Location
In the grounds of St John the Divine's Church, Frankby, Cheshire.
(In Merseyside since the 1974
Description A sandstone obelisk engraved with the names of the men of Frankby and Greasby who died in the two world wars. Some of the engraving is worn and not easy to read. Alongside the original is a modern black marble tablet, freshly engraved with the same names sorted into alphabetic sequence. The transcription below is taken from the marble tablet.
Inscription
| Harold ATKINSON Walter ATKINSON Septimus BARLOW Frank BOOTH George I COOKE Hugh CRUTTWELL Edward DAVIES George DEVANNEY James DEVANNEY John EDWARDS Ernest HOUGHTON Richard HOUGHTON Edward HUGHES Alfred KENDRICK Thomas KENDRICK Matthew O'NEILL Ernest ROGERS Arthur SALISBURY Harold SAXON John SCOTT William SCOTT Ernest SHONE Charles L SMITH William A STALLARD Henry THOMPSON Horace WILLIAMS George T COOKE |
Thomas COOGAN James E DODD Stanley DODD George E FARDOE Stuart G FINNES James HALSALL Ralph B HARRIS William F HENDERSON Frank HUGHES Neville JENNINGS Wilfred JONES John C KINSGLEY-SMITH Richard A LEWIS Ernest MARRIOTT Desmond N MURPHY Ronald MURPHY Charles POVALL Albert SHONE John E TALBOT |
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They shall not grow 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, |
