© Susan Eldridge May 2002

Location:           This cross stands just inside the Catholic cemetery of All Souls, Wheatley Lane Rd, Barrowford

OS ref:  103 SD845390

The words read:

OUR ONLY HOPE

JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS

FOR US ALL

MOTHER OF SORROWS PRAY FOR US

ALMIGHTY LORD GOD

GRANT TO OUR FALLEN HEROES

ETERNAL REST

TO OUR WOUNDED DUE RECOMPENSE

TO OUR COUNTRY PEACE AND PROGRESS

and on the reverse

"LE YAITE  WHITE CROSS"  1557. AT THE

CATHOLIC ACADEMY, HARGREAVE

A SUGGESTIVE IDEA TO DOUAY COLLEGE

WHICH SAVED THE CATHOLIC FAITH

Originally this cross was built on a wall in Macleod St, Nelson between  St Josephs Church and Presbytery and was next to an elaborate memorial described as a ".Sacred Heart Peace Thanksgiving Memorial"

This memorial was unveiled in 1919 by Alderman J. Rickard, Mayor of Nelson, during the town's peace celebrations.

St Josephs was destroyed by fire in 1965 and the cross is all that remains.

For photo and details of original memorial see "Nelson Leader"  17 April 1919,  page 3   on microfilm in Nelson Library (I have a print out)

Below is a list of the men killed who have been associated with St Josephs Independent branch missions:

St Joseph's & St George's (46)

ANDERSON Joseph  31

ANDERSON Oliver  24

ASHTON Anthony  28 m 1c

ASHTON Joseph  24

BOND Richard  20

BOND Walter  25

BOWLING James Wm  30 m 2c

BROWN John  34 w

CABRY James  38

CASEY Charles 37 m 2c

CHEW Frederick    24

CORCORAN James  28

CROSSTHWAITE Henry A  37 m 2c

DARWEN Robert  19

DOBSON Bernard  23

DOBSON Louis  20

DUGGEN Joseph  30

FINNIGAN Joseph  21

GILLETT John  28

GOLDEN Francis  22

GRIBBLE Harold  19

HALLIGAN Thomas  ? m 2c

HAMMETT Thomas  31

HARTLEY Harold  17

HARRAGAN Wm Patrick  35 m 3c

MADDEN John C  50 m 4c

McGIVENEY Philip  31

McNICHOLAS William  29

MELLING John  29

METTERS Wilfred  24

MURPHY Victor H T  31

NORMAN John  26

O'CONNOR Martin  23

O'BRIEN Denis  22 m

O'SULLIVAN David  31 m

PHILLIPS George  20

POPE Francis  31 m 1c

RILEY James  30

ROBINSON Henry  22y

ROBINSON William  18

RYAN John  33

SLATER William  33 m

SUTTON William A  18

SMITH William Hy  18

THOMAS Cuthbert  18

TOOLE George  21

WALKER Joseph Wm  25

WILSON John  20

WOODS Thomas Hy  34 m

Holy Saviour's, Nelson (23)

CATTERALL Henry  22

CATTERALL Richard  32

BARNES John  32 m 2c

BROWN Joshua  21

FRENCH John  30 m 2c

FOY Thomas  22

FOY Henry  19

GAYNOR Joseph  43

HOPKINGSON William  21

HANLEY Luke  25 m 3c

HEADLAM Leo  19

HESKETH John  23

LONSDALE Thomas  29

MAYOR John  21

NICHOLSON William  29

NICHOLSON Thomas  24

RAY John  36 m 3c

RYAN John  23 m

ROGERSON William  27

SWEENEY John Hy  27

TURNER Henry  21

TANSEY John C  30 m 2c

WILCOCK Frederick  21

Holy Trinity, Brierfield (22)

BURKE James  31 m 5c

BURROWS James  32 m 2c

CONROY Denis  ?

CARSON Julius  39 m

FLYNN James  35

GRIMSHAW Frederick  ?

HALL Charles  35 m 1c

HOWLEY James  23

HOLDEN William  28

HOYLE James  26 m

MANLEY Herbert  22

McCLEARY William  24

McLELLON Robert  22

NORTON Charles  35

O'SULLIVAN Daniel  26 m 2c

PRESTON John  28

SHUTT James  31 m 2c

STEPHENSON John  35

STEPHENSON Robert  28

STEPHENSON Edward  22

SHANLEY Francis 28

TIPPING Richard  41 m 3c

SS Peter & Paul's,  Barrowford (10)

DUCKWORTH James  18

HOLDEN Joseph  28 m 2c

JAMES George Edw  41 m 4c

LOMAX Ernest  24

McGINTY Joseph  21

NICHOLSON Frederick  32 m 2c

POLDING Thomas  25

STINCHION Patrick A  22

TARNEY  Patrick  28 m 1c

WALSH Patrick  26