Sunday, 18 August 2019

Flookburgh War Memorial

The Great War memorial for the men of Flookburgh is in the churchyard of John the Baptist, on the B5278, Station Road. The memorial has a tall cross mounted on a circular base with two steps.



HONOUR TO THE MEN OF THIS
PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR
LIVES THRO’ THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
THE PEACE OF GOD TO ALL WHO
BY THEIR SUFFERINGS STROVE
TO GIVE THEIR COUNTRY PEACE

HENRY ATKINSON
RICHARD BAYLIFF
MICHAEL BAYLIFF
GEORGE BENSON
WILLIAM BENSON
ANTHONY BLAIR
HENRY BRANSDEN
HAROLD BURROW
JOHN CAVENDISH
HENRY CHILTON

THOMAS DAVIS
HENRY HADWIN
WILLIAM HUTTON
FRANK HODGSON
JOHN LANGSTRETH
WILLIAM LANGSTRETH
FRED MACKERETH
JAMES MOORBY
JOHN PRICKETT
JOHN PARK


 PARKER RODGERSON
THOMAS RODGERSON MAN REGT
THOMAS RODGERSON KO REGT
JOHN SMITH
JAMES TOWNSON
HASLAM TYSON
JOHN TOMLINSON
FRANK WEBSTER
JOSEPH WAITE

THE MEMORIAL CLOCK
WAS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL
TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE
OF THE PARISH WHO
FELL IN THE WAR
1939 - 1945


All photographs by Chris Gleave

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