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Longholme Methodist Church, Rawtenstall |
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War Memorial |
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East Plaque |
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In Gtateful and Loving |
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Memory of the |
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Lads of our Sunday School |
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Who fell in the Great War |
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1914 - 1919 |
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They shall not grow as we that |
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are left grow old |
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age shall not weary them, nor |
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years condemn. |
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South
Plaque |
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North
Plaque |
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Edmund
Ramsbottom |
July 11th 1915 |
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Ernest
Collinge |
July 26th 1917 |
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Robert
Heys |
Oct 12th 1916 |
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John E.
Whittaker |
Jan 14th 1918 |
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George
Nightingale |
April 1st 1917 |
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James
Thompson |
March 24th 1918 |
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Richard
Smith |
April 11th 1917 |
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Rowland
Kitchen |
April 9th 1918 |
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A. John
Benson |
April 12th 1917 |
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Edgar
Pilling |
April 9th 1918 |
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Willie
Thompson |
April 23rd 1917 |
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Jack Lord
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August 8th 1918 |
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Leslie B.
Wyld |
May 6th 1917 |
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Hartley
Holt |
August 23rd 1918 |
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Harry
Fenton |
May 10th 1917 |
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George
Tootal |
Sept 6th 1918 |
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James A.
Sutcliffe |
May 17th 1917 |
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Fred
Sutcliffe |
Oct 3rd 1918 |
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Jack
Fenton |
June 15th 1917 |
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Ernest H.
Holden |
Nov 7th 1918 |
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West Plaque |
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Unnamed at times, at times unknown |
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Our graves lie thick beyond the seas; |
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Unnamed but not by him unknown; |
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"He knows; He sees;" |
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Scrolled Plaque at foot of Memorial |
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1939 - 1945 |
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Arthur Benson |
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Harry Cowpe |
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Harold Dickinson |
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James Finney |
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Robert Fuller |
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Alan Hall |
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Edward Hindle |
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Jack Hoyle |
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George Maskell |
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Robert Seddon |
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Unveiling of the War Memorial |
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29th October 1921 |
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The War Memorial,
which stood in front of the main entrance to the Sunday School on
Bank Street, was unveiled on the 29th of October 1921. It was
moved in the early 1960s when the Sunday School was demolished and
now stands in the Graveyard opposite the Church main entrance. |
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