Cheddleton Memorial Lynch Gate

The stone memorial lynchgate is next to St Edward's church on Hollow Lane in Cheddleton, at the entrance to the churchyard extension.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN THANKFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM

CHEDDLETON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE

CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AND IN

DEFENCE OF OUR HOMES IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 TO 1919

CAPT T HUMPHREY SNEYD

PTE HAROLD JAMES

SGT J PERCY HARE

PTE ARTHUR E REECE

PTE GEORGE GOLDSTRAW

CORP W W GOLDSTRAW

L CORP W W BLAKEMAN

PTE THOMAS L BLAKEMAN

PTE FRED CHELL

PTE GEORGE JOHNSON

PTE HORACE OWEN

PTE CHARLES R WARDLE

PTE ALBERT HANDLEY

PTE VICTOR RENSHAW

PTE THOMAS WARDLE

PTE T HENRY RICHARDSON

PTE FRANCIS WILLSHAW

SGT JAMES BARBER

PTE J ARTHUR PLANT

PTE THOMAS E RODGERS

PTE CHARLES R DAWSON

PTE FRED COPESTAKE

SGT ARTHUR PEARSON

PTE WILLIAM H RHEAD

PTE TOM JAMES

PTE CHRISTOPHER MELLOR

LT BAZIL E C BOUCHER

PTE FRANK TATTON

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN THANKFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM

CHEDDLETON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE

OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AND IN THE DEFENCE

OF OUR HOMES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1939 TO 1945

GNR CLIFFORD BLAKEMAN

PTE EDWARD CONNOR

A S ALFRED DUNDRIDGE

C S M WILLIAM FINNEY

LAC WOP/AG HAROLD T GARBETT

PTE CHARLES M KENT

SGT WILLIAM R MARTIN

SGT LESLIE MAYDEW

PTE GEOFFREY MORTON

SGT GEOFFREY LEEDHAM

A B CYRIL PLANT

SGT NICHOLAS PRINGLE

GEOFFREY C PURSLOW

MB CHB LCRP MRCS

PTE JACK RENSHAW

GNR DONALD SUTTON

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARTE LEFT GROW OLD

AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN

At the rear of the gate is a plaque rembering those who have died since WW2.

ON ACTIVE SERVICE

PTE D BONSALL

29.3.1975

PYE J E WILKES

22 10 1947

L/CPL S GREENFIELD

WHO DIED 4th MARCH 2012

AGED 29

Photographs by Chris Gleave.