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The outside of St Thomas's;
The inside of St Thomas's;
The stained glass at St Thomas's.
On one wall of the church is a memorial reading:
"This tablet is erected in grateful and loving memory of the above named
men of St Thomas's church and parish who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914-1919"
Beneath it is a Votive Candle stand where those who wish to may light a candle for someone who is ill or in need, or to mark an anniversary.
The nearby Memorial Book contains names of former parishioners and worshippers who are remembered in the prayers on their anniversary, every year.
The names listed in the four panels of the war memorial are:
Charles Adams
Fred Adams
Walter Barnet
Walter Birchenough
Stephen Blackshaw
William D Blackshaw
Frederick Brady
James Briggs
James Broadhurst
John T Brocklehurst
Henry Brown
Harry C Buckland
Edward Burgess
Ernest Clarke
Frank Corlett
James Cumston
Joseph Davenport
John Davies
William Donbavand
John Edward Dudley
Henry Edge
Vincent Fletcher
Joseph Barlow
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Joseph Fox
Harold Garner
William Garner
Ernest Gibson
Frank Gorst
Edwin Gray
William Greenhalgh
George Kinsey Gresty
William Thomas Hague
Herbert Hamer
John Harrison
William Hayes
John Hester
John Holmes
Herbert Hooley
Sidney Hulme
Charles Jackson
Joshua Jackson
William Jackson
Arthur Jordan
Alfred Kaye
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George Kinder
Edward Kirkpatrick
Samuel Knowles
Francis Knight
Neville Lewis
Joseph Littlewood
John Taylor Lomax
George Ludlow
Henry Marsden
George Mather
Joseph Mather
Thomas Blackshaw Mather
Alfred Moore
Henry Moore
John William Mott
George Mottram
Frederick Oldham
William Oldham
John Pearson
Davenport Pennington
George Potts
Percy Pratt
William McCarthy
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Frederick Pyott
Henry Salt
John Joshua Savage
William Edward Shepherdson
Gerald Slack
Ernest Smith
Isaac Smith
George Southam
Frederick Swain
Alfred Thorley
John Thorley
Mark Thorley
Walter Thorley
Harold G Townley
Robert Travis
Robert Arthur Walley
Edmund Ward
Richard Waterfield
Frank Watts
Charles Wilkinson
Charles Williamson
George Wilson
Visit the Church website for more information on St Thomas's.
A contribution to Inspired Sundays.
Gerald, The list of names is much too long. Tom The Backroads Traveller
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tom. Such a shame and tragedy.
ReplyDeleteMersad
Mersad Donko Photography
So many names. An entire generation of that church's men.
ReplyDeleteIt's always so sobering to think about all the lives that were lost in the "Great War".
ReplyDeleteSo good to remember them!
ReplyDeleteI always find it sad to see these in all the churchs I visit, it shows what we lost. What I find sadder is that the men are just from that parish
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely war memorial. I was surprised when I wrote one of my post on WWI that there were 3600 war memorials in France – one in almost every town and villages. But considering that France suffered 1,400,000 casualties in WWI I guess this is the reason.
ReplyDeleteI looked at your past photos and I really enjoyed them – like a walk in a part of England.