Ashton-under-Lyne War Memorial

The Memorial was unveiled and dedicated on 22nd September 1922 and commemorates 1514 men who were killed in the Great War with 300 listed from the Second World War. It is located in Memorial Gardens at the end of Mossley Road in Ashton-under-Lyne. There are two tablets remembered those who have died in other conflicts since 1945.

The main plaque reads.

ERECTED IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE AND DISTRICT

WHO FOUGHT FOR KING AND EMPIRE IN

THE GREAT WAR ESPECIALLY THOSE

WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES AND

WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED HEREON

1914  -  1919

1939  -  1945

BELGIUM

FRANCE

GALLIPOLI

EGYPT

ITALY

MESOPOTAMIA

AFRICA

TURKEY

MACEDONIA

RUSSIA

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

Frederick George Birchall - Hyde

Indonesia - Royal Australian Air Force

April 17 1946

Leslie Hunt - Denton

Palestine - Royal Corps of Signals

June 4 1946

Sam Winterbottom - Hyde

HMS Saumarez

October 22 1946

Dennis Higginbottom - Ashton-under-Lyne

Palestine - Royal Ulster Rifles

October 30 1946

Thomas Nelson Berry - Hyde

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

March 20 1947

Colin Malcom Bailey - Ashton-under-Lyne

Malaya - Royal Artillery

January 19 1949

John Ronald Hall - Ashton-under-Lyne

Malaya - Grenadier Guards

March 12 1949

Wilfred Hewitt - Dukinfield

Korea - Royal Artillery

April 23 1951

Peter Norman Latham - Denton

Korea - Royal Corps of Signals

December 16 1951

Eric Halkyard - Denton

Vietnam - Royal Australian Regiment

January 16 1971

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn

Tony Downes - Droylsden

Afghanistan - Grenadier Guards

June 9 2007

Mack Stansfield - Hollingworth

Iraq - Royal Logistic Corps

September 21 2007

Joseph Etchells - Mossley

Afghanistan - Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

July 19 2009

Sean Dawson - Stalybridge

Afghanistan - Duke of Lancasters Regiment

February 14 2010

Harvey Alex Holmes - Hyde

Afghanistan - Mercian Regiment

May 2 2010

Andrew Breeze - Audenshaw School

Afghanistan - Mercian regiment

June 12 2010

All photographs by Chris Gleave