Thursday 9 October 2014

Barnsley Regent Street Congregational Church Memorial

Memorial plaque from Regent Street Church, now on display at Farrar Street Church
(photo taken 8 October 2014)
Links:

War Memorials Register listing
 

War Memorials Online listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Transcribed and photographed by Pete Schofield


Archival research by Barnsley Historian

Barnsley Archives A/163/2/N
The First World War plaque and Memorial Windows were unveiled during the morning service on 19 December 1920 by the Rev. J. Wilson.  The souvenir programme (shown right from Barnsley Archives) notes that 130 men from the Congregation "went forth to defend their Country".

The Second World War panel was added to the bottom of the original plaque in 1951 and the total cost of this addition covered by a church member.

The plaque was saved when the church on Regent Street was demolished in the 1960s and now on display in the Congregational Church on Farrar Street, Barnsley.

Inscription:
The men of this Church who gave their lives for us in the Great War

[names]
"If we die with Him"   "We shall also live with Him"

Names:
Where further information on a name has been researched by our volunteers it will be linked here  (look for the names in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.

1914 - 1919

George J. Williams
Chas. Heppinstall
George White
Harry White

Arthur White
Lawrence Illingworth
Ernest South
Farquhar M. Nicholson
Benj. W. Gaunt
Albert Scorah
John R. Stocks
John H. England
Alex McLeish
Archie Cliffe
Frank Sumnell
Gilbert Edwards
William Berry
Harry Greenoff
Edgar R. Cooper
Harold Tetlow
Ernest Jones (James Ernest Jones)
Isaac Evans
George Cummings
Arthur Shearman
Ernest Sennitt
Sam Smith


1939 - 1945

John Bird
Roy Titley




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