WW1 Memorial tablet on the front of the pulpit (photo taken 31 August 2014) |
Links:
War Memorials Archive listing
War Memorials Online listing
Photographed and transcribed by Barnsley Historian
With grateful thanks to the congregation of the church who welcomed me at their service.
Newspaper research by BarnsleyHistorian
Inscription:
This tablet is erected in Memory of [names] of this church who made the Supreme Sacrifice during the Great War 1914-1918
Barnsley Chronicle 22 October 1921 (Thanks to Barnsley Archives) |
"A large congregation attended a Memorial Service at the Primitive Methodist Church, Buckley Street (Barnsley Second Circuit) and the unveiling of a brass tablet last Thursday in memory of the young men of the church who made the supreme sacrifice in the war." Barnsley Chronicle 22 Oct 1921
Names:
Thomas Gomersall,
John Shaw,
Thomas Briggs,
Leonard Micklethwaite,
Thomas Sawyer,
Charles L Haithwaite,
Harold Ardron,
Fred Haithwaite,
Charles Dobson,
Lawrance Atkinson,
Charles H Steele,
Joseph White,
George Walmsley,
Alwin Blackburn,
Arthur Armstrong.
BWMP #BAR08
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