HAPTON

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                

Location: Next to the school on Manchester Road, Hapton.

 

OS ref: 103  SD79 3317

 

Date: 23rd February 1921, unveiled by Lieut. Col. G.G.H. Bolton

 

 

The wording reads:

 

1914 - 1919

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS TOWNSHIP

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

 

"THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"

 

 

 

There are 52 names on the memorial arranged by Regiment, the list is headed by Sgt W Ward who received the Military Medal, also recorded is Private William Stephenson of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who was one of 39 local men to drown when the SS Royal Edward was torpedoed in the Dardanelles in July 1915.

 

There are 11 names from World War Two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R.F.A

 

 

 

 

 

 

R.G.A

 

L.N.Lanc. R.

 

 

K.O.R.L. R

 

 

Lanc. Fus.

 

Royal Fus.

R. Dublin Fus.

Ches. R.

E.Surrey R.

Sherwood For.

Shrops. L.I.

R.A.M.C.

 

New Zealand R.B.

K.R. Rifles

Norfolk R.

Ches. R.

RAF

 

Srgt.    W. WARD M.M.

Bomb. W. BILLINGTON

   "       H. GREGSON

Gnr. J BRADBURN

 "      E. LATHOM

 "      J.TODD

 "      H.C. TWOSE

 "      H.J. PITCHER

 "      W.J. MILLER

Pte   S.C. LOXHAM

 "      R. PATE

 "      A. SIMPSON

Pte   H. COULTHURST

 "      G. HUDSON

 "       J. HUDSON

Pte   J.KELLY

 "      R. LOCKWOOD

Pte R. CLAYTON

 "    A. NEARY

 "    W. CHILDS

 "     F. WARD

 "     F.E. NUTTER

 "     H. KERRIDGE

 "     G.H. BRIGHT

 "    W. STEVENSON

Rflmn H. PARKINSON

 "      T.H. WINGHAM

Srgt. C. WALSH

LCpl. T.W. COLE

Lieut. J. HARRISON

 

East Lanc. R.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S. Lanc. R.

W. Yorks. R.

 

K. Liverpl R.

Border R.

S.W. Border

 

Royal Berks.

29th Field Art.

US Army

 

Srgt. A. HOOK

Cpl. R. LANGHAM

LCpl. C. BRADBURN

  "       J.W. PRENDERGAST

Pte J.T. BLADES

 "    R. DICKENSON

 "    J. DURKIN

 "    J. FLOYD

 "    T.H. LAKELAND

 "    A. LOCKWOOD

 "    J. LEWIS

 "    H. PILKINGTON

 "    C.C. WILDMAN

Pte R.H. HOLLIS

Pte J.J. LAWLESS

 "    H. MULDOON

Pte E. WHITTAKER

 "    J.W. HODGSON

Sec. Lieut. D.C. MASON

Pte T. SHAKESHAFT

Sec. Lieut. N.C. CLAYTON

Cpl. F. LANGHAM

 

 

 

 

HMS Foxglove

!3th Hussars

R.A

 

 

Recnse Corps

Dorset R.

RAF

1939 - 1945

 

A.B.   H. JONES

Sgt     R. COWARD

Gnr    W.H. BOOTHMAN

  "        J. LUPTON

  "        J.W. LORD

Tpr     E. MATES

Pte      R. WOODALL

Sgt      N. WADE

  "        D.H. KERR

Cpl     J. JONES  B.E.M.

Lac     H. HAMER

                        

 

 

 

Information about those from WW1 can be found on the following site:            http://www.burnleygallantry.co.uk/haptonwarmemorial/index.htm

 

 

 

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