Fell and Rock Climbing Club: 42 page booklet, produced by the club in August 2014, contains details of the memorial and the casualties (available from the club and the Armitt Museum)

FRCC Journal 1922-1924 pages 365-368: includes a detailed map of the land that comprised part of the memorial scheme (copy held at Armitt Library)

Letter from the National Trust 2nd January 1996: ;"In 1923 the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District presented the National Trust with 1,184 acres of fells and mountain peaks above 1,500ft in two groups north and south of Styhead Pass, as a war memorial to those of its members who had lost their lives. The gift included the summits of Kirk Fell, Great Gable Green Gable, Base Brown, Brandreth, Lingmell, Great End, Allen Crags, Glaramara and Seathwaite Fell. The club's fallen included Siegfried Herford, a leading light of British mountaineering, who was killed in the trenches of Flanders aged 24'.

T&A. Friday, November 6,1992 pg 29 'Peak tribute to fallen climbers'

THIS ENGLAND, Winter 2000 'Silent and Bareheaded in the summit mists'

Fell and Rock Climbing Club Guide to the Lake District, Reference Section, pg 213 The Gable Memorial

External website: The North-East at War; Commemorating the Centenary of the First World War: reported on 23/10/2013: 'Engineers tackle one of England’s highest mountains to restore memorial. ROYAL Engineers based in North Yorkshire scaled one of England’s highest mountains to ensure a memorial to heroes of the First World War was restored to its proper place. The team from RAF Leeming, near Bedale, climbed almost 3,000 feet up Great Gable in the Lake District carrying a 70 kilogram brass plaque paying tribute to members of the Lake District fell and rock climbing club who died while fighting in the Great War. The plaque is well known among climbers and walkers, with thousands stopping to pay their own tributes to the fallen men over the years. Spelling mistakes had recently been identified in the original plaque, which was put up in 1924 and current members of the climbing club decided to commission a replica ready for the Centenary of the War next year. They called on the team from Leeming, known as the Deputy Commander Royal Engineers (DCRE) which is responsible for infrastructure work. After bringing the original plaque down the mountain they have just returned to put up the new one in time for Remembrance Sunday next month. Club vice president, Peter Smith said: “We knew about the skills of the Royal Engineers because some of our members have served with them in the past. We are immensely grateful to DCRE for everything they put into the job.” Cpl Mark Dodds said a team of 15 from RAF Leeming, and 10 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers were involved. “It was hard work because there’s a lot of scree and debris underfoot, but we managed to do the whole job a lot quicker than we expected – less than five hours,” he said. “There was a good sense of achievement when it was all back up there.” To mark the event a Hawk jet from 100 Sqn, also based at RAF Leeming, provided a flypast as the group was walking back down from Great Gable. Members of DCRE are now planning to join the Fell and Rock Climbing Club for their Remembrance service on November 10'. http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/war-news/engineers-tackle-one-of-englands-highest-mountains-to-restore-memorial

North Star (Darlington) - Monday 09 June 1924 (page 5): report re the installation of the original plaque in 1924: 'MOUNTAIN TOPS WAR MEMORIAL. Climbing Club Heroes Honoured. The final touch to the Fell and Rock Climbing Club’s mountain war memorial comprises the tops of twelve mountains the Scawfell [sic] Range, in the heart of Lakeland, namely Kirk-fell, Great and Green Gables, Brandreth, Great End, Base Brown, Seathwaite Fell, Glaramara, Allen Crags, Great End, Broad Crag and Lingmell, was given yesterday, when a bronze tablet on top of the highest point - Great Gable, 3,000 feet high - was unveiled by Dr A. W. Wakefield, of Keswick, president of the club, and a member of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922. Despite heavy rain and a thick mist, a crowd of five or six hundred gathered, many in picturesque climbing garb, and including a number of women. There, shrouded in mist, they took part in a short, impressive service, the Rev J. H. Smith, Huddersfield, a member of the club, dedicating the tablet. St Bee’s School O.T.C. sounded the "Last Post.” Dr Wakefield said the spirit of unity which animated all, regardless of parties, classes, and sects, the utter self-sacrifice and disinterested service, were needed almost as much to-day as during the war. The moors and hills bred mind and muscle, character and endurance, courage and determination, and knowing those mountains inspired and developed and kept alive those qualities, they dedicated them to the nation’s free use and enjoyment. The bronze tablet, which is the work of Mr D. S. Harlow of Stockport, consists, the upper half, of a relief map of the Fells forming the memorial, and under that the following inscription and names: "In glorious and happy memory of those whose names are inscribed below, members of this club, who died for their country in the European War 1914-1918, these Felis were acquired by their fellow members and by them vested in the National Trust for the use and enjoyment of our land for all time:- J S Bainbridge, J G Bean, H S P Blair, A J Clay, J N Fletcher, W H B Gross, E Hartley, W Herford, S F Jeffcoat, E B Lees, S J Linzell, L J Oppenheimer, A J Prichard, A M Rimer, R B Sanderson, H L Slingsby, G C Turner, B H Witty, J H Whltworth, C S Worthington'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003631/19240609/005/000

The National Trust: History of Wasdale: 'Wasdale is one of the most significant valleys in the National Trust’s Lake District portfolio and it now owns and protects a number of farms and some 6,677 hectares of land. The Fell and Rock Climbing Club also donated 3,000 acres of land to the Trust, including the iconic fell of Great Gable as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War'. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/lake-district/wasdale/the-history-of-wasdale

Wikipedia: 'The summit of Great Gable is strewn with boulders and the highest point marked by a rock outcrop set with a cairn. There is a plaque set on the summit rock commemorating those members of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club who died in World War I; an annual memorial service is held here on Remembrance Sunday. The club bought 3,000 acres of land including Great Gable and donated it to the National Trust in memory of these members, and the plaque was dedicated on Whit Sunday 1924 by Geoffrey Winthrop Young in front of 500 people. The bronze memorial, weighing 70 kg, was removed on 10 July 2013 by 13 soldiers and carried down the hill via a stretcher. A replacement, with spelling errors corrected, was installed by Royal Engineers in October 2013'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gable#Summit

https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/152254