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    Memorial

    Ossett

    Full frontal view

    Source: Copyright Lisa Jennings

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    Current Location

    Faces towards the frontage of the Town Hall, Market Place, Ossett, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF5, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SE 27856 20413

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    Type of Memorial
    Serviceman / Servicewoman
    WMR Reference Number
    29168
    Description
    The Memorial consists of a Creetown fine axed granite pedestal, surmounted by a bronze life-sized figure of a soldier. The pedestal stands on a wide rusticated plinth, on which wreaths and memorial tokens may be placed. There are bronze enrichments of a continuous laurel band on the pedestal, and a laurel wreath symbolic of victory above the inscription. The height of the Memorial is seventeen feet
    Inscription
    TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ THIS TOWN / WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ AND OF/ THOSE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE/ WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945 Ground level 6 O'clock centre:They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn/ At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say/ For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today LEST WE FORGET 6 O'clock left hand side: The Great War / 1914 - 1918 / (Names) Corner: Poppy carving 9 O'clock: 4 x tablets: 1914 - 1918 / (Names) Corner: Poppy carving 12 O'clock: 3 x tablets: 1914 - 1918 / (Names) Corner: Poppy carving 3 O'clock: 1 x tablets: 1914 - 1918 / (Names) 3 O'clock centre: In memory of /all those service men and women / who have served their country /at home and in foreign fields 3 O'clock left: 2 x tablets: 1939 - 1945 / (names) Corner: Poppy carving 6 O'clock right hand side: The World War / 1939 - 1945 / (names)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    315
    Died
    315
    Information shown
    Forename, Surname
    Order of names
    Surname, Forename
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    84
    Died
    84
    Information shown
    Forename, Surname
    Order of names
    Surname, Forename
    War
    Second World War - civilians
    Number Commemorated
    1
    Died
    1
    Information shown
    Forename, Surname
    Maker(s)
    • Mr H Holmes (Ossett's Borough Surveyor), Designer

    • Mr. C. Kendall, M.C., A.R.I.B.A., Architect

    • Mr. R. Lindsay Clark, R.B.S., Makers

    Sponsored By
    Wakefield MDC and private sector donations
    Maintenance History
    11 November 2018: exactly 100 years after the signing of the 1918 Armistice. 402 names were added to the Memorial and unveiled on that day by school children from Ossett schools the Royal British Legion. Sunday 10 November 2019: An additional 7 names were unveiled by the cadets in a service led by the Royal British Legion. SURVEYED BY WAKEFIELD DC, 29 APRIL 1999. SOME MINOR RECCOMENDATIONS.

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    11th November 1928

    Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lascelles KG DSO.

    Dedicated

    11th November 1928

    Vicar of Ossett (the Rev. G. O. Lewis)

    Unveiled

    11 November 2018

    Ossett schoolchildren

    Unveiled

    10 November 2019

    Ossett Cadets and the Royal British Legion

    Previous Location(s)

    • Junction of Ventnor Way and Dale Street, Ossett Market Place, Station Road,, Ossett, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF5 8AD, England

      OS Grid Reference

      SE 27851 20411

      Year of move

      2001

    • Kingsway, Ossett, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England

      Year of move

      1954

    Components

    Plinth

    Height: 5500mm


    Made from: Granite


    Condition: Good


    Figure

    Height: Lifesize

    Width: Lifesize

    Depth: Lifesize


    Made from: Bronze


    Condition: Good


    • Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 03 March 1923 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19230303/219/0007 BOROUGH OF OSSETT WAR MEMORIAL War Memorial proposed, not to exceed £2,000
    • Leeds Mercury - Monday 12 November 1928 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000748/19281112/084/0005 LORD LASCELLES MESSAGE Our Task for the Future UNVEILING OF OSSETT MEMORIAL