Location
Memorial Park, in the centre of Marple, Cheshire.
(In Stockport, Greater Manchester, since the 1974
Description
A column supporting a statue.
The column bears the names of those of Marple who fell in the two world wars.
Inscription
THIS LAND WAS GIVEN BY THE
CARVER AND BARLOW FAMILIES OF THIS PARISH
IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF MARPLE
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918,
AND THE LAYING OUT WAS
DONE BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION.
Herbert ADSHEAD John ARCHER Joseph ARDERN Robert ASHTON Fred ATKINSON Leonard AUSTIN William AUSTIN Geoffrey H BAGSHAWE Harold C BARLOW William BARNES Colin BARTON Carlos C BATES Joseph BELL Ernest BENNETT D.C.M. Joseph BENNETT Josiah BENNETT Thomas BENNETT John T BOOTH Joseph BOOTH Ernest BRADBURY Joe BRADDOCK Frank BRADWELL G Bowden BROCKLEHURST Sidney J BROCKLEHURST Allan BROOM John BROWN Donald H BUDENBERG Joseph BURRELL Harold M BURTON Clarence BYROM Basil A CARVER Oswald A CARVER W Herbert CHANEY Harold COOKE Harold COOPER William COOPER A Gordon CRESSWELL Frank T DAWSON Robert G DAWSON William DEAN Robert C DIXON Joseph DUDDY James DUXBURY William DUXBURY John EUSTACE Arthur J FARMER James FERNLEY Albert FERNS George FIELDING Walter FLETCHER Walter FLINT Charles FORTH Edward W FOWLER Harry FROST Fred GARDINER William GODDARD Norman GREAVES Ernest GREENHALGH Wilfred GREENWOOD Joseph HAGUE Dennis HALL John W HALLAM Herbert HALLWORTH John W HALLWORTH Thomas HALLWORTH John HAMPSON Jack HARDY Frank HARGRAVES Bernard H HARTLEY | John W HAYES Joseph HOLLAND Arthur HOOLE Fred HOPWOOD Walter HOPWOOD J Leslie HOWARD Charles Henry INGHAM F E BRADSHAW-ISHERWOOD J Edward JACK Cyril B JOHNSON James KERSHAW William LEIGH Fred LLOYD Roland MATHER Egbert MackBETH Joseph McDERMOTT Donald McLAINE Benjamin MILLER George W MILLER Alec MORGAN Burt MORRIS Edward MYCOCK Oswald NEAL Alan NORBURY Charles R H ORFORD Benjamin PHILIPS George PHILIPS Fred PICKFORD Raymond PICKFORD M.M. Horace PLATT Samuel PLATT Thomas PLATT Stanley PROCTOR Arthur RHODES Stanley RIDGWAY Fred RILEY Leonard ROBINSON J Everatt SHARPLES Norman SHARPLES Kenneth SINCLAIR Charles E SLATER Bertram SMITH Richard SPEAKMAN W Arthur STOTT Alfred SUTTON Harry SYLVESTER C Frederick TAYLOR Granville TAYLOR William K TAYLOR John TEFT Frederick THELWALL Samuel THELWALL Arthur M TOMLINSON David TOTTERDELL Ernest H TRUST Raymond WALTER Stanley WARBURTON William E WARD Thomas G F WARNER M.M. John S Collings WELLS V.C. D.S.O. Sidney WILLSHAW Walter C WOODCOCK Henry WOODHOUSE Thomas WRAY Edward YARWOOD Richard YARWOOD Edmund Turner YOUNG Malcolm H YOUNG | |
------------ 1939 - 1945 | ||
William BASNETT Cyril BEARD Anthony G BIRD D.F.C. and Bar Ronald M BLEAKLEY Godfrey BRIDGE Roland BROWN David CLARKE William COCKS Stanley DIXON Frank DOWNS Albert W GIBSON Thomas E GREEN Anthony G HAMMAN George HAYNE John HAZELHURST Alan HIGGINBOTHAM James HOLLAND Samuel KIRK Thomas LONGDEN Donald McMILLAN Peter MacNAB Charles L A MALLETT Ernest P MESSENGER | Leslie J MYCOCK Frank K NIELD Edwin OLDHAM John C PARROTT Harry PICKFORD Donald RICHARDS John J RIDINGS Fred PORCHER Leonard ROBINSON Kenneth SHAW Cyril A SHELDON William SHUTTLEWORTH Thomas SKELLERN Robert SMITH James H SOWERBY William TAYLOR Harold P TEW Harold F TYRRELL John WALKER George WHALLEY Gordon A C WILSON Thomas WOOD Alfred HEATH |
Note
Captain Oswald Armitage CARVER of the Royal Engineers named on this and the Holmes Chapel war memorials left a widow Elizabeth A N CARVER.
After 12 years a widow she re-married, this time to Brigadier Bernard Law Montgomery.
She died in 1937, before Montgomery's promotion to Field-Marshal.