Memorial

John Mackintosh Ltd - WW1

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Current Location

Rowntree Mackintosh HQ, Bailey Hall Road, Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX3 9XT, England

SE 09838 24900

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 2600
Description: Nowy-headed stone tablet. Incised names and inscription. Now set on purpose-built block outside offices of Rowntree Mackintosh. Relief of laurel wreath top centre. Patterned border along top.
Inscription: IN HONOUR OF MEMBERS OF THE STAFF OF MESSERS JOHN MACKINTOSH & SONS LTD WHO RALLIED TO THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (NAMES)

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 160
Served: 135
Died: 25
Information shown: surname, initials
Order of names: surname
Additional Information: The memorial lists 24 dead but further research by Hornshaw and Fowler (see References) revealed that one of the names, J Binns, who is listed as having survived had, in fact, been killed.

Maintenance History: Original site, Albion Mill, demolished by Nestle in 1995, but tablet extensively restored and mounted outside new building

Unveiled

April 1923

Sir Harold Armitage and local dignitary

Tablet

Height: 1200mm

Width: 1370mm

Made from: Granite

Condition: Good

Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 222