War Memorial, Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port.

War Memorial, Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port.

Location

In the recreation field at the rear of the Royal British Legion club, Ellsemere Port, Cheshire.

Description

A memorial naming workers of the Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port, who fell in the first world war. The memorial is in cast metal, but I'm not sure which metal. I wonder if it was cast in the Mersey Iron Works?

Inscription

BELOW ARE  RECORDED THE  NAMES
OF THOSE WORKERS AT THE MERSEY
IRON    WORKS     ELLESMERE    PORT
WHO   FELL    IN    THE   GREAT    WAR

George SMITH
William Edward HUGHES
Joseph PARKER
Charles SANDLAND
Edward CORNES
William KING
Thomas COOPER
Henry GRIFFITHS
Thomas John WORRALL
Joseph JOHNSON
John GWILT
William RICHARDS
Arthur Francis COBBE
Alfred ADUS
John ROBERTS
R H LLOYD
E JONES
Ernest NASH
Jesse HOWELL
George ELLWELL
William BURROWS
John Henry WOLVERSON
George LINE
John PERRINS
George HARPER
Robert TAYLOR
Thomas PATTIN
Terence HADDOCK
Leonard FRANCE, MM
Thomas DAVIES
Leonard James WALL
John ROWLANDS
George SPICER
William PATTIN
Frederick VENABLES
J T HOWELL
Alfred TUNSTALL
Albert LILLEY
John DACEY
George WRIGHT
Frederick ADEY
Harold WILKINSON
William CAVENNY
William POLLARD
Thomas James DAVIES
William ROBERTS
William HADLEY
William Henry LOVELESS
Enoch PACE
Samuel Charles ICKE
Joseph HICKMAN
William Arthur PHILLIPS
Robert THOMAS
William TITLEY
John LARGE
John TAYLOR
Joseph JONES
Henry HILL
Sidney RILEY
William FRANCIS
Francis B CATTERMOLE
Charles FIFE
Samuel TAYLOR
Edward Samson JARVIS

1914 "GREATER   LOVE   HATH    NO   MAN    THAN   THIS,
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
1918
St John XV

War Memorial, Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port.

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