War Memorial, Kemsley Newspapers, Manchester.

War Memorial, Kemsley Newspapers, Manchester.

Location

Withy Grove and Corporation Street, Manchester, Lancashire. In the entrance to "The Printworks", once a newspaper press now a shopping mall and leisure centre.

Description

A brass plaque naming the employees of Kemsley Newspapers who fell in the second world war. The plaque stands alongside a similar plaque naming those of the Hulton Press who fell in the first world war.

Inscription

ROLL OF HONOUR
1939 - 1945
TO THE GLORIOUS AND UNDYING
MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS
OF THE STAFF OF
KEMSLEY NEWSPAPERS Ltd
MANCHESTER OFFICE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY.

Name      

BARLOW S
CHADWICK J
RAMSAY E
BURROWS T
COPE H
DALE J
RATTRAY A
BARKER T H
RADCLIFFE H
CLEATON J B S
READ M
JOWETT L
LANGFORD J C
LEAHY J S
LOWEY W H
BURGESS C
CLAYTON G

Department

Accounts
"
"
Publishing
"
"
"
Composing
"
Linotype
"
Stereo
"
"
"
Machine
"

Name        

DIXON A
NAYLOR E
THURSTING A
DAVIES W
RISBY J
BEAUMONT A W
BRADSHAW A N
HEWITT J
KEDIE R
QUINN J
CARPENTER A
DAWSON A G
EVERATT G H
HOWARD A C
TEE A W
VICKERS G H
WOODHEAD B
ROBINSON J J

Department

Machine
"
"
Maintenance
"
Circulation
Transport
"
"
"
Editorial
"
"
"
"
"
"
"

BRANCH OFFICES
DODSON G D
Stoke-on-Trent
LORD A
Wigan
WILLIAMS I
Liverpool
RIMMER F W
Southport

THEY HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT : THEY HAVE FINISHED
THEIR COURSE : THEY HAVE KEPT THE FAITH

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