Monday 30 July 2018

Marple St.Martin's War Memorial Plaque

The War Memorial Plaque in St.Martin's Church on Brabyn's Brow, Marple, next to the railway station. A glazed wooden carved relief of figure kneeling before an angel, with female figures in background. Relief surmounts three tablets with incised inscriptions.

St Martins Church
Brabyns Brow
Marple
Stockport
Greater Manchester
SK6 5DT

England


The inscriptions read.


THERE APPEARED AN ANGEL UNTO HIM FROM HEAVEN STRENGTHENING HIM
SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS



1914 - - - - 1918

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN


Joseph BOOTH


Francis Edward BRADSHAW-ISHERWOOD

George Bowden BROCKLEHURST

John Sidney BROCKLEHURST

Donald Harlow BUDENBURG

Harold Mathews BURTON

Dennis HALL

William Lucian HANCOCK

Harry George HANCOCK
Frank HARGRAVES
Fred Rowland HASLAM
Bernard Harold HARTLEY
Fred HOPWOOD
Walter Bailey HOPWOOD
Robert Denis HUDSON
Francis Reginald HUDSON
Godfrey Burnside HUDSON
Henry Erris HUDSON
Burt MORRIS
Arthur RHODES
Leonard ROBINSON
James Martin RUTTER
Alfred SUTTON
Granville TAYLOR
David TOTTERDELL
Edward YARWOOD

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE


1939 - - - - 1945
Albert GIBSON
John HAZELHURST
Samuel KIRK
Cyril A SHELDON
Charles Lucas Arnold MALLETT




My page on St.Martin,s Churchyard can be found here

Photos by Chris Gleave.