Saturday, 24 August 2019

Lindale War Memorial

The Memorial is close to the bowling green located next to church yard, and is visible from the B5271. It has Latin cross on a tapering shaft with a square step on a circular base. The cross stands on a mound in a fenced enclosure.



The inscriptions read.

East Face

TO HONOUR
THE MEMORY
OF

A E ATKINSON
R K BIRCH
C G DEAKIN
T E FALLOON
D HADWIN
R G HUTCHINSON
C KEITH
E C MILLER
J H MILLER
A PAISLEY
F A REDMAN
H SMITH
A SANDHAM
W WOODS
E WOODBURN
C E WHITEWAY

WHO LAID DOWN
THEIR LIVES IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918


West face

TO HONOUR
THE MEMORY
OF

H ATKINSON
ML BIRCH
H GREAVES
J HENDERSON
R NICHOLSON
H SCARBOROUGH
C TAYLOR
S TYSON
F WRIGHT

1939-1945

Round the base reads

TO GLORY FOR ALL
WHO SERVED THEIR
COUNTRY 1914-1918
AND IN GRATITUDE


All photographs by Chris Gleave

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