White Knowle Methodist Chapel

Commemorates those of White Knowle Chapel and Chinley Wesleyan Chapel and School at White Knowle, near Chinley, on the A624 Hayfield Road.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN

SINCERE REMEMBRANCE

OF THE BOYS OF

WHITE KNOWLE CHAPEL

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN

“THE GREAT WAR”.

THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM

ALSO IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
OF THE EFFORTS OF ALL THE

OTHERS WHO SERVED AND WHOSE

LIVES WERE MERCIFULLY SPARED

THEIR NAME SHALL REMAIN FOR EVER

AND THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN

1914 – 1919

JAMES E. HAMER

WILLIAM H. HAMER

GEORGE BARNES

MARK KIRKHAM

IN MEMORY OF

THE BOYS CONNECTED WITH

CHINLEY WESLEYAN

CHAPEL AND SCHOOL

SAMUEL BAINBRIDGE

THOMAS BLEACKLEY

WALTER LEESON

JOHN H. SHARPE

JAMES WEBSTER

JOHN WATERHOUSE

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in the small Churchyard.

Private 4977484 Ernest Briggs HILL.

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 2/5th Bn.

Died 20 17 Oct 1939, age 20.

Son of Ernest and Nora Hill, of Chinley.

HIS MEMORY

IS OUR GREATEST TREASURE,

IN OUR HEARTS

HE WILL LIVE FOR EVER

Photos by Chris Gleave.