©  Susan Eldridge November 2005

Location:                                                              

The War Memorial is in Memorial Park, Church Lane, Great Harwood

The land for the park was given to the council by James Boardman, William Pickup and Henry Milton Thompson in 1920. Later it was decided it would be a suitable location for the War Memorial.

OS ref: 103  SD735 331

Date:  The memorial was unveiled on 2nd October 1926 by Major General Sir Neil Malcolm, K.C.B., D.S.O., and  Mrs. Ormerod of Great Harwood who had lost three sons in the war.

TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

1914   1918

AND

1939   1940

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN

THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

WW1 names

WW2 names

MALAYA

1948 - 1960

CLARK RA

KOREA

1950 - 1953

LIVELY J A

FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN

1982

MARSDEN B