Compstall War Memorial

Compstall War Memorial is sited in the grounds of St.Paul's Church, at the bottom of Compstsall Brow just round the corner from Etherow Country Park. It commemorates 31 local men who died during the Great War.

The memorial is in the form of a cross on a tapering plinth, and is sat on four octagonal steps.

The main inscription reads.

TO THE GLORY

OF GOD AND

IN PROUD AND

LOVING MEMORY

OF THE

MEN OF COMPSTALL

WHO LAID DOWN

THEIR LIVES IN

THE GREAT WAR

1914-1919

The men commemorated.

Arthur B BARDSLEY

Colin BARTON

Horace BEARD

Mark BOOTH

C Oliver BREED

James BUTTERWORTH

William COURTNEY

Herbert DANCE

Thomas H DANVERS

Robert M DICKSON

Fred ETCHELLS

Maurice FROGGATT

Edgar HADFIELD

Herbert INGHAM

Albert L KNOWLES

Frank KNOWLES

J Hilton MOORES

Edward MYCOCK

Andrew NAVEN

Edward J NAVEN

Robert PICKFORD

William POTTS

Benjamin A ROWBOTTOM

William H SIMPKIN

Albert SMITH

Robert E SPEAKMAN

Frank WATERS

George WATKIS

Richard W WILLIAMSON

James WILSON

James WOOD

All photographs by Chris Gleave