Memorial

Audenshaw

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Current Location

Main entrance, Audenshaw Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Audenshaw, Tameside, Greater Manchester, M34 5AH, England

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SJ 92800 96521

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Serviceman / Servicewoman
WMR Reference Number: 3267
Description: Bronze soldier standing at ease with rifle on top of square column and plinth. WW1 dead named on four tablets on column and WW2 dead on four tablets on plinth.
Inscription: 6 o'clock face: IN MEMORIAM/ IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF AUDENSHAW 1920/ (Names) 3 o'clock face: IN MEMORIAM/THEIR BRIGHT SPIRITS STILL TENANT THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED THEM/ VICTORY/ (Names) 12 o'clock face: IN MEMORIAM/THEY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MAN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE/ PEACE/ (Names) On the top step on each face: 1939-1945/[names] 9 o'clock face: IN MEMORIAM/LET THOSE WHO CARE SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN/ LIBERTY/ (Names)

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 158
Died: 158
Information shown: Surname, forename, decorations
Order of names: surname

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 61
Died: 61
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of names: surname

History

Maker(s): Percy George Bentham ARBS, Sculptor
E Hewitt and Sons of Dukinfield, Builder
Sponsor Type: public

Ceremonies

Unveiled

27 November 1920

Councillor W Richardson; Austin Hopkinson

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