St Andrew’s Parish Church Great War memorial board
This is the main Parish Church in Keighley, situated on Church Green at the end of North Street. Several war memorials are in a small memorial chapel set aside for them, to the left of the main altar.
The memorials are The Keighley Boer War Shield, Keighley Great War memorial, Keighley WW2 memorial, St Paul’s Church memorial and higher up on the wall is the standard of the Keighley Old Contemptibles Association, the conservation of which was funded by Keighley Town Council and reinstated by The Men of Worth Project in 2015 with the generous support of the Church Stewards.
Details:
This board was made by J B Bailey & Sons of Keighley and unveiled by Major General H. R. Davis in a special ceremony on 24th March 1923.
The Imperial War Museum’s War Memorial reference number is 28719.
The text on this memorial board reads:
1914 The Roll Of Honour 1919
Remember
| The 85 names are: Ainley, Lewis Edward Armstrong, JE Asquith, Edgar Baker, George Barrett, AJ Beckett, Robert R Binns, Ughtred Birtwhistle, Joseph E Bottomley, Frank Bottomley, William Broster, Robert B Butterfield, AJ Butterfield, R Cooper, Wilson Coward, H Cubiss, Ernest S Dixon, F Dixon, Gordon Dixon, J Fennell, John Gaunt, John Gee, Ronald Gill, A Gostling, John Gott, Ernest Greenwood, J Hall, Scaife Hinchcliffe, Frank Hinchliffe, Victor Holston, Wilfred Jennings, Basil S Keighley, Herbert Lawson, Joseph Laycock, William J Lee, James R Lilley, Arthur Ling, Frank Godfrey Mackwood Lister, RW Little, Harold Little, Stanley Lowndes, Samuel Lund, Ernest |
Lund, Stephen Morgan, William Martin Morrell, Gilbert Muller, Norman Naylor, William Balme Nelmes, W Newton, J Nicholson, C Nixon, E Overton, Tom Pickles, F Pitt, James Postance, Harry Potter, Joe Raistrick, EM Rhodes, G Robinson, JE Robinson, Noble Rooke, Joseph Ross, Joseph Foulds Scott, B Scott, Edmund Clifford Scott, T Shackleton, TS Shuttleworth, Harry Shuttleworth, Herbert Smith, Frank Smith, WHD Smith, WW Smith, Fred Spencer, Ernest Spencer, H Spencer, HM Spencer, JH Spencer, Jack Sykes, Arthur F Thompson, William Wade, Joshua T Walker, JC Watson, John Wilkinson, Frank Wood, Ralph Woodcock, JB |
Who have died the death of honour and are departed in the hope of resurrection to eternal life
Their name liveth for evermore
