Location:   Rawtenstall  Cemetery                                                          

OS ref: 103  SD 810 240

Date:  September 1915,  unveiled by Miss Carrie Whitehead

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF RAWTENSTALL

WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 - 1918

HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY AND THE

LORD GOD WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM OFF THEIR FACES.

THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY CARRIE WHITEHEAD

SEPT 1915

THAT IT MIGHT BE SOME COMFORT TO THOSE

WHO LOST MEN VERY DEAR TO THEM

The memorial was erected 13 months after the outbreak of war with 9 names on it, and was added to throughout the war.

There are a total of 332 names from the two central wards of Rawtenstall on the memorial

The names will be added to this site later.