Witherslack's War Memorial is located in the churchyard of St.Paul's, It is a granite Celtic wheel cross, mounted on a square tapering plinth with a two stepped square base. There are 18 names inscribed on the plinth 9 from the First and 9 from the Second World War.
The inscriptions read
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
MICHAEL JACKSON
EDMUND ASKEW
WALTER HODGSON
ROBERT A BARBER
WILLIAM BRENNAND
GEORGE PARK
GEORGE W SCOTT
HERBERT PARK
RICHARD D PHILIPSON
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
ECCLUS XLIV.14
1039-1945
GORDON HUGHES
THOMAS H HUDSON
LAWRENCE D LONG
HENRY ATKINSON
JOSEPH SHEILDS
HAROLD MILLIGAN
JOSEPH A SUART
JOHN A HUTTON
ALBERT J NEWTON
All photographs by Chris Gleave
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