WW1 Memorial - Where?

[colliecuts]

Further to Joseys transcription , I can make out the following on the photograph

" THE RT HON EARL "   and  " SECRETARY OF STATE "

for me this is the animal

Al

[emmsthheight]

Hi All

 Thank You! for your input!  It seems like it's getting closer.  There's something not right here though, or something's changed.

I can't actually see a memorial on the chuch, but brilliant idea.  Have we got two memorials designed and possibly made by the same form and possibly even unveiled on the same day?

I think the one I found last night is probably the renovated and possibly altered  version of the one from Channel four.  

The one on my link of some unearthly hour last night, has almost the some plinth, and the same dedication in the same place and the saame lettering, but the names are different.  Date seems to be the same.

Could there have been one at the church by the same people?  

Or the other alternative, was there another board on the back with other names on, who also well?  William Diggle definitely died, and he is on the first one?

By the way, I'm finding this fascinating, but if anyone's got more than they bargained for, do feel free to drop out!  I'm starting to feel a bit guilty sitting here doing very little!


Thank you all again.

Best wishes

Emms

[emmsthheight]

Hi Al

Thank you for those pearls of wisdom.

I was trying to think of a christion name that would fit in where you've got Rt Hon.

Emms

[josey]

I think the picture on the bujold site in link in reply #42 is of the front [this also shows the repairs detailed in Annie's reply #43 - clever to find that!!!] & your pic is of another side [I suggest the left side as you look at the front with the 'To the Enduring Memory...inscription as you can see the houses behind & I can't see an inscription on th eright had side]. There seems to be an inscription in larger letters going across the top of the name columns in both your pic & the bujold one - this could say that the men were from a particular area, or another regiment, or died in a particular battle etc. So there seem to be 3 columns of names on each of at least 3 sides each in its own alphabetical order. I can't see which one has the later names though.

I live in West Yorkshire so I can see me paying a visit to see it after all this brain ache!! Ha Ha!!

Josey

[emmsthheight]

Hi Josie

Now, that looks like it could make sense!

Thank you for putting in the time to compare them.  Especially from across the Pennines!  Ironically, I put Diggle in, on the link above and got about seventeen, one of them a W Diggle.  It wasn't this one though, but he was in West Yorkshire!

I must admit, a couple of things have occured to me since this afternoo,  One thing put me off the church idea.  I've just been putting photo's etc of a local church war memorial, and there's an exhortation to prayer on the top, which of courxse there often is.  This one just has exactly the same at the top as the part of Collyhurst that we can see.

Also, the one I'm doing is mitred, whiere as the one in my photograph has parallel columns which isn't actually that usual, and it would fit with it being part of  multifaced base.

Good thinking!

Certainly there are family connections with St Patrick's Livesy Street, in that area, so it all adds up.

Now all we need is some kind person in Salford to check it out for us! - if they haven't spent too long on it already!

thank you very much, onr and all!

Best wishes

Emms

[uk2003]

Guess what --- I  found it --- It is the Collyhurst monument --- photos later

[emmsthheight]

Hi Ken

Welll done them Dancing Boys!   Well done all!

Can't wait for the photo's!

Get  back later.

Emms

Wow!  It worked!

[liverpool annie]

Woohoo !! ... wait till Josey sees .... she'll say ... I told you so !! 

Nice job you guys !! 

[celia]

seems i am a bit late but took ages

FROM THE TOP


One.     ? McDonald
two         E.? MURPHY
Four.       ?    MARTIN
Six          ? MOORE
Nine      J.W. NIXON
Eleven   J NAYLOR
Twelve   P.D Connor  but could be o’connor
Fourteen   T.D. SULLIVAN
Fifteen      I or L  OLDFIELD
16 J.P.PARRY
17   ?? PARRY
23.  P DIGBY OR RIGBY
24  D OLDMOND

Celia