War Memorial, St Bridget's Church, West Kirby, Cheshire.

War Memorial, St Bridget's Church, West Kirby, Cheshire.

Location

St Bridget's Church, West Kirby, Cheshire.

Description

Two memorials in memory of the men of West Kirby who fell in the First World War. A stone cross in the churchyard in memory of the men, but not naming them. Marble tablets inside the church record the names.

Inscription (stone cross)

PRO DEO PRO PATRIA

TO REMEMBER
THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO
AT THE CALL OF DUTY LAID DOWN
THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919

"THESE, IN THE GLORIOUS MORNING
OF THEIR DAYS,
FOR ENGLAND'S SAKE, LOST ALL BUT
ENGLAND'S PRAISE."

"LORD, ALL PITYING, JESU BLEST
GRANT THEM THINE ETERNAL REST"


THE NAMES ARE RECORDED ON
A TABLET IN THE CHURCH

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War Memorial, St Bridget's Church, West Kirby, Cheshire.

Inscription (marble tablets)

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TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN THANKFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO, AT THE CALL OF DUTY,
SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919
AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
FOR  KING  AND  COUNTRY IN
THE    CAUSE    OF    FREEDOM
AND RIGHT
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"Eternal Rest O Lord
grant unto them &
let light perpetual
shine upon them"

APSIMON Arthur Tryweryn
ALLEN George Wordsworth
ANDREWS William James
ATHERTON Francis Wright
AITKEN John
BARNES Samuel Frank
BARLOW Septimus
BELL Wilson
BLACKBURN Eric
BUCKNALL Thomas
BIRCHILL Vivian
BIGHOUSE John
BRATTAN Arthur Crosfield
BRADLEY Richard
BENYON Charles
CHASE Alfred Bayley
CROWDER Edward Smethurst
CASSON Alfred Abraham
CASE Francis Edward
COOPER Frederick Hylton
COLLINS Sydney
CHRISTIAN John Edward
COOKE William
CLARK Herbert
DAVIES Harry
DANGERFIELD James
DAVIES James Hatton
DREAPER Reginald Charles
DICKENSON John Henry
DAVIES Joshua
DAWSON Thomas
DAVIES William Henry
DODIMEAD Tom
EVANS James Collingwood
EVANS George
EMERSON Leonard George
FROST Evelyn Fairfax Meadows
FLETCHER Richard
GOODWIN Ernest Robert
GONNER Edward Dermot L
GRISDALE Edward
GREGG George Philip
HALL Walter
HERRON Alec Rowan
HENSHAW Albert
HENSHAW Arthur James
HATTON Alfred
HATTON William
HATTON Oliver
HATTON John
HARTNESS David
HILL Ernest
HAUGHTON Ernest
HAUGHTON Richard Edward
HARRIS George James
HOULDSWORTH George
HALLOWS Joseph
HALLOWS Robert
HINDE Kenneth
HEAL Reginald
HEAL Sidney
HIND William Spencer
HOLLOWELL Francis John
JOHNSTONE William Joseph
JOHNSTONE Walter
JOHNSTONE William Benjamin

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KERSHAW Charles E
KELLY Ernest James
KNIVETON John Kenneth
KING Lionel Richard Thacker
KING Sydney Wm Thacker
LALLY Alfred Ernest
LALLY Arthur
LEWIS William Owen
LEECH Horrocks William
LANCASTER Reginald
LANCASTER Percy
LYON Thomas Henry
LUNT Thomas
MONTEATH Frank
McAFEE Lewis Alexander
MARPLES William Henry Noël
MOSS Maurice Edgar
MORRIS Harold
MAYHEW Frederick Edwin
NORMAN James Rainford
OWEN Arthur Luston
O'NIEL Arthur
OWEN Percy Reginald
OWEN Robert Rice
POSTON Percy James
PRYTHERCH Edwin
POORE Frederick Poyntz
PORTER Harold Morris
PORTER John Edward
POWNALL Arthur Thomas
POWNALL James
POWNALL John Alfred
PARKINSON John
PRITCHARD Thomas Harry
QUILLIAM John Henry
ROOKE Claude Eugene
ROOKE Henry Clive
RAILTON Edward
ROWLAND Harry Clyde
RUSSELL John
RILEY Walter
SCHOLEFIELD Arthur Hoyle
SHERRATT George Edward
SPENCER Herbert
SMITH John
SMITH Samuel
SIMISTER Reginald
SIMPELL William Mathias
STOTT Basil
THOMPSON Arthur
TEANBY Ernest
THOMAS George Sydney
VAN GRUISEN Nicholas Albert Rog
WALLWORTH Clement Robert C
WILKINSON Frederick
WHELAN Herbert James
WALKER Harry
WILLIAMS Herbert Litton
WALL Leonard Comer
WARING William
WEBSTER William
WEST Thomas Edwin
WATERS Richard

War Memorial, St Bridget's Church, West Kirby, Cheshire.

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