Blackrod War Memorial

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Reference WMO/148014

Address:

Blackrod Cemetery,

Manchester Road,

Blackrod,

Bolton,

BL6 5LS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Cenotaph. It stands at the front of the town cemetery within sight of the road. It lists the names of the dead of the township in both world wars. WW1 43 names. WW2 19 names. In July 2016, following research into the names inscribed on the Memorial, a further 22 names were added to those who fell in the Great War.
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1914 - 1918 To The Glorious Dead. In grateful memory of the men of Blackrod, who gave their lives in the Great War. Their name liveth for evermore. 1939 - 1945 Lest We Forget.

WW1; Robert Alker, John Anderton, Harry Armstrong, William Bailey, Herbert Banks, John E. Birchall, Frank Bolton, Thomas Dowling, William Earl, Harry Gardner, James Gerrard, Leonard Green, Arthur Greenhalgh, Robert S. Gregory, Thomas Hampson, Thomas E. Hargreaves, Robert Hargreaves, Richard Hart, Albert E. Knowles, William C. Maybury, Joseph Metcalfe, Thomas Moss, James Muldoon, George A. Moore, James Owen, John Owen, Owen Owen, William Owens, John C. Partington, James Pendlebury, John Rigby, John Roocroft, Isaac H. Silver, Robert Speak, Harry Sumner, Joseph Tootell, Thomas Turnbull, Joseph Walsh, Alfred Wilkinson, Ralph Wilkinson, Joseph Wood, Egerton L. Wright, Benjamin Yates. Names added in 2016: Fred Amos, Francis Anderton, Harold Banks, Walter Brown, Major Caldwell, Richard Chester, William B Cunliffe, Thomas Darbyshire, Frederick Dickinson, Thomas WE Hall, John W Hatton, James Helme, James Hoole, John Hunt, Edward Jolley, Harry Leigh, Henry F Lundy, Michael Owens, Stanley Taylor, Thomas Walkden, Robert Wightman, John W Winstanley WW2 - ALFRED CROMPTON, HAROLD CROSS, EDGAR EVERIN, ERIS FARRIMOND, ERNEST ISHERWOOD, JOHN EDWARD JONES, HARRY MAWDSLEY, IAN LAMB, JOHN OLLERTON, JACK RUTTER, EDWARD SEDDON, JAMES SEDDON, JOHN SPEAK, ALLAN SPENCER, RICHARD SUTTON, WILLIAM SUTTON, CHARLES WALSH, EDWARD WHITTAKER D.S.M., PHILIP SINGLETON.

Grade II (England)

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