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Stanley, War Memorial transcription:

database file source="h:/!Genuki/WM2transcriptionsToHtml/INPUT/WRYHaydnScott.txt" Photograph of the War Memorial on the wall of St. Peter's Church, Stanley.

Please note that St Peter's was closed in 2001, and was subsequently demolished in 2014.
The Memorial plaques (to the "Men of Stanley"), have now been placed on a new memorial
which stands adjacent to the site of the original church towers.[Christopher Ramsden]

To the Glory of God
and in grateful memory of the men of Stanley
who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918

Albert AmblerThomas HawkesRobert L Porter
Joseph W AndersonH Stanley HaworthWilliam T Poulter
Arthur W ArmitageJames R HensbyWilliam Raby
Terry AsquithAbraham HepworthAlbert Ramsden
Charles BallThomas H HinesAlbert Rose
Harry BarleyAlvin HolroydAlbert E Rushworth
Frank BeightonTom HoranHerbert H Sampson
Wilfred BettneyHammil HowarthCharles Senior
Lawrence BeverleyArthur HumphreyAlbert Smith
E Norman BradleyEdmund HumphreyArthur Smith
Harry BramfootRichard JamesFrederick J Stageman
Herbert BrookeHarold LittlewoodAlan Stead
James H BrownWilliam LunnBertie Tate
Frank BurkinshawA Robert MoateWilliam E Tate
Harold BurnleyJoseph MytonJosiah Taylor
Henry ClarksonJames T NewbyP Frank Todd
Spencer CliftonWilliam NewbyAlbert Ward
Thomas W DobinsonHenry NicholsonJoseph J Ward
Norman GarrettArthur NorburyThomas Ward
Thomas GowlandKenneth C NorthSidney Waring
Joe HargreavesJoseph E OldroydEdwin M White
Walter HargreavesGeorge PeartHerbert Whiteman
William HarrisThomas H PickardWilliam S Wilson

They gave their all'

This tablet and the peal of bells in the adjoining tower were erected by public subscription

Their name liveth for evermore'

Also 1939-1945

Albert AbsonAlbert E PhilpotLeonard B Stennett
Henry N BalmforthAlexander RamsdenWilliam P Summers
John BlakeyLawrence SmalesJohn C Sykes
Walter White

Data transcribed by
Haydn Scott
from photography by Colin Hinson

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