Bramhall War Memorial

This Memorial can be found on Bramhall Lane South opposite the health centre and library. It was unveiled on 23 Dec 1921, and remembers 89 local men who died during the two World Wars.

The front panel reads

WE

REMEMBER

YOU

AND ARE

GRATEFUL

WE

ERECT

THIS

MONUMENT

TO YOUR

HONOUR

AND

MEMORY

The rear panel has the inscription

THEY SHALL GROW
NOT OLD
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT
GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT

WEARY THEM
NOR THE YEARS
CONDEMN

AT THE GOING DOWN
OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER
THEM

The men commemorated.

1914-1918

Sydney BARBER

Joseph BARDSLEY

Bertram BAYLEY

Vernon William Lowndes BAYLEY

Edward BOUSKILL

Ralph BOWETT D.C.M

Frank Smith BROOKS

Alec Whitworth BRYDON

Richard Henry BURGESS

Leslie BUTLER

James Arthur CHAPMAN

Arthur FORD

Thomas Holt GARNER

Henry GRAHAM

Malcom Bennett GREEN

Frank Holden HALLIDAY

Herbert Walter HEATON

Harold Williamson HIGGINS

Harry Ronald HIGGINS

Tom Williamson HOOLEY

Fred HORTON

Stephen William ISHERWOOD

Stanley JEPSON

Desmond Carl JONES

Edwin James JONES

Marcus Guy KENNY

Fred LAMB

David Elland LANGTON

Fred LEAH

Alfred LEE-WOOD

T Arthur MADDOCKS

Alfred Stanhope O'DWYER

Douglas PADFIELD

Frank PEARSON

Samuel PEARSON

John Eric PERCY

George Harold PIKE

Norman PINKERTON

Tom Atcherby PUGH

Alfred James REDFERN

Robert Leigh REDFERN

Robert Bradbury RUSSELL

William John SIVEWRIGHT

Reginald Stanley SPENCER

Geoffrey Rowlandson STEINTHAL

John Stanley WHITLOCK

James Buckley WOOD

1939-1945

John Alexander APPLEBEE

Arthur Fredrick BADDELEY

Harold BAILEY

John Arthur BARLOW

Harry BROOKSBANK

Kenneth Reginald BURROWS

Robert James Glover BURTINSHAW

Frank Harrison BUTTERWORTH

Leonard COCKER

Alexander COLLIE

John Kenneth COLLINS

Godfrey DAWSON

Keith Reginald DEAN

John Lawrence DUKE

John Braddock ELLIOTT

Cyril Charles GIBSON l

George Norman HARDWICK

Peter Kenneth HOPE

Robert Bernard HOPE D.F.C

Stanley Roscoe HOTSON

Ronald Kenneth HOWARTH

Alan IBBOTSON

Alfred Leslie JACKSON

David Lawrence Weaver JONES

William KERSHAW

William Edward Sutton LEES

Lawrence Allen MANNERS

Roy MARPLES D.F.C and Bar

James A McMANUS

Donald William McMICHAEL

Philip Lindsay MORTON

David Russell POLLARD

Peter PROSSER

Stamford Murray SHARP

Philip Edward TURNER

Brian Gordon WALKER

Robert Matley WALMSLEY

Arthur Winder WHITTAKER

Ronald Alexander WILLIAMS

Herbert WILSON

John Mydelton WOOD

Thomas Grahame WOOD

All photographs by Chris Gleave.

Cheadle War Memorial Cheshire

On the junction of Stockport Road, High Street and Manchester Road, Cheadle War Memorial commemorates 97 fallen from World War 1, 54 from World War 2 (including one female) and 8 civilians.

The main inscription reads.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE

WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

1914-1919

"THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN FOR THOSE THAT COM AFTER: AND THE

PEOPLE WHICH SHALL BE BORN SHALL PRAISE THE LORD"

Those commemorated.

William ACTON

Frank ADAMSON

Ronald ADAMSON

George A BAILEY

James BAILEY

Alfred BALL

Arthur BALL

Alec John BARDSLEY

Walter BERRY

Christopher BOLLARD

Charles BRADBURY

Tom BRIDDON

Arthur BROWN

Frank BUXTON

William (Billy) CALLAN

Joseph V CARR

Reginald Stansfield CARR

Walter CARTER

Walter CHANTER

Joseph CHANTLER

James Henry CHESTER

Alfred CHORLTON

John CLIFFORD

Robert CLIFFORD

T COOMBES

Harold Brooks CROSFIELD

William DARBYSHIRE

Sydney DAVIES

George Hugh DAWES

Charles Peter DYKES M.M.

Charles DYSON

Harry EASTWICK

Arthur Eric EVANS

Sidney EVERETT

Fred FINNEY

Philip G FINNEY

John Hooley FOX

Horace FRANKLIN

Peter GALT

Peter Thomas GARVIE

Charles GOODWIN

Edward Oliver HARROP

Ernest HARROP

George T HAWKYARD

John C HODGKINSON

George Arthur HOLDEN

Arthur HOLT

Alfred HOOLEY

Frank HORNE

Albert HOUGH

John HUDSON

Arthur IRELAND

Harold JONES

Arthur LAMB

Alfred LEATHER

Herbert LEATHER

Edward LEE

Frederick LEE

Leonard LEE

Frank LILES

Harold E LILES

Norman C MARRIOTT

Frederick MEDLICOTT

Edward MERCER

Wilfred MIDWINTER

Alexander Nicol MILNE

James MINSHALL

Frank NEWTON

Frederick Major PAULL

Arthur W PERRY

Edwin PICKERING

William PIMBLOTT

Edward John POTTS

William RENSHAW

Robert ROGERS

Herbert J ROSE

Leonard ROUGHTON

Frederick J RUSSELL

Charles RUSSWELL

Percey SAGAR

Ernest John SHEPPARD

William Alfred SMEDLEY

Albert SMITH

Frank Harold SMITH

William SMITHSON

Percy John SOUTHWORTH

John STREET

Harry SUTCLIFFE

George V SWIFT

William S TELFORD

George H THOMAS

Jack WARBURTON

James Frederick WHITWORTH

Robert WILKINSON

Geoffrey WILSON

Harry WISWALL

Thomas Roughton WORTHINGTON

Arthur WRENCH

Charles WRENCH

Fred WRENCH

1939-1945

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

DURING WORLD WAR II

Geoffrey ADAMSON

E ASHWORTH

Horace Gilnow BROOKES

George Arthur BROWN

Harold BROWN

William BROWN

James Derrick CHOULARTON

Fred COATES

James Forbes CUTHBERT D.F.C. and Bar

R DASH

Alfred Edwin DUNN

R DUNN

Thomas William Burnett EMMOTT

Noble FRENCH

Geoffrey GODDARD

Jack Griffiths GORST

Norman HETHERINGTON

Leonard HIGGINBOTTOM

Arthur Raymond HITCHEN

James HITCHEN

Gordon Ewart HOLLAND

Henry HUDSON

A J JONES

Leslie JOWETT

D KENDALL

Samuel KENNEY

Albert Edward KINGHAM

Leonard LEE

Leonard Dalton LEGGETT D.F.M.

Harry LLOYD

Sam MATTHEWS

James MATTS

Alfred John Henry MILLIN

George MILNE

Laurence Clifford MOLLOY

G R MORRIS

Eric MOTTERSHEAD

John Platt MURPHY

C S NOONE

J W PICKUP

James Edward PRESLEY

Doris PRESTON

J PRESTON

George Malcolm REA

Eric REDSHAW

Charles Henry RICHES M.M.

William Arthur ROGERSON

John Lowe SHIERS

W H SHORT

Thomas Daine SMITH

Geoffrey TENNISON

Dennis Wilfred TREVIVIAN

John VARLEY

Leslie WARWICK

AIR RAID VICTIMS

Agnes Mary Roughton BENNISON

Kathleen Mary BENNISON

Maria BROOKS

Robert CAMPBELL

Ronald Frederick HARRISON

Fred MILLER

Nora JACKSON

J T LYDIATT

All photographs by Chris Gleave.

Werneth Low Cenotaph

On Werneth Low overlooking the town of Hyde, it commemorates the men of Hyde who died during the Great War of 1914-1919. A panel has been added to the rear remembering those fron the Second Word War. There are no names on the memorial.

THE GREAT WAR 

1914 - 1919

IN HONOUR

OF THE 710 MEN

OF HYDE WHO GAVE

THEIR LIVES FOR

KING AND COUNTRY

THEY WILLINGLY LEFT

THE UNACHIEVED PURPOSE

OF THEIR LIVES IN ORDER

THAT ALL LIFE SHOULD

NOT BE WRENCHED

FROM ITS PURPOSE

IN MEMORY OF

THE MEN AND WOMEN OF HYDE

WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR

1939 - 1945

There is a small garden of remembrance in the car park at the Higham Lane entrance to the Country Park

LEST WE FORGET

In this place of peace....

reflect on the wars that have brought such sorrow

remember those who died

those who suffer those who mourn

We inherit the benefits of such sacrifice

may we be thankful

an our lives work for justice and peace

HYDE WAR MEMORIAL TRUST

remembering the Great War World War II and all conflicts

All photographs by Chris Gleave

High Lane War Memorial

High Lane's War Memorial is situated near St.Thomas's Church on the A6. There are 30 names of those who fell in the Great War, four from the Second World War and two more from enemy action in 1946.

The main inscription reads.

IN

GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF

THE MEN WHO AT THE CALL OF DUTY

WENT FROM THE PARISH OF HIGH LANE

TO THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 - 1919 AND

FOUGHT IN DEFENCE OF LIBERTY & RIGHT.

RECORDED UPON THIS CROSS

ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1920

ARE THE NAMES OF 30 MEN

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES.

ALSO 1939-1945

"Greater love hath no man than this

that a man lay down his life

for his friends"

The men Commemorated.

Ernest BENNETT D C M

Josiah BENNETT

Ernest BRADBURY

Allen BROOM

Clarence BYROM

Harold COOPER

William COOPER

Arthur John FARMER

Albert FERNS

Fred GARDINER

William GODDARD

Norman GREAVES

Wilfred GREENWOOD

John William HALLAM

Herbert HALLWORTH

John William HALLWORTH

Thomas HALLWORTH

Jack HARDY

James William HAYES

Joseph HOLLAND

Egbert MACKERETH

James Walter MILLER

Alan NORBURY

Charles R H ORFORD

Samuel PLATT

Thomas PLATT

Stanley RIDGWAY

Leonard ROBINSON

Stanley WARBURTON

Thomas George Ferguson WARNER M M

Sydney WILLSHAW

1939-1945

Jack NIXSON

Joseph PICKFORD

Thomas Rodie RIDDELL

Gordon John SINGLETON

1946 AS A RESULT
OF ENEMY ACTION
William DAVIES
Ronald MORRIS

Behind on three panels are those men who returned from the First World War.

All photos by Chris Gleave