War Memorial, Denby Dale

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Details

  • also known as: Denby Dale and Cumberworth War Memorial
  • location: off Wakefield Road, Denby Dale
  • status: still exists
  • category: war memorial

Inscriptions

Courtesy of Kirklees Museums & Galleries.

The Great War 1914 to 1919

In Memory of the
fallen from Denby &
Cumberworth
Urban District

They shall not grow old
As we are left grow old
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years dismay
At the going down of
Sun and in the morning
We will remember them
First World War
Mark Atkin
Ralph Armfield
Gladston Beever
George Clement Boothroyd
Frank Eaden Cook
Clifford T S. Cunningham
Harry Ellis
Arthur England
Jonathan England
Keble Thomas Evennett
Arthur Firth
Fred Firth
George Edward Gibson
Willie Heeley
Willie Heeley
Charles G Hinchliffe
Jos. Hirst
Thomas Hodge
Ben Howard
George N. Hoyland
Edwin Jackson
Herbert Norton Jackson
Charles Edward Jelfs
Harry Kaye[1]
Thompson Lockwood
Tom C. Littlewood
James Moore
James Willie Peace
Stanley Peace
John Pitchfork
C.T. William Rigby
Archie Roberts
Joseph Bottomley Rotherforth
Willie Schofield
Harry Sheard
Ernest Thackra
John Walshaw
Clarence Widdowson
Willie Wilcock
Arthur Williamson
Joseph Womersley
Hildred Woodhouse
Frank Wray
John W. Wright
Second World War
Walter G. Alexander
Newell Ellis[2]
Roy Hargrave[3]
John Hirst[4]
Alfred Horsley[5]
Donald Mudd[6]
Frank W. Peace[7]
Cyril Schofield[8]
John D. Schofield[9]
Ivor Shodbrook[10]
Gilbert Stringer[11]

Location

The following map shows locations linked to those named on the memorial:

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Probably Harry Kaye (?-1917) of Holmfirth.
  2. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168509/
  3. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2407384/
  4. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2203677/
  5. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2481412/
  6. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2407284/
  7. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/937416/
  8. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2896302/
  9. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2407386/
  10. ↑ The surname is incorrect. This is Ivor Haydn Shobbrook (1915-1945), born in Monmouthshire, Wales. He married Phyllis Horn in 1941 and served as a Corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps (225 Parachute Field Amb), service no. 7520279. He is also commemorated on the war memorial at Grimethorpe. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2041892/
  11. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2407451/