Cheadle Hulme War Memorial

Cheadle Hulme's war memorial is located in a small garden at the junction of Manor Road and Ravenoak Road. The memorial was unveiled 29 May 1921 and lists 86 men from The First and 61 from the Second World Wars. Included on the memorial is James Kirk a Victoria Cross recipient.

The main inscription on the rear reads.

THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT

ARE LEFT GROW OLD AGE SHALL NOT

WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN

THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

A small inscription on the front reads.

ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS

OF CHEADLE HULME

Names from the Great War 1914-1918

Joseph Henry ADAMS
Frank ARCHER
Alfred ATKINSON
Sydney BARBER
Joseph BARDSLEY
William Henry BEECROFT
Edward Overall BLEACKLEY
James BOON
Leonard BROWN
Oliver BRUNT
Alec Whitworth BRYDON
Joseph Stanley BURGESS
Herbert CLARKE
John Howard COOKE
Harry COOPS
John Stanhope CRABTREE
Alexander Martin CUNINGHAM
Harry Wallace DANIEL
Philip Henry Halton DAVIS
Charles DYSON
George Arthur EARDLEY
Gilbert Kershaw FARNWORTH
Frank FOSTER
Harrp Percy FOWLER
John Hooley FOX
Charles Edward FRY
Gerald James GLOVER
John GODDARD
Stanley GRUMMITT
Lewis HALL
Balfour HALLIDAY
John William HALLWORTH
A HARRISON M.M.
Thomas Henry HERD
William Slade HEYWOOD
Donald HOBSON
Zaccheus HOLME
Harry HOOLEY
Alfred John HOULT
Harold Edward HOWES
Stephen William ISHERWOOD
Albert JEPSON
Lawrence Andrew JOHNSON
Desmond Carl JONES
Edwin James JONES
Harry KELCHER
Albert KENYON
James KIRK V.C.*
Francis Arthur Stanley LANSDOWN
Reginald LEAK
Carl LOWTHER
Cyril MARSDEN
Charles Bertram MARSHALL
Cyril Lambert MELLOR
Charles Walter MERRYWEATHER
Frederick Thomas MILLS
Alfred Leonard MUIR
Herbert Henry NIDD M.M.
Alfred Gradwell NORBURY
Arthur Algenon William NUNN
Tom Atcherby PUGH
Cliford RAWLINSON
Herbert Hampson ROFE
John George ROWLINSON
Charles SCHOLES
Albert SHARD
Joseph SIGLEY
William John SIVEWRIGHT
Douglas SMITH
George Outram SMITH
Eric SPRATT
Richard Alfred STONEHEWER
John Fairhurst STOREY
William TATHAM
Samuel Edward TUNSTALL
Charles Greaves TURTON
Alexander Baird TYSON
William H VENABLES
Frederick WALSH M.M.
William James WALTON
Jack WARBURTON
James Bertram WATSON
James WESTHEAD
Frank Simpson WRIGHT

and from the Second World War.

Herbert ABBOTT Brian Frank ADAMS
Charles Gordon BAKER
P BESWICK
John Alan BRATT
Mona Violet BLACK
Alec BURROWS
William BURGESS
Ronald Desmond Greaves CALDECOTT
George Stanley BURROWS
Peter Francis CLARKE
John Herbert CHILD
M CHIVERTON
Ronald Warren DOEL
L COCKER
Douglas Owen COLLINGE
Robert Henry HERFORD
L COOKE
T DAUGHTON
William Victor DOWLING
C EVANS
R GREEN
Brian HILL
D G HARRISON
Sidney Baskerville HORNE
Alfred Edward HOLT
Maurice Bleackley HOPWOOD
Philip HOWARTH
D LOMAS
Thomas Graham HUGHES D.S.C.
J JACKSON
N KELSALL
A J LOMAS
Leslie Hilton KERSHAW
Philip Anthony NEDWILL
C MALLOY
Donald MARSDEN
Herbert James Noel MARSDEN
J F McCAULEY
Peter Thomas RAMSDEN
Charles Stewart NETTLE
George Leslie NORTHCOTE
Ronald PURTELL
John Richard NORTHCOTE
William Frank RAINS
John Clifton WATTS
D RODGER
P C SCAIFE
Peter Davenport SEABROOK
W SEED
Guy Barry TEARE
Albert Edmund TWISS
A THOMAS
Joseph WADSWORTH
Abdulgani YDLIBI
A WEST
J WEST
S WILKINSON
Martin WILLIAMS
G J WILLIAMS
A G YATES
L WORTHINGTON

Memorial pavement to Lieutenant James Kirk V.C.

All photos by Chris Gleave.