- Type of Memorial
- Cenotaph
- WMR Reference Number
- 22194
- Description
- Large, square column set on a paved traffic island and approached up three steps on all sides. The column has several stages to it and is surmounted by a bronze figure of a Tommy of the West Yorkshire Regiment. The commemorations are on the four faces of the column, carved in black lettering: there is a wreath at the top of each of these four sides. The names of the fallen are on metal plaques near the base of the memorial and are in raised lettering. The WW1 names are on four, square plaques each with three columns of names, but there is also a smaller plaque carrying eight additional names on the eastern side: the WW2 names are on three rectangular plaques, mounted vertically and each carrying a single column of names. There is also a modern board, unveiled in 2018, which carries a further WW1 100 names (and their ranks and service numbers) that by then had been discovered to have been omitted: as of 13th July, 2025 the Pudseycenotaph.com website (see References) carries more names from both conflicts which are not on the memorial but which may one day be.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock Face - THIS MONUMENT/ COMMEMORATES/ THE NAMES OF THE/ MEN OF PUDSEY/ WHOSE LIVES/ WERE SACRIFICED/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919,/ AND IN THE WAR/ 1939-1945.
3 o'clock face - GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR/ HIS FRIENDS
12 o'clock face - ERECTED ON THE SITE OF THE ANCIENT CHAPEL OF EASE OF ALL SAINTS WHICH WAS TAKEN DOWN IN 1879 (Line breaks unknown)
9 o'clock face - LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES ARE NOT FORGOTTEN (Line breaks unknown)
On the modern, 2018 additional WW1 memorial - PUDSEY CENOTAPH/ THE MISSING NAMES/ Pudsey & Farsley Royal British Legion Branch (in partnership with Pudsey & District Civic Society) have researched the complete set of Pudsey/ Cenotaph names from the First World War - the aim being to properly identify each person. During this project they identified many eligible people that were missing from the original Memorial Inscription List./ The names on our Cenotaph have never been a complete group representing all of the people from the district who were lost during The First World War, some names were/ accidentally omitted from this fine and fitting monument. This Roll of Honour now recognises these 'missing names', whose efforts and/ sacrifices should never be forgotten.'/ [Names]/ LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN
