War Memorial, Thurstaston, Cheshire.

War Memorial, Thurstaston, Cheshire.

Location
In front of St Bartholomew's Church, Thurstaston, Cheshire.
(In Merseyside since the 1974 county boundary change).

Description
A stone obelisk. The names of those of the area who lost their lives in the two world wars are engraved on the base.

Inscription

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918.
Thomas BAKER
Fred CARR, MM
Charles FAIRBANKS
Edwin LESTER
Frank LESTER, VC
William Lee MADDOCK

"Their name liveth for evermore."

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AND THOSE WHO FELL IN THE
SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
Harry R BENTLEY
Frank ATKISS
Wilfred CARR
Robert CHRISTIE
Cyril FAIRCLOUGH
Alan John GRIFFITHS
Thomas Derek JONES
Eric LARNER
William NUGENT
Frank PEERS
Joseph ROBERTS
John Donald WATT
George Leslie SPARKES

War Memorial, Thurstaston, Cheshire.

Note

It is unusual for a memorial to show more men falling in WW2 than in WW1 but this reflects the expansion of the Village of Irby in the 1920s and 1930s. Carl's Cam