

To the Glorious
Memory of those who
died in the
1939 – 1945 War

1939-1945

Eric Lawrence. Brown
Kitty Blamires
Sarah Byrom
James Carr
Harry Crossley
Luke Farrar
James Henry Fenton
William Alexander Fiddes
Francis Frederick Fordham
Leonard Haywood
William Haywood
Douglas Holmes
Walter Holmes

Leslie Horton
Mary McLoughlin
John Maguire
Arthur Miller
Allan Muris
Arthur Parkinson
Robbie Ramsbottom
Norman Victor Riley
Clifford Senior
Geoffrey Smith
James Smith
Harry Wilkinson

1914-1918
Addenda

Albert Bloomfield
William H. Graham
A. B. Honeybone
Albert E. Illingworth
F. Jackson
George Lees
John Marchbanks
Richard H. Martin

T. Martin
John O’Brien
John H. W. Rhodes
A. Smith
Charlie Spink
William Stainthorpe
George S. Whitehead

1939-1945
Addenda

Walter Ackroyd
George E. Benson
Clarence F. Brown
John Carbutt
Stanley L. Foxton

Francis Gess
Clifford Lockwood
Eric Stansfield
George Staples

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Birstall War Memorial

1914 - 1918 Right hand side of square tier

1914-1918 Rear of square tier

1914-1918 Left hand side of square tier

1914-1918 Octagonal third tier anti – clockwise

1914-1918 Octagonal second tier- rear

1914-1918 Octagonal first tier – front