Location: The memorial can be found in the castle park near the Museum, just in front of the castle.

 

OS ref: 103  SD743 417

 

In 1920 the castle and surrounding park was bought by the people of Clitheroe by subscription and declared a memorial to the men who had lost their lives in the Great War. Later a cenotaph was built in the newly created Garden of Remembrance and unveiled in 1923.

 

 

 

The wording reads:

 

ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF CLITHEROE

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR FELLOW TOWNSMEN

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

IN DEFENCE OF THEIR KING AND COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT WAR  1914  1918

 

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On the wall behind the memorial those who fell in the Boer War are remembered and one soldier killed in Northern Ireland is also remembered.

 

 

                                                                                                                                         © July 2003

 

 

THIS MEMORIAL WAS PLACES HERE BY

ALDERMAN JT WHIPP MAYOR

TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN

WHO WENT FROM THE BOROUGH OF CLITHEROE

AND LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

1899 - 1902

 

Corporal J CLITHEROE   1st Batt Coldstream Guards at Modder River    1st January 1900 Private J LUDDON   2nd Batt York & Lancaster Rgt at Cheveley    10th March 1900 Private W HUTCHINSON    2nd Batt Manchester Rgt at Bethlehem    10th February 1901 Private K THOMPSON    3rd Batt East Lancashire Rgt at Bloemfontein    17th November 1901 Private J HANSON    1st Batt East Lancashire Rgt at Bloemfontein    18th January 1902 Private C O NEILL    1st Batt East Lancashire Rgt at Springfontein    30th May 1902

 

 

 

AND THE FOLLOWING VOLUNTEERS FROM THE ST JOHNS AMBULANCE BRIGADE

 

 

Private C WALDER   Bloemfontein  7th June 1900 Private T WINDLE   Bloemfontein  15th July 1900

 

dated August 1907

 

 

 

and below the following plaque:

IN REMEMBRANCE

 

L/Cpl  David MOON

Ulster 1972