© Susan Eldridge June 2003

Location: The memorial is just inside the main gates to the cemetery on Rossendale Road.

OS ref: 103 SD815316

Date:  9th October 1926, unveiled by Major Gen. A. Solly-Flood

The wording at the base of the cross of sacrifice reads:

TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE SAILORS AND SOLDIERS

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

AND WHO LIE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY

Behind are 16 panels bearing the names of 173 men:                  

Information on the CWG site states that the cemetery contains the burials of 188 men from the First world War and that these panels record the names of men whose graves could not be individually marked.                    

There is also a memorial to the men of the East Lancashire Regiment who died in earlier wars.

Location:  Near the old entrance at the bottom of Cemetery Road.

© Susan Eldridge April 2005

To the memory of three officers and 180 NCOs & men 

1st East Lancashire Regiment who died at Lucknow

from 31st October 1881 to 24th February 1896

Erected by their comrades

I have found 2 other memorials in the cemetery

Hapton Colliery Disaster  1962

Spanish Air Crash  1970